Status of monument -> National monument
Published in the Official Gazette of BiH no. 28/10.
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 Music School in Travnik 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. 2457 (new survey), corresponding to c.p. no. 2/309 (old survey), Land Register entry no. 662, cadastral municipality Travnik, Municipality Travnik, 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, 6/04 and 51/07) 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 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, routine maintenance works, works designed to ensure the sustainable use of the building, and works designed to present the monument, with the approval of the Federal ministry responsible for regional planning (hereinafter: the relevant ministry) and under the expert supervision of the heritage protection authority of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter; the heritage protection authority);
- the conservation and restoration project shall include a methodological approach designed to preserve the historic values of the property;
- the original appearance of the property shall be preserved as regards the treatment of architectural details, the colour of the walls, the treatment of the façades, the construction of the property and the pitch of the roof and type of roof cladding, and all changes to the stylistic features by the removal or addition of individual decorative elements and architectural details (stone and other mouldings – architraves, string courses and cornices, etc.) are prohibited;
- the premises may be adapted to suit modern needs (installation of central heating and other interior works), provided that the stylistic features of the property are retained, and subject to the approval of the relevant ministry and under the expert supervision of the heritage protection authority;
- the property may be used for educational and cultural purposes in a manner that shall not compromise the integrity and safety of the building and its meaning in the townscape.
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 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 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.kons.gov.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 day following its publication 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: 07.3-02.3-71/10-11
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 3 October 2008 the Serbian Orthodox parish of Travnik submitted a petition/proposal to the Commission to Preserve National Monuments to designate the Music School in Travnik as a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Pursuant to the proposal, 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 Music School in Travnik, built in 1903, was endowed by the Fufić family and handed over to the Orthodox parish of Travnik. It is a well-preserved example of the many public and philanthropic properties built in the towns and cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the great urban expansion of the Austro-Hungarian period. That same year the only Serb primary school in the town was moved into the building. During the Austro-Hungarian period and the interwar period the school was one of the most representative institutions of education in the entire district. Later the building also came to house other cultural and educational institutions associated with the Orthodox Church. It now houses the Primary Music School, an educational establishment of repute and the only of its kind in Travnik, meaning that the building has been in use for educational purposes without a break since it was first erected.
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 and views heard:
- Documentation on the location of the property and the current owner and occupant;
- Details of legal protection to date;
- 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;
- Letter ref. 07.3-35.2-23/09-209 of 05.11.2009 requesting an opinion in writing on the designation of the Music School as a national monument from a representative of Travnik Municipality, the Travnik Serbian Orthodox parish, the Federal Ministry of Regional Planning, the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of the Federal Ministry of Culture, the Archives of BiH, the Archives of Central Bosnia and the Travnik Museum.
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 Music School is located in Lukačka Street in central Travnik, on the right of the river Lašva, opposite the Orthodox church of the Dormition of the Holy Virgin.
The National Monument is located on a site designated as cadastral plot no. 2457 (new survey), corresponding to c.p. no. 2/309 (old survey), Land Register entry no. 662, cadastral municipality Travnik, Municipality Travnik, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Historical information
From the very beginning of the Ottoman period in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as the reforms and modernization of the Ottoman Empire proceeded, increasing rights were accorded to various religious and ethnic groups, resulting in more and more construction in Travnik, when the town began to acquire its present-day urban physiognomy.
Its development continued during the Austro-Hungarian period, with the construction of public buildings, railways, roads, bridges, residential properties and schools(1). The part of town known as Luke, where the Music School is located, also continued to develop, and the new authorities continued to build major edifices(2). One of the most representative edifices in this part of town, built in 1903(3), was paid for by a married couple, Gavrilo and Jovanka Fufić(4).
The building is one of several educational establishments erected in the inner urban area of Travnik during the Austro-Hungarian period, along with the Boys’ Primary School, the School of the Sisters of Mercy(5), the Archdiocesan Great Grammar School, the Commercial (Civic) School, the Medresa and the Girls’ Primary School(6).
There is no surviving project documentation, nor is the name of the designer known.
From the time it was built until the outbreak of World War II the property endowed by the Fufić family was occupied by a Serb primary school under the auspices of the Orthodox parish of Travnik. The school had previously been housed in a building on the other side of the same street, known as the First Serb School(7).
In 1923 the Serb People’s Centre moved into the building, followed in 1931 by the Girls’ Vocational School(8).
Following World War II the Travnik Museum was temporarily housed in the Fufić building.
Nationalization was carried out in 1956, when the property was expropriated from the Orthodox parish of Travnik and the Secondary School of Economics moved into the building.
In the early 1970s the Secondary School of Economics was relocated and the building was occupied by the Braća Volić Primary School(9).
In 1978 the building was made available to the Travnik Primary Music School(10), after which major building works were carried out on the interior. The works were completed in 1982 and the Music School began operating at full capacity(11). It suspended activities in 1992, and during the 1992-1995 war the building was occupied first by the HVO (Croatian Defence Council) military command and then by that of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The building suffered no major damage during the war.
After the work the building was again used to house the Music School, though until 2000, interior refurbishment works and the replacement of obsolete installations went on alongside the school’s teaching activities.
In 2006 the decision was taken to grant the provisional concession of proprietary rights to the Serbian Orthodox Parish of Travnik over the Primary Music School, Travnik(12).
The surviving project and other documentation relating to the works on the property carried out during the latter half of the 20th century disappeared following a break-in at the property in the summer of 2009(13).
2. Description of the property
Stylistically, the building may be described as in the historicist style.
The building is rectangular in plan, with sides of 23.30 x 14.20 m. It stands with its north, entrance area facing the river Lašva, where there is an enclosed green area of approx. 53.00 x 39.00 m. The building has four storeys (basement+ground+first floor+attic storey), with a height to the eaves of 11.00 m and to the roof ridge of 14.40 m.
The entrance to the building is in the axis of the recessed section of the north façade, with four steps, 7.40 m in width, leading to it. The entrance consists of a double-valved door measuring 1.50 x 2.30 m.
The ground and first floors are very similar in layout: a centrally-placed hallway leads to the symmetrical east and west wings of the property, housing classrooms and offices. To the south is a double-flight staircase leading up to the first floor and attic storey.
The first room on the ground floor is a vestibule of 7.65 x 3.50 m, leading to the east and west wings of the building, each of 6.40 x 13.00 m.
The east wing houses the staff common room, measuring 6.40 x 4.15 m, to the south of which are four classrooms with vestibules, measuring 6.40 x 8.40 m overall.
The west wing houses a large classroom of 6.40 x 9.00 m, to the south of which is the principal’s office, measuring 6.40 x 3.55 m.
To the south of the vestibule is a double-flight staircase of 2.65 x 5.65 m leading to the first floor.
The first-floor vestibule is of the same size as the ground-floor vestibule. To the east, above the staff common room, are offices, of the same dimensions as the common room, while to the south are classrooms of the same form and size as those below.
To the west of the vestibule is a concert hall with stage, measuring 13.10 x 6.75 m, with a vestibule of 1.95 x 5.05 m to the east.
Access to the attic space is via a double-flight wooden staircase. The single attic space houses a number of partitioned-off premises used for storage. The attic floor consists of brick and rammed crushed stone.
The façades of the building were executed to imitate a stone wall, accentuated by string courses and cornice and tertiary mouldings. The two-light façade windows have round-headed overlights, and measure 110 x 230 cm overall; they are framed by pointed arches.
The north façade is a strictly symmetrical composition consisting of a recessed central section and two flanking wings with two ranks of windows. The double-valved entrance door with a round-headed overlight, measuring 150 x 340 cm overall, is set in the central recessed section, with above it an inscription, “Osnovna muzička škola Travnik“ (Primary Music School Travnik). The wings each have three windows.
At first-floor level, the recessed section and the two flanking wings each have three windows. Those on the wings are framed by decorative façade elements. Horizontal façade bands, 50 cm in width and grey in colour, on which the school’s inscription originally featured, extend above the first-floor windows(14).
The east and west façades each have, to the south, two ranks of four windows, while to the north the walls are blank.
The south façade is side-facing and is simple in design; the fenestration here consists of the rectangular windows of the classrooms and stairwell.
As regards the materials used, the exterior and interior bearing walls are of brick, and the horizontal construction and staircase of reinforced concrete. The outer bearing walls are 50 cm thick, and the transverse bearing walls separating the central vestibule from the east and west wings are 60 cm thick. The partition walls in the interior are 15 and 30 cm thick. The socle is faced with stone slabs with a height of 1.00 m; otherwise, the façades are rendered. The roof trusses are timber, and the roof is clad with tiles with sheet metal flashing
The exterior and interior joinery is wooden, and the flooring is all of modern materials, with the exception of the surviving flooring in the attic. The ground floor ceilings are 3.80 m high, and those of the first floor are 4.50 m high. In the basement, housing the service quarters, the ceilings are 2.20 m high. The reinforced concrete interstorey structure is 20 cm thick.
3. Legal status to date
The Music School in Travnik has not previously been inscribed or recorded in a register of cultural monuments(15) at any level.
4. Research and conservation-restoration works
There are no details of any conservation-restoration works on the Music School in Travnik relating to the Austro-Hungarian period or the interwar period.
Early in the latter half of the 20th century, in 1956, when the building was used to house the Secondary School of Economics, it seems likely that no major conservation-restoration works or even routine maintenance works were carried out, since in 1978 it became necessary to replace all the timber joists in the building. By 1982 works on the façades had also been carried out and the installations had been replaced. In 1982 the colour scheme of the façade, until then in shades of yellow, was changed(16).
Since the last war in BiH, beginning in 1996, works have been carried out on the façades, the installations have again been replaced, and all the rooms have been repainted.
5. Current condition of the property
The Music School in Travnik is in very good structural and general condition and the building is kept properly maintained.
6. Specific risks
There are no specific risks relating to the property.
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
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
F. Townscape/ Landscape value
F.ii. meaning in the townscape
G. Authenticity
G.iii. use and function
G.v. location and setting
I. Completeness
I.ii. homogeneity
I.iii. completeness
The following documents form an integral part of this Decision:
- Ownership documentation:
- copy of cadastral plan 2457, c.m. Travnik (new survey), title deed 2253/01, plan no. 14; scale 1:1000 (old survey c.p. no. 2/309, c.m. Travnik), issued on 11 December 2009 by the Department of Planning, Building, Cadaster and Proprietary Rights Affairs of Travnik Municipality, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina;
- Land Register entry for plot no. 2/309, c.m. Travnik, Land Register entry no. 662 (old survey), order no. 7243/01 of 24 December 2009, Land Register Office of the Municipal Court in Travnik, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina;
- Documentation on previous protection:
- letter from the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport, ref. 07-40-4-4160-1/09 of 11 November 2009;
- Photodocumentation;
- photographs of the Music School in Travnik taken on 6 November 2009 by architect Adi Ćorović, using Sony DSC – H10 digital camera;
- Technical documentation:
- Cadastral map of 1883 – letter ref. 04-30 278/09 of 11.12.2009, Department of Planning, Building, Cadaster and Proprietary Rights Affairs of Travnik Municipality;
- survey of the Music School in Travnik conducted by final-year architecture student Nermina Katkić, November 2009;
- Other documentation:
- Documentation in the possession of the Travnik Serbian Orthodox Parish;
- Ruling of the Municipal Secretariat for the Commerce and Finance of Travnik Council no. Up.05/V-476-4/77 of 1 December 1977; Decision on Provisional Concession of Proprietary Rights to the Serbian Orthodox Parish of Travnik over the Primary Music School, Travnik – Decision by the Government of Central Bosnia Canton, 23 March 2006; letter from the Serbian Orthodox Parish of Travnik ref. 34/08 of 1 October 2008, Travnik.
Bibliography
During the procedure to designate the Music School in Travnik as a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina the following works were consulted:
1932. Zabeo, Kamilo, Travnička spomenica – prigodom pedeset-godišnjice nadbiskupskog sjemeništa i nadbiskupske velike gimnazije u Travniku 1882.-1932 (Travnik Commemoration on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Archbishop's seminary and great grammar school in Travnik, 1882-1992), Sarajevo: Regina Apostolorum Academy Press
1990. Maslić, Fatima. Starine i muzeji Travnika (Antiquities and Museums of Travnik). Zagreb: Travnik Tourist Association, 1990.
2005. Decision of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments designating the architectural ensemble of the Fort in Travnik as a national monument, 25 January 2005.
2006. Maslić, Fatima, Baner, Dragana. Vodič kroz prošlost, starine i prirodno naslijeđe travničkog kraja (Guide to the History, Antiquities and Natural Heritage of the Travnik Region). Travnik: Travnik Museum, 2006.
2008. data from the Travnik Museum, Church of the Dormition of the Holy Virgin in Travnik, letter ref. 01/872-SI/08, 19 May 2008, Travnik Municipality
2008. Decision of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments designating the historic building of the former convent and school of the Sisters of Mercy in Travnik as a national monument, at a session held from 29 January to 4 February 2008 in Sarajevo
(1) For more on the history and development of the town of Travnik throughout the ages, see the Decision by the Commission to Preserve National Monuments designating the architectural ensemble of the Fort in Travnik as a national monument, 25 January 2005.
(2) Primarily the Officers’ Club, but the Austro-Hungarian authorities also laid out the park in Gornja Čaršija, and erected representative residential properties and many other buildings that were to be of economic and social importance. For more on the history and development of Luke, see the Decision by the Commission to Preserve National Monuments designating the historic building of the Officers’ Club in Travnik as a national monument, adopted at a session held from 1 to 7 December 2009 in Sarajevo, and the Decision by the Commission designating the history building of the former convent and school of the Sisters of Mercy in Travnik, adopted at a session held from 29 January to 4 February 2008 in Sarajevo.
(3) O. Kamilo Zabeo, Travnička spomenica – prigodom pedeset-godišnjice nadbiskupskog sjemeništa i nadbiskupske velike gimnazije u Travniku 1882.-1932. Sarajevo: Regina Apostolorum Academy Press, 1932, 62.
The cadastral map of 1883, since when the Serbian Orthodox parish has been the official owner of the property, shows a building with the same footprint where the Music School now stands, so that there is no doubt there was a building on the site prior to 1903, probably the Fufić family house – letter ref. 04-30 278/09 of 11.12.2009, Department of Planning and Building, Cadaster and Proprietary Rights Affairs, Travnik Municipality
(4) Gavrilo Fufić, who was born on 24.03.1824 and died in Travnik on 30.12.1901, was a merchant and shipowner, whose vessels plied their trade around the Adriatic Sea. Jovanka Fufić (née Hadži-Kujundžić) was born in Livno in April 1836. Details from Travnik Parish, 13 November 2009, Travnik.
(5) Decision by the Commission designating the history building of the former convent and school of the Sisters of Mercy in Travnik, adopted at a session held from 29 January to 4 February 2008 in Sarajevo
(6) O. Kamilo Zabeo, 1932, 61
(7) The property was built in 1870 and is known as the New Serb School - O. Kamilo Zabeo, 1932, 61
(8) O. Kamilo Zabeo, 1932, 62
(9) Account by Mato Čović, a teacher at the Primary Music School in Travnik, 06.11.2009, Travnik
(10) Ruling by the Municipal Secretariat for the Economy and Finance of Travnik Municipal Council no. Up. 05/V-476-4/77 of 1.12.1977
(11) Account by Mato Čović, a teacher at the Primary Music School in Travnik, 06.11.2009, Travnik
(12) Decision on Provisional Concession of Proprietary Rights to the Serbian Orthodox Parish of Travnik over the Primary Music School, Travnik – Decision by the Government of Central Bosnia Canton, 23.03.2006, Travnik
(13) Account by Mato Čović, a teacher at the Primary Music School in Travnik, 06.11.2009, Travnik
(14) Account by Mato Čović, a teacher at the Primary Music School in Travnik, account by Goran Živković, head priest of Travnik Orthodox parish, 06.11.2009, Travnik.
After World War II this part of the façade was given a thick coat of grey paint, and it is no longer possible to make out the inscription – Srpska škola (Serb School)
(15) Letter from the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport ref. 07-40-4-4160-1/09 of 11.11.2009.
(16) Account by Mato Čović, a teacher at the Primary Music School in Travnik, who at that time (1975-2000), was principal of the Music School, 06.11.2009, Travnik
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