Status of monument -> National monument
Published in the “Official Gazette of BiH”, no. 38/10.
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 9 to 12 February 2010 the Commission adopted a
D E C I S I O N
I
The historic building of the Đumišić family house in Banja Luka 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 nos. 98 and 99/1, cadastral municipality Banja Luka (new survey), corresponding to c.p. nos. 82/10 and 82/11, Land Register entry no. 855, c.m. Banja Luka (old survey), City of Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, 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 Republika Srpska no. 9/02, 70/06 and 64/08) shall apply to the National Monument.
II
The Government of Republika Srpska shall be responsible for providing the legal, scientific, technical, administrative and financial measures necessary for the protection 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 notice boards 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 on the National Monument are prohibited other than conservation and restoration works, routine maintenance works and works designed to ensure the sustainable use of the property, with the approval of the ministry responsible for regional planning in Republika Srpska and under the expert supervision of the heritage protection authority of Republika Srpska;
- the layers of cement mortar arising from the wide pointing of the joints on the façades of the stone ground-floor walls should be removed, and the pointing restored using lime mortar to fill the joints only, without allowing the mortar to extend over the stones themselves.
IV
All executive and area development planning acts are hereby revoked to the extent that they are not in accordance with the provisions of this Decision.
V
Everyone, and in particular the competent authorities of Republika Srpska 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 Republika Srpska, the Ministry responsible for regional planning in Republika Srpska and the heritage protection authority of Republika Srpska, 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 – 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
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, Martin Cherry, Amra Hadžimuhamedović, Dubravko Lovrenović and Ljiljana Ševo.
No: 06.1-02.3-71/10-4
10 February 2010
Sarajevo
Chair of the Commission
Ljiljana Ševo
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.
On 24 January 2007, Đumišić Paša of Banja Luka submitted a petition/proposal to the Commission to Preserve National Monuments to designate the Đumišić family house in Banja Luka as a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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 para. 4 of Annex 8 and Article 35 of the Rules of Procedure of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments.
Statement of Significance
The Đumišić house is a rare, fine and extremely well preserved example of Ottoman-period residential architecture in Banja Luka, and is additionally important in that properties of that period are rapidly disappearing. The architecture of the building as seen today, historical details concerning the Pobrđe mahala, and the Banja Luka branch of the Đumišić family, suggest that the building was built in the latter half of the 19th century.
The Đumišić family played an important part both in the development of Pobrđe mahala and in the public, cultural, religious and political life of Banja Luka and of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
II – PRELIMINARY PROCEDURE
In the procedure preceding the adoption of a final decision to proclaim the property a national monument, the following documentation was inspected:
- 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
- Pursuant to Article 12 of the Law on the Implementation of Decisions of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments Established Pursuant to Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the following procedures were carried out for the purpose of designating the property as a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina:
- A letter ref. 06.1-35-21/2007-2 of 8 February 2007 requesting documentation and views on the designation of the Paša Đumišić house at no. 67 Simo Pandurović Street in Banja Luka, was sent to the City of Banja Luka (the Mayor, the the local authority organ responsible for urbanism and cadastral affairs, the Land Registry office of the Municipal Court), the Ministry of Regional Planning, Civil Engineering and the Environment of Republika Srpska, the Institute for the Protection of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of Republika Srpska, and Paša Đumišić house at no. 67 Simo Pandurović Street, Banja Luka.
The findings based on the review of the above documentation and the condition of the property are as follows:
1. Details of the property
Location
The Đumišić family house at no. 67 Simo Pandurević Street (formerly Ahmet Hadžihalilović Street) is on the left bank of the Vrbas, in the Banja Luka quarter known as Pobrđe, about 95 m south-west of the national monument of the historic site of the harem of the Hajji Osmanija (Talina) mosque. Access to the plot is from a 65 m long čikma (cul-de-sac) which forks off from the south of Simo Pandurević Street.
The National Monument is located on a site designated as cadastral plot nos. 98 and 99/1, cadastral municipality Banja Luka (new survey), corresponding to c.p. nos. 82/10 and 82/11, Land Register entry no. 855, c.m. Banja Luka (old survey), city of Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Historical information
The 1604 census of the Bosnian sanjak(1) does not mention either the Pobrđe mahala or the Hajji Osmanija mosque (the Talina or Osman-bey Đumišić mosque).
Following the erection of the Ferhad pasha mosque(2), which became the nucleus of what would become Donja Šeher, the town began to develop in every direction: “In less than fifty years, eight mahalas and mosques came into being there, on the left bank of the Vrbas, southwards from the Crkvina brook: the Daudija or, as it is still called after the nearby medresa already referred to, the Medresa Mosque, the Arnaudija or Teftedarija, the Hajji Osmanija in Pobrđe, the Simidija, the Sefer-aga or Pećinska below Lauš, while further south in Gornji Šeher there were the Ajdipasha, the Hajji Baba or Šarena and the Medibey [mosques]... (3)”
The 1851 census of Banja Luka’s mahalas and houses refers to Pobrđe mahala, which at that time had 19 houses and whose residents were assessed for tax in the sum of 1710 groschen(4).
The Austro-Hungarian geodetic map of 1884 clearly marks the Đumišić house in Pobrđe mahala.
“The Đumišić family originates from Gümüşhane in Asia Minor, not far from the Black Sea coast (on the River Harşit, south of Trabzon), where it had long owned a silver mine. This is the origin of both the surname Đumišić and the place name Gümüşhane (from the Turkish gümüş=silver). The Persian form of the surname, Sim-zade, is also often to be found in the documents. The first Đumišić’s in Bosnia, the brothers hajji Behram and hajji Osman, would seem to have taken up residence in Banja Luka in the late 16th century, beginning to purchase land there. Until the 1945 agrarian reforms, their descendants were among the wealthiest land-owners in the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina. One of the brothers, hajji Behram effendi, settled in Gornji Šeher, and in the late 16th or early 17th century he built a mosque in Desna Novoselija, which the people dubbed the Behram effendi mosque. The right-hand face of the mimber bore an inscription, probably Behram effendi’s, of 1047/1637-38. The founder’s turbe also stood by the mosque. The mosque was set on fire on 26 May 1993, and the turbe was burned down with it. The other brother, Osman effendi, settled in Pobrđe, where he built the hajji Osmanija or Talina mosque, which was set on fire on 8 September 1993 (see Alija Bejtić, “Banja Luka pod turskom vladavinom”/passim: Bejtić, “Banja Luka”, Naše starine I, Sarajevo, 1953, 105-06 and Husedžinović, Dokumenti, 130 and 578). Over the next four centuries many prominent figures in the public, cultural, religious and political life of Bosnia came from this hospitable family, of whom the most famous are without doubt the Banja Luka mutesellim and mufti Abdulah Hifzi effendi Đumišić, one of the closest associates of Husejn-kapetan Gradaščević, and in fact the spiritual representative of his movement (see Ahmed S. Aličić, Pokret za autonomiju Bosne od 1831. do 1832. godine, Sarajevo, 1996, 217) and his son Mehmed Nazif Đumišić of Banja Luke, along with kadi Muhamed effendi Đumišić and his son Abdulkerim effendi Đumišić of Sarajevo. The latter was the founder of the Sim-zade or Đumišić or Drvenija medresa in Sarajevo. The Banja Luka and Sarajevo Đumišić’s are two branches of the same family. It is no wonder, then, that Abdulkerim of Sarajevo and Abdulah Hifzi Đumišić of Banja Luka are buried in the same grave by the Čokadži hajji Sulejman mosque in Sarajevo, also known locally as the Jedileri (see Mujezinović, Epigrafika, I, 448).(5)”
In early 2007 the sisters Džehva, Paša and Emina Đumišić endowed as a vakuf [pious endowment](6) the Đumišić family’s private collection in memory of their parents Muhamed-bey and Begzada Đumišić: 64 manuscripts in Arabic, Turkish and Persian, ranging in age from 150 to 600 years, a total of 1159 original documents in Ottoman Turkish (17th-19th century), German and Bosnian (late 19th and early 20th century); 64 old printed books(7) and 740 issues of old periodicals (Biser, Behar, Dječiji novi Behar, El Hidaje, Gajret, Hikmet, Islamska Svijest, Islamski Glas, Jutro, Narodna Pravda, Narodna Uzdanica, Naš Dom, Novi Behar, Novo Vrijeme, Pravda, Slobodna Riječ, Takvim and Đulistan) for the Gazi Husrev-bey Library in Sarajevo.
Of the total of 64 manuscripts in Arabic, Turkish and Persian (30 complete and 34 fragments(8)) in the permanent inventory book under inv.no. R-10234-10307, 29 have been catalogued(9) in the 16th volume of the Catalogue of Arabic, Turkish, Persian and Bosnian Manuscripts, and the plan is to catalogue the rest in Vo. 17 of the Catalogue.
Hafiz Haso Popara, librarian of the Gazi Husrev-bey Library, writes of the importance and value of the original endowed documents in Ottoman Turkish, German and Bosnian in these terms: “There is no doubt that these documents, which include several examples of firman, berat, bujuruldija, hudždžet, murasela, defter, arzulah, ilam, temessuk etc., are of prime importance for the study of the cultural heritage and history of Banja Luka and the Bosnian frontier region during the last two centuries of Ottoman rule in this part of the world. They refer by name to several thousand prominent figures who played a key part in the religious, political, military, cultural and public life of that time.(10)”
2. Description of the property
The Đumišić house is separated from the street by a stone courtyard wall. Access to the plot with the courtyard, house and garden is from Simo Pandurević Street (formerly Ahmet Hadžihalilović Street) through a wooden door at the far north-east corner of plot c.p. 98.
The house has two entrances: the main entrance to the east, facing the cul-de-sac, and a rear entrance to the north.
The layout of the house itself, the position of the entrance gateway, and the cobbled way from the entrance gateway to the rear entrance to the house reveal without doubt that the part of plot 98 to the north of the house was the men’s courtyard and the part to the east of the house was the women’s courtyard.
To the west, the men’s courtyard opens onto the large garden (area approx. 17.483 m2) to the west and south of the house.
The Austro-Hungarian map of 1884 shows two buildings east of the house: one about 8.50 m away, with a footprint of about 4.50 x 9 m, and another about 8.50 m away, with a footprint of about 5.00 x 7.50 m.
According to the design(11) of the outbuilding, the single-storey outbuilding with a footprint of approx. 3 x 9 m was built after 1970. The outbuilding is about 5 m to the north of the house and 22 m west of the entrance gateway.
The building is symmetrical(12) in layout, with a ground floor of approx. 10.64 x 12.61 m and a first floor with a jutty of about 40 to 60 cm on all four sides.
The ground floor, with massive stone walls (Lauš stone), is divided structurally into three sections by transverse stone walls about 78 cm thick. The outer walls of the ground floor are about 95 cm thick.
The rear entrance (a round-headed opening of approx. 100 x 190 cm) to the north leads into a men’s room or halvat (approx. 4.00 x 4.04 m), from which a door opens onto a men’s halvat (approx. 4.03 x 4.26 cm) originally used as the selamluk [general reception room.]
Later, a wooden L-shaped staircase was added in the south-east corner of the outer men’s room, leading to the divanhana [spacious landing] on the first floor. The staircase is approx. 140 cm wide, with steps of approx. 22 x 22 cm. The floor of the room is paved with 23 x 23 cm flagstones.
The rear entrance is fitted with sockets in the wall to allow for the insertion of a wooden crossbeam to secure the door against forced entry, and all the ground-floor windows are fitted with wrought-iron grilles on the outside for security reasons.
The larger men’s room (halvat) has two windows in the north wall and two in the east, measuring approx. 79 x 125 cm with a parapet height of approx. 55 cm, all with semi-domes and pointed frontal arches. It has a wooden floor.
All the ground-floor rooms have ceilings with exposed beams and with boards cladding the beams on the underside.
The main entrance, with a simple double-valved wooden door, measuring about 235 x 227 cm, is from the women’s courtyard, facing the street. Over the door is a rectangular wooden window of approx. 55 x 85 cm, with a wrought iron grille on the outside, to allow light into the entrance area or hajat in the central section of the ground floor. The hajat is deep, at approx. 2.91 x 8.47 m, and is set between the longitudinal outer walls of the ground floor. It has a ceiling height of approx. 347 cm, with the floor about 52 cm below that of the outer men’s halvat, with which it is connected by a wooden door of approx. 87 x 183 cm. Another door of approx. 152 x 156 cm to the south leads into a storeroom. Next to the main entrance doorway, against the south cross-wall, was a wooden staircase leading to the kamarija and divanhana. Later this staircase was removed and the first-floor kamarija was converted into a room. The position of the staircase can still be seen on the ceiling of the hajat.
The storeroom, of approx. 2.25 x 8.47 m, is also located between the outer longitudinal walls of the ground floor. It has a ceiling height of approx. 307; the floor is about 40 cm higher than that of the hajat. It has a window of approx. 65 x 58 cm in the middle of the south wall, and one of about 79 x 125 cm [the original of this decision does not state where this second window is located – trans.].
Structurally, the building is in three parts: east, with three rooms of (from north to south) approx. 4.94 x 5.08 m, 3.40 x 5.08 m and 3.95 x 5.08 m), middle (the divanhana) and west, with a small room, the kitchen (approx. 4.39 x 3.54 m) and a bathroom and box room (approx. 3.25 x 3.54 m).
In other areas of Bosnia the kitchen is usually on the ground floor, rising through two storeys, but in the Bosnian Krajina [military frontier region] and Banja Luka the room with a hearth, the “house” or kitchen, is usually on the first floor(13), as here in the Đumišić. Originally, the kitchen had no ceiling; the smoke from the hearth rose into the roof timbers from where it escaped to the outside; in the case of Ottoman houses in Banja Luka, the roof was usually provided with vents for this purpose. Later a wooden ceiling was installed over the kitchen, and the “house” was thus separated from the roof space.
The vodnica, a room containing a toilet and space for storing water vessels, no longer exists. In all typologically similar houses a single-flight staircase led down from the vodnica to the garden, which suggests, in the light of the position of the kitchen, that the vodnica was on the west side of the building, towards the garden.
As it is now, the divanhana of approx. 1.74 x 12.60 m occupies the middle of the first floor, running the full length of the building from the north to the south outer wall. It is lit by a single window of approx. 70 x 130 cm in each outer wall. The staircase that leads up from the ground floor emerges in the north corner of the divanhana, and is fitted with a tahtapoš(14).
The only fairly representative room on the first floor is the main women’s čardak or “ćošak” at the north-east corner of the building. This room, which measures 4.94 x 5.08 cm, is lit by two windows of approx. 70 x 130 cm with a parapet height of approx. 75 cm in the outer walls. The room is fitted with sećija built-in settees by the windows, and the floor is covered with Bosnian ćilim [kilim] carpets. The first-floor rooms have a ceiling height of about 250 cm.
The house was built of the traditional materials – stone for the ground-floor walls and timber and unfired brick for the half-timbered first-floor.
The roof trusses are of timber. The soot that covers the roof timbers strongly suggests that the original roof timbers from the time the hearth of the “house” was in use still survive.
They consist of king posts reinforced at the angles by struts. The middle purlins consist of struts resting on the horizontal truss beam running the length of the building. The roof frame was constructed without a ridge purlin; the rafters are reinforced at 2/3 the height of the roof trusses by wooden collar beams. The roof is clad with plain beaver-tail tiles, and the eaves have no guttering.
3. Legal status to date
There is no available documentary evidence to reveal whether property has previously been under protection, listed or accorded value.
4. Research and conservation-restoration works
The Đumišić house was quite badly damaged by the disastrous earthquake that struck Banja Luka in 1969; the structural expertise revealed that about 34% of the total structural area of the building of approx. 275 sq.m. was damaged(15).
The table setting out the percentage damage to the structure and installations gave the following details: vertical bearing elements – walls and pillars – approx. 40% damage; horizontal bearing elements approx. 10%; partition walls approx. 50%; rendered surfaces, approx. 80% damage; roof trusses and chimneys, approx. 50% damage; roof cladding of plain tiles, approx. 20% damage; façades and interior plaster and paintwork, approx. 100% damage.
The report for the remedial works provided an outline description of the damage to the property caused by the 1969 earthquake. All the first-floor walls had horizontal, vertical and diagonal cracks, with the infill detached from the timbering in places. On the ground floor, the window lintels were cracked vertically; there were vertical cracks in the north-west corner, with gaps between the stones; there were diagonal cracks in the north-east corner; a diagonal crack ran down the middle of the east wall from door height; the transverse wall (the inside walls running north-south between the men’s halvat and the entrance hallway with staircase) had a horizontal cracks; there were no visible cracks on the other walls.
The report envisaged clearing the mortar from the joints on the ground-floor stone walls and refilling them with cement mortar. The cracked ground-floor window lintel needed to be replaced with new stone blocks or a reinforced concrete lintel. On site it was observed that the east ground-floor wall had been partly rebuilt north of the door, that all the joints had been filled with cement mortar, and that the pointing was very wide. The cracked window lintels had been replaced with stone lintels.
The report provided for the introduction on the ground floor of transverse interior reinforcing walls of brick, with a thickness of 25 cm, running north-south, in the men’s halvat and the store room. These walls were to be given foundations, and to be executed at each end, at the juncture with the transverse stone walls of the ground floor, with vertical reinforced concrete ring beams (reinforced with 4Æ12 rebars and Æ6/25 cm ties), joined to the existing transverse walls by Æ6mm iron cramps through the pointing of the existing wall at every 60 cm in height. During the on-site inspection conducted in 2009, it was observed that this had not been carried out.
The proposal was to reinforce the first-floor infill at the corners with iron cramps, to replace part of the unfired brick infill with hollow bricks and to fix them to the timbering in the same way, and to face the timbers of the half-timbered structure with reeds before plastering. During the on-site inspection conducted in 2009 it was observed that this had been done.
The report provided a solution for the horizontal and vertical bracing of the ceiling and roof structure. The ceiling joists were to be braced by the installation of pressure braces (5 x 14 cm boards) fixed to the joists, with the possible use of wooden shims with a maximum thickness of about 5 cm for levelling purposes, and of pressure braces (12 x 12 cm beams) screwed to the ceiling joists. During the on-site inspection conducted in 2009, it was observed that this had not been carried out.
The roof structure is typical of Banja Luka houses of that period (see description of the monument), and no atypical solution using braces to reinforce the structure was observed during the on-site inspection conducted in 2009.
5. Current condition of the property
The building is in good structural condition. There is superficial damage to the rendering on the lower reaches of the first-floor wall, which has fallen away from the lower part of the jutty half-timbering.
The interior of the building is in a state of neglect, reflecting the age of the owner-occupant of the property, who is using only four rooms.
The extract from the Lauš 1 Regulatory Plan adopted and published in the Official Gazette of the City of Banja Luka no. 18/07, provides for the construction of houses on the plot designated as c.p. no. 82/11, Land Register entry no. 855, c.m. Banja Luka, area 12,185 sq.m, property(16) of Đumišić Paša, daughter of Muhamed, with a share of 95/96ths, and Halil Šeranić, son of Mustajbeg, with a share of 1/96th.
At its 46th session, held on 8 October 2007, the Assembly of Banja Luka passed Decision no. 07-013-645/07 adopting the Lauš – 1 Regulatory Plan. The Plan covers an area of 45 ha, with the following boundaries: north, from Karađorđeva Street, west, part of Miloš Matić and Vladimir Rolović Streets, south, Franz Schubert Street. The south-east boundary follows Simo M. Jorgić street to the river Crkvena, joining Karađorđeva Street.
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.i. quality of workmanship
C.ii. quality of materials
C.iii. proportions
C.iv. composition
C.v. value of details
C.vi. value of construction
D. Clarity (documentary, scientific and educational value)
D.iv. evidence of a particular type, style or regional manner
D.v. evidence of a typical way of life at a specific period
E. Symbolic value
E.iii. traditional value
E.v. significance for the identity of a group of people
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
G. Authenticity
G.ii. material and content
G.iv. traditions and techniques
G.v. location and setting
The following documents form an integral part of this Decision:
- Ownership documentation:
- Copy of cadastral plan, c.p. 98 and 99/1, c.m. Banja Luka VIII-2 (new survey), plan no. Banja Luka-93, scale 1:1000, issued on 06.02.2002 by the Department of Geodetic and Proprietary Rights Affairs, Banja Luka branch, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina;
- Title deed no. 1766, transcript no. 10-952-2-2349/2007 of 01.03.2007 for plots no. 98 and 99/1, c.m. Banja Luka 8, issued on 24.12.2009 by the Department of Geodetic and Proprietary Rights Affairs, Banja Luka branch, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina;
- Photodocumentation:
- Photographs of the historic building of the Đumišić family house in Banja Luka taken on 25 September 2009 by architect Emir Softić using FujiFilm FinePix S8100fd digital camera, and final year architecture student Nermina Katkić, using Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W120 digital camera;
- Technical documentation:
- Technical drawings of the historic building of the Đumišić family house in Banja Luka (ground plan of the ground and first floor) measured and surveyed on 25 September 2009 by final year architecture student Nermina Katkić and architect Emir Softić; drawings by Nermina Katkić;
- Design for an outbuilding, site plan, scale 1:500, investor Đumišić Begzada, Banja Luka Planning Authority, Banja Luka, 23.06.1970;
- Documentation on previous protection of the property:
- Repair project for the property at no. 23 Hadžihalilović Street in Banja Luka, P.P. Projekt Banja Luka, drawn up in the 1970s;
- Other documentation:
- Ruling on the cessation of state ownership and the reestablishment of previous proprietary rights to the building land designated as c.p. no. 82/11, Land Register entry no. 855,c.m. Banja Luka, no. 11-476-33/08 of 11.02.2007;
- project for the property at no. 23 Hadžihalilović Street in Banja Luka, P.P. Projekt Banja Luka, drawn up in the 1970s, Department of Proprietary Rights Affairs, Geodetic and Proprietary Rights Affairs Authority, Banja Luka branch;
- Letter from the Gazi Husrev-bey Library in Sarajevo no. 132/2008 of 14 July 2008 addressed to Emina-hanuma Đumišić of Banja Luka;
- Decision no. 07-013-645/07 on the adoption of Regulatory Plan Lauš – 1, Assembly of the City of Banja Luka, 2007;
- Regulatory Plan Lauš – 1, Annex 5, plan of layout, scale 1:1000, Planning Authority of Republika Srpska, Banja Luka, September 2007.
Bibliography
During the procedure to designate the historic building of the Đumišić family house in Banja Luka as a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina the following works were consulted:
1953 Bejtić, Alija. “Banja Luka pod turskom vladavinom. Arhitektura i teritorijalni razvitak grada 16. i 17. vijeku” (Banja Luka under Turkish Rule). Sarajevo: Naše Starine (Annual of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina), no. I, 1953
1989 Škaljić, Abdulah. Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku (Turkish Loanwords in Serbo-Croatian). Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 1989
1999 Husedžinović, Sabira. “Džamije Banja Luke u planovima austrijskih ratnih karata iz XVIII stoljeća” (Mosques of Banja Luka on the Plans of 18th century Austrian War Maps). Prilozi za orijentalnu filologiju (Contributions to Oriental Philology). Sarajevo: Oriental Institute, 47-48
2005 Husedžinović, Sabira. Dokumenti opstanka (vrijednosti, značaj, rušenje i obnova kulturnog naslijeđa) (Documents of Survival [value, significance, destruction and restoration of the cultural heritage]). Zenica: Museum of Zenica, 2005
2008 Popara, Haso. “Tri banjalučka arzulaha. Prilog historiji Banja Luke” (Three Banja Luka appeals/petitions. Contribution to the history of Banja Luka). Sarajevo: Annals of the Gazi Husrev-bey Library, vol. XXVII-XXVIII, 2008
(1) Comprehensive survey of the Bosnian sanjak for 1604, Vol. III (title of original: Defter-i-mufassal-i liva-i Bosna cild salis, Ankara, Tapu Kadastro, Kuyûd-1 Kadîme Arşivi TD 479), Sarajevo: Bosniac Institute Zűrich, Sarajevo Branch: Oriental Institute, 2000.
(2) Ferhad-pasha Sokolović built a total of 216 public edifices in the area between the Crkvina brook and the river Vrbas between 1579 and 1587 (Bejtić, Alija, “Banja Luka pod turskom vladavinom. Arhitektura i teritorijalni razvitak grada u 16. i 17. vijeku,” Sarajevo: Naše starine (annual of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina) no. 1, 1953, 97
(3) Bejtić, op.cit., 1953, 103. Bejtić was referring to the 50 years following the construction of the buildings endowed by Ferhad pasha Sokolović, i.e. the half-century from 1587, through into the first half of the 17th century (op. E. Softić).
(4) From a document (archive no. 139, folio 6a) in the State Archives in Sarajevo (idem, 1953, 115).
(5) Popara, Haso, “Tri banjalučka arzulaha. Prilog historiji Banja Luke,” Sarajevo: Anali Gazi Husrev-begove biblioteke, vol. XXVII-XXVIII, 2008, 70. Translator’s note: firman: imperial decree, order issued by the sultan; berat: imperial decree bestowing an order, privilege or property; bujuruldija: order or command issued by a pasha or vali; hudždžet: court record, document with evidentiary force; murasela: official summons or command; defter: register, protocol, book of accounts; arzulah: appeal, petition; ilam: court order issued by a kadi; temessuk: certificate
(6) Each manuscript, document, book and magazine bears the stamp “VAKUF OF MUHAMED AND BEGZADA ĐUMIŠIĆ, BANJA LUKA 2007” and has been given a serial number, with manuscripts designated by the letter R, periodicals with P, printed books with E, and documents with A. (From letter from the Gazi Husrev-bey Library in Sarajevo, ref. 132/2008, of 14 July 2008, to Emina-hanuma Đumišić of Banja Luka)
(7) Including a first edition of the translation of the Qur’an into the local language by Mićo Ljubibratić, with a dedication from the translator’s wife, Mara, to Muhamed Đumišić (Popara, 2008, 71).
(8) “... 34 are incomplete, consisting only of fragments of varying lengths of various works.” (Popara, 2008, 70).
(9) The catalogue numbers of the manuscripts from the Đumišić family of Banja Luka and the numbers of the pages where they feature in the 16th Catalogue of Arabic, Turkish, Persian and Bosnia manuscripts are: 8844 (p. 7-8), 8850 (p.1213), 8866 (p. 35-36), 8884 (p. 53), 8890 (p. 75-77), 8891 (p. 77-79), 8902 (p. 93-94), 8906 (p. 98), 8924 (p. 140), 8927 (p. 142), 8928 (p. 142-143), 8936 (p. 149), 8890 (p. 75-77), 8943 (p. 154-155), 8947 (p. 157), 8949 (p. 158-159), 8956 (p. 167-168), 8974 (p. 211), 8975 (p. 212), 8980 (p. 219-220), 8990 (p. 228), 9030 (p. 276-277), 9066 (p. 313-314), 9107 (p. 375-377), 9163 (p. 437-438), 9264 (p. 529-531), 9265 (p. 531-533), 9360 (p. 670-671) and 9369 (p. 678). (From letter from the Gazi Husrev-bey Library in Sarajevo, ref. 132/2008, of 14 July 2008, to Emina-hanuma Đumišić of Banja Luka).
(10) Popara, op.cit., 2008, 71
(11) Design for an outbuilding, site plan, scale 1:500. Investor Đumišić Begzada, Planning Authority of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, 23.06.1970.
(12) Most houses of the Ottoman period in Banja Luka are symmetrical in layout. (Husedžinović, Sabira, Dokumenti opstanka. Vrijednosti, značaj, rušenje i obnova kulturnog naslijeđa, Zenica: Zenica Museum, 2005, 164)
(13) Husedžinović, op.cit., 2005, 164
(14) tahtapôš, tahtòpeš, m (pers.) a fixed board shelf above stairs or in the corner of the divanhana of old houses, where glassware was kept, <Tur. tahtapuş < Pers. takhta-pūsh (Pers. takhta “plank” and Pers. pūsh, from inf. pūshiden “to cover” (source: Škaljić, Abdulah, Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo, 1989, 596). [The One Volume Persian English Dictionary (S. Haim, Tehran, 1986) gives the translation “planked” for the word takhtaposh. Trans.]
(15) Repair project. Property at no. 23 Hadžihalilović Street in Banja Luca, P.P. Projekt Banja Luka, drawn up in the 1970s. Though called a “Project,” this is in fact a short report deriving from a technical survey of properties damaged in the 1969 earthquake.
(16) Following an application by Đumišić Paša, pursuant to Article 44 para. 3 of the Law on Building Land of Republika Srpska (Official Gazette of RS no. 112/06), Ruling of the Department of Proprietary Affairs of the Geodetic and Proprietary Rights Authority of Republika Srpska, Banja Luka branch, no. 11-476-33/08 of 11.02.2007, terminated state ownership and re-established the previous proprietary rights to the building land designated as c.p. no. 82/11, Land Register entry no. 855, c.m. Banja Luka.
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