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Published in the “Official Gazette of BiH” no. 12/09.

Pursuant to Article V para. 4 Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Article 39 para. 1 of the Rules of Procedure of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, at a session held from 14 to 20 March 2006 the Commission adopted a

 

D E C I S I O N

 

I

 

The historic building of Ivo Dusper’s house in Kraljeva Sutjeska, Municipality Kakanj, is hereby designated as a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: the National Monument).

The National Monument is located on a site designated as cadastral plot no. 5/156 (old survey), corresponding to c.p. no. 167 (new survey), Land Register entry no. 88, title deed no. 91/02, cadastral municipality Kraljeva Sutjeska, Municipality Kakanj, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The provisions relating to protection measures set forth by the Law on the Implementation of the Decisions of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, established pursuant to Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of the Federation of  BiH nos. 2/02, 27/02 and 6/04) shall apply to the National Monument.

 

II

 

The Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: the Government of the Federation) shall be responsible for ensuring and providing the legal, scientific, technical, administrative and financial measures necessary for the protection, conservation and presentation of the National Monument.

The Commission to Preserve National Monuments (hereinafter: the Commission) shall determine the technical requirements and secure the funds for preparing and setting up signboards with basic details of the monument and the Decision to proclaim the property a National Monument.

 

III

 

To ensure the on-going protection of the National Monument on the site defined in Clause 1 para. 2 of this Decision, the following protection measures are hereby stipulated:

-          all works are prohibited other than conservation and restoration works, including those designed to display the monument, with the approval of the Federal Ministry responsible for regional planning and under the expert supervision of the heritage protection authority of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: the heritage protection authority),

-          the erection of bill boards, advertisements and signs detrimental to the appearance of the building and its environs is prohibited.

 

A buffer zone is hereby stipulated, consisting of the adjoining plots c.p. nos. 164, 166, 168 and 170. In this zone the following protection measures shall apply:

-          the erection of new buildings that could be detrimental to the National Monument in appearance, proportions, size and colour scheme, or which exceed the height of existing buildings, is prohibited,

-          the dumping of waste is prohibited.

 

IV

 

All executive and area development planning acts not in accordance with the provisions of this Decision are hereby revoked.

 

V

 

Everyone, and in particular the competent authorities of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Canton, and urban and municipal authorities, shall refrain from any action that might damage the National Monument or jeopardize the preservation and rehabilitation thereof.

 

VI

 

The Government of the Federation, the Federal Ministry responsible for regional planning, the Federation heritage protection authority, and the Municipal Authorities in charge of urban planning and land registry affairs, shall be notified of this Decision in order to carry out the measures stipulated in Articles II to V of this Decision, and the Authorized Municipal Court shall be notified for the purposes of registration in the Land Register.

 

VII

 

The elucidation and accompanying documentation form an integral part of this Decision, which may be viewed by interested parties on the premises or by accessing the website of the Commission (http://www.aneks8komisija.com.ba) 

 

VIII

 

Pursuant to Art. V para 4 Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, decisions of the Commission are final.

 

IX

 

On the date of adoption of this Decision, the National Monument shall be deleted from the Provisional List of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of BiH no. 33/02, Official Gazette of Republika Srpska no. 79/02, Official Gazette of the Federation of BiH no. 59/02, and Official Gazette of Brčko District BiH no. 4/03), where it featured under serial no. 289.

 

X

 

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption and shall be published in the Official Gazette of BiH.

 

This Decision has been adopted by the following members of the Commission: Zeynep Ahunbay, Amra Hadžimuhamedović, Dubravko Lovrenović, Ljiljana Ševo and Tina Wik.

 

No: 02-02-43/03-2

15 March 2006

Sarajevo

 

Chair of the Commission

Dubravko Lovrenović

 

E l u c i d a t i o n

 

I – INTRODUCTION

Pursuant to Article 2, paragraph 1 of the Law on the Implementation of the Decisions of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, established pursuant to Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a “National Monument” is an item of public property proclaimed by the Commission to Preserve National Monuments to be a National Monument pursuant to Articles V and VI of Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina  and property entered on the Provisional List of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of  BiH no. 33/02) until the Commission reaches a final decision on its status, as to which there is no time limit and regardless of whether a petition for the property in question has been submitted or not.

The Commission to Preserve National Monuments adopted a decision to add Ivo Duspar's House in Kraljeva Sutjeska to the Provisional List of National Monuments under serial no. 289.

Pursuant to the provisions of the law, the Commission proceeded to carry out the procedure for reaching a final decision to designate the Property as a National Monument, pursuant to Article V of Annex 8 and Article 35 of the Rules of Procedure of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments.

 

II – PROCEDURE PRIOR TO DECISION

In the procedure preceding the adoption of a final decision to proclaim the property a national monument, the following documentation was inspected:

-          Documentation on the location and current owner and user of the property (copy of cadastral plan and copy of land registry entry);

-          Data on the current condition and use of the property, including a description and photographs, data of war damage, data on restoration or other works on the property, etc.;

-          Historical, architectural and other documentary material on the property, as set out in the bibliography forming part of this Decision.

 

The findings based on the review of the above documentation and the condition of the site are as follows:

 

1. Details of the property

Location

The National Monument is located in Prijeko in the right bank of the river Trstivnica, in the quarter where the čaršija with ćepenak shops (horizontally-shuttered shops) is located. A monastery and church stand on an elevation above the čaršija. The National Monument is located on a site designated as cadastral plot no. 5/156 (old survey), corresponding to c.p. no. 167 (new survey), Land Register entry no. 88, title deed no. 91/02, cadastral municipality Kraljeva Sutjeska, Municipality Kakanj, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Historical information

Sutjeska (Sutiska, Kraljeva Sutjeska), a major centre for one of the cultural groups of mediaeval Bosnia, is located in the Trstivnica river valley. The area between present-day Čatići and Kraljeva Sutjeska and beyond constituted the mediaeval župa (county) of Trstivnica. 

Although the area had been inhabited since prehistoric times, Sutjeska is first referred to comparatively late. Older written sources give details relating to the general location of the royal court (Trstivnica), or refer to it as the Ban’s court (Curia bani), since Bosnia’s Kotromanić Bans lived there for a long time, but there is no reference to Sutjeska, though it developed at the same time as the rulers’ court. It is referred to as a settlement of the varoš type (oppidum) in late 14th century written sources, and treated in a sense as the outskirts of the royal fort of Bobovac. In mediaeval documents it is sometimes called Trstivnica after the eponymous river and county.  The name Sutjeska now designates both the town and the entire area with its outlying villages.

In the late 14th century, the town is referred to as Sutiska and Sutjeska izvor [source]. The town of Sutjeska originated and evolved at the same time as the rulers’ court. As it did so, there came about a clear distinction between the two entities, which were closely associated functionally. Although small, the old part of present-day Kraljeva Sutjeska has preserved the old names of its various quarters. Toponomastically, one can reconstruct the mediaeval layout and structure of its functional parts.

The town grew up along both banks of the Trstivnica. The oldest part, Varoš, stands on the left bank, while the right bank is occupied by Prijeko, a residential quarter, the main and larger area in which the čaršija or commercial area is located.

Little of the old traditional architecture has survived in the residential quarter of the former mediaeval town – just a few houses and old wooden shops.

A fine example of the traditional type of residential architecture is the old house of the Dusper family in Prijeko.

The Dusper family is not an old indigenous family from this part of the world, but originates from Rakitno in Dalmatia. According to Ivo Dusper’s daughter, Ljerka Dusper, they moved to Sutjeska from Duboštica, probably in the late 18th or early 19th century.

This family house was built in stages by Ivo Dusper, ancestor of the present living heirs, probably in the first half of the 19th century(1). Over time, the house was successively built on to and extended (an upper floor, and other premises). It is now occupied by the heirs of the old Sutjeska family Dusper: Ljerka Tuša-Dusper (Ivo’s heir) and Marijan, heir to Franjo Dusper.

 

2. Description of the property

In date of origin and location, Ivo Dusper's house belongs to the traditional type of house of the Ottoman period. It was built of local materials – stone, wood and unbaked bricks.

The house was built by local craftsmen, and consists of a ground floor, first floor and attic area, beneath a high, steeply-pitched hipped roof clad with singles. To the north, at attic-storey level, a wooden veranda juts out from the roof plane, under its own separate roof.

            The ground floor is irregular in plan, with sides of 713/704 x 736/800 cm. It contains a covered entrance porch and back quarters, with a kitchen and four storage areas. To the left of the entrance to the kitchen is a larder, and on the other side of the house are two open woodsheds and one covered storeroom below the steps.

Roofed, open-fronted verandas occupy the length of the north and south sides of the building at first-floor level. These lead into the three rooms and one box room on the first floor. A covered wooden staircase on the north side of the building, 7.19 m long and 1.10 to 1.20 m in width, made of wood with pillars linked by arches, leads up to the veranda and opens onto a room known as a dimluk, which still has its original hearth. The dimluk, which also doubled as a hallway in this house, has doors to a small storeroom and two rooms. The larger of these rooms still contains a faience stove with polychrome tiles. To the south of the building, the dimluk admits to the small veranda from which wooden steps lead into the garden. Part of this veranda is closed off and used as a storeroom.

A wooden staircase leads from the first floor to the attic via the roofed, open-fronted veranda, which is also wooden, and forms an irregular octagon in plan. At the corners of the octagon are wooden uprights supporting the polygonal roof of the veranda. The uprights are linked by a wooden railing, with wooden arches above. The veranda leads into two fair-sized rooms with, between them, the area above the dimluk, which is open and was used as a meat-drying room.

The woodwork in the house is of traditionally small size and all of different sizes. The fittings are wrought iron. The double windows consist of two lights, each of three panes. The ground-floor windows are fitted with grilles. The solid-wood doors bear simple decorations.

The ground floor walls are of store, ranging in thickness from 60 to 67 cm, and the half-timbered first floor and attic walls are 12 cm thick. The half-timbering consists of 12 x 12 cm timbers with an unbaked-brick infill. The roof frame is extremely simple, consisting of 10 x 12 cm section rafters, 6.55 m long, slotted into the 14 x 14 cm ridge beam. The rafters are joined by single 5 x 10 cm ties. Slats, also 5 x 10 cm, were then laid at irregular intervals over the rafters, and covered with wooden shingles. Two small vents set into the roof ridge provide ventilation for the roof space. The construction of the vents [no doubt a typo for “roof” – Trans.] above the attic-storey veranda is very similar to that of the main roof. The rafters are less sturdy, at 5 x 8 cm, and are slotted at the front of the roof into an 8 x 10 cm ridge beam onto which 3 x 5 cm slats are nailed.

The ceiling joists are of hewn oak, as is the construction of the verandas.

The floorboards are wide, butt-jointed, and nailed to the joists. The ceilings are šiša- style, fitted into a groove in the beam supporting the šiša. The ceiling of the attic room is plastered.

           

3. Legal status to date

By Ruling of the Institute for the Protection of the Cultural, Historical and Natural Heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina no. 02-787-3/62 the building was placed under state protection.

The Ivo Dusper house in Kraljeva Sutjeska is on the Provisional List of National Monuments under serial no. 289.

 

4. Research and conservation and restoration works

Conservation and restoration works began in 2002, under the auspices of the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport.

The reconstruction had to be effected by replacing all the dilapidated structural and other components. The roof structure was exposed to smoke from the hearth on the first floor, which escaped into the roof, so that all the components of the roof were subject to conservation. The roof covering of wooden shingles was replaced by newly-cut shingles. The leaking roof had caused rot to set in both in the beams and joist and the šiša ceilings and in the floors and the structural railing on the verandas. The worst distortion and decay was observed in the entrance porch, which had to be entirely reconstructed. The woodwork of the windows was also exposed to the elements and badly dilapidated, and had to be entirely replaced by copies of the originals. All the newly-made timber structure and roof cladding had to be treated with coats of linseed oil with added pigment.

The cement that had been sprayed onto the stone façades during earlier works on the building was removed, and the walls were re-pointed with lime mortar. The unbaked brick and šeper walls were repaired using clay mortar, both on the exterior and the interior of the building.  The final coat was of lime casein paints.

Traditional materials and building methods were used in all these works.   

On completion of the reconstruction, the owner of the building, Ljerka Tuša, née  Dusper, equipped the building with traditional furniture and fittings and enabled interested parties to visit it.

 

5. Current condition of the property

The building is in good structural condition, and the owner ensures that it is kept properly maintained.

 

III – CONCLUSION

Applying the Criteria for the adoption of a decision on proclaiming an item of property a national monument (Official Gazette of BiH nos. 33/02 and 15/03), the Commission has enacted the Decision cited above.

The Decision was based on the following criteria:

A.         Time frame

B.         Historical value

C.         Artistic and aesthetic value

C.iii.      proportions

C.iv.      composition

D.         Clarity

D.v.       evidence of a typical way of life at a specific period

F.         Townscape/ Landscape value

F.i.       Relation to other elements of the site

F.ii.       meaning in the townscape

F.iii.      the building or group of buildings is part of a group or site

 

The following documents form an integral part of this Decision:

-          Copy of cadastral plan;

-          Copy of land register entry and proof of title;

-          Photo documentation:

-         photograph of the property – the house after repairs at own expense,

-        photographs taken by Emir Softić of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments;

-          Drawings:

-         file on the property from the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments;

-          Ruling on protection issued by the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments.

 

Bibliography

During the procedure to designate the architectural ensemble of Ivo Dusper’s house in Kraljeva Sutjeska as a national monument, the following work was consulted:

 

1973.    Anđelić, Pavao, Bobovac i Kraljeva Sutjeska, Cultural heritage series, Veselin Masleša, Sarajevo, 1973.

 


(1) Source: Ljerka Dusper          



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