Kurija

Curia (from the Latin word curia – courthouse, hall) is one of the oldest and most famous buildings in Kikinda. It is a one-story late-baroque building through which the political and administrative, and today the cultural history of Kikinda and the region was once broken through.
The need to build a magistrate's building to accommodate district authorities and prisoners existed as early as 1790. However, construction began only in 1836 and was completed in 1839. Until 1876, the Curia was the seat of the Great Kikinda District, and later of the Royal Court of Justice.

In front of the Curia and in its premises, the dramatic days of the beginning of the national revolt in 1848 took place, in the courtyard of the building, the occupying German army shot thirty innocent hostages on January 9, 1942, and in the cells of the prison part there were many famous public and political figures of this region. Receptions were organized in the ceremonial hall for the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Francis Joseph (1872) and the Yugoslav King - Regent Alexander (1919)...