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STEAMBOAT ZAGREB CITY

Mayor of Sesvete and public representative of Dugo Selo Marko Mileusnić ordered from Vienna a small petroleum steamboat 8 meters long with an awning. Steamboat was named Zagreb City. On September 14, 1892 steamboat was christened and the godfather was city senator Đuro Deželić. The same day steamboat sailed down first Maksimir lake. The starting point of the steamboat was on the west banks of the first Maksimir lake, near Echo pavilion. Sailing direction was around the island and back to the starting point. Steamboat was a big attraction for the visitors of Park Maksimir, which visited it in large numbers, and especially after September 1891 when Zagreb got its first horse tram known under the name Konjka (konj = horse). Tram circulated from the terminal in Marija Valerija street (today Praška) to the inn in Maksimir (almost opposite of the main entrance /portal/ of Park Maksimir). Unfortunately, financial construction was the reason why the steamboat did not sail very long down Maksimir's lakes. It sailed only on Sundays, often had repairs, machinist had to be paid – those were all the reasons why the steamboat disappeared from the first lake in Park Maksimir for good.

/ Steamboat Zagreb City on the first lake, source: photo I. Standl from 1895 /