The Srijem County Palace

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Its construction lasted six years (1771-1777), and the palace bears traces of late Baroque, with lavish plaster decorations on its façade. In the middle of the high tympanum, there is the emblem of Srijem county, which was awarded to the town of Vukovar by the Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa in 1747. The palace is linked to the former district authority palace (1889-1902), and its yard also contained a late-Baroque convicts’ chapel, where those sentenced to death could confess their sins before their execution. This complex is registered as a cultural monument of the highest category. The palace was reconstructed with the help of donations from the county of Split-Dalmatia.