House at 10 Cara Dušana Street

House at 10 Cara Dušana Street (Serbian: Кућа у Улици Цара Душана broj 10, romanized: Kuća u Ulici Cara Dušana broj 10) was built from 1724 to 1727 and is the oldest surviving building in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.

[1][2] After 1740, when Austrians withdrew and the Ottomans regained the control over Belgrade, the house remained settled and, in one way or another, it has been used as a workshop or a shop ever since it was built until today.

One of the provisions of the 1739 Treaty of Belgrade stated that Austria had to demolish all the fortifications and military and civilian buildings it has constructed during the occupation.

Until 1950, the ground level was a grocery shop while the textile workshop "Narodni Heroj Anđа Ranković" was located in the cellar.

Named after the late wife of Aleksandar Ranković, one of the most powerful Communist politicians after 1945, the shop developed into "Beko", formerly one of the largest clothing factories in Serbia.

The building's façade was constructed in the Baroque manner of the day, which Doxat wanted to apply in the entire German section of Belgrade[5] and is a typical example of a residential-business urban house, common in the area of the Habsburg monarchy in the Danube region in the 18th century.

She claimed that in the spring of 1941, soon after Germany occupied Yugoslavia, a group of Wehrmacht officers arrived in the limousine and entered the cellar.

In the next weeks, the tenants were not allowed to enter the cellar and there was a constant noise as the Germans continuously hammered and drilled something below the building.