Status of monument -> National monument

Published in the „Official Gazette of BiH“ no. 72/11.

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 on 11 March 2011 the Commission adopted a

D E C I S I O N

I

The group of school buildings in Gimnazijska Street in Sarajevo is hereby designated as a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: the National Monument).

The architectural ensemble consists of three schools:

1. The First Grammar School (General Grammar School)

2. The Primary School (Teacher Training College) by the Drvenija Bridge, and

3. The Art School (Junior General Grammar School)(1)  

The National Monument is located on a site designated as cadastral plot no. 2061, 2062, 2059, cadastral municipality Sarajevo IV (new survey), corresponding to c.p. 135, 223 and part of 20, cadastral municipality. Sarajevo XXXIX (old survey), title deed nos. 654, 602 and 763 Land Register entry no. 63, Municipality Centar, Sarajevo, 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 area defined in Clause 1 para. 3 of this Decision, the following protection measures are hereby stipulated:

-       all works are prohibited other than conservation-restoration works, routine maintenance works, including those necessary for the sustainable operation of the property in contemporary conditions, and works designed for the presentation of the monument, subject to 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;

-       the conservation-restoration works must be based on a detailed survey of the buildings and should include a methodological approach designed to preserve the historic values of the properties;

-       all interventions on the property must be designed to preserve its authenticity to the fullest possible extent. Nothing that can be conserved may be replaced, regardless of how poor its condition may be;

-       where conservation of existing parts of the building (including final-finish materials such as plaster, paint etc.) is not possible, they shall be replaced with the same materials as those originally used, and applying the original techniques;

-       the property may be used for residential, educational and cultural purposes in a manner that shall not compromise the integrity of the building and its meaning in the townscape.

The following urgent protection measures shall be carried out to protect the buildings and to ensure that the conditions are in place for their conservation and restoration:

First Grammar School:

-       an examination and statics analysis of the structural components of the building;

-       the structural consolidation of the building and remedial works on the structural components;

-       remedial works to resolve the damp affecting the basement and ground floor premises;

Primary School by the Drvenija Bridge:

-       remedial works to resolve the damp affecting the basement premises.

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: 07.3-2.3-77/11-10

11 March 2011

Sarajevo

Chair of the Commission

Amra Hadžimuhamedović

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 7 July 2010, Mehmed Kenović of Sarajevo submitted a proposal/petition for the First Grammar School, the Secondary School of the Applied Arts and the Safvet-beg Bašagić Primary School in Sarajevo.

The architectural ensemble in Gimnazijska Street, Sarajevo, falls within the Urban Townscape of Sarajevo, which is on the Provisional List of National Monuments under serial no. 546.

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

 This group of buildings is the oldest and best-preserved group of school buildings dating from the Austro-Hungarian period in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It consists of three buildings:

1) The First Boys’ Grammar School (later known as the National Classics Grammar School, the First Classics Grammar School, and the First Grammar School), built in 1890-1891 to a design by Karel Pařik and August Butsch;

2) The Teacher Training College with primary school and boarding school (later known as the Boys’ Teacher Training College, the Teacher Training College, the Commercial Academy, the Veselin Masleša Primary School, and the Safvet-beg Bašagić Primary School), built in 1890-1891 to a design by Karel Pařik and Karel Pánek; and

3) the Junior Grammar School (later used as the Girls’ Teacher Training College, the Co-ed Teacher Training College, and finally the Art School), built in 1906 to a design by Karel Pánek.

The First Grammar School produced both of the country’s Nobel Prize winners – the writer Ivo Andrić and the chemist Vladimir Prelog.  

All three buildings were purpose-built as schools in the Austro-Hungarian period, and have undergone no change of use since they were first built. The group was designed in the historicist, largely neo-Renaissance manner, and is of considerable townscape value in the inner city area.

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:

-       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.

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. 07.3-35.2-10/10-103 of 08.07.2010 requesting documentation and views on the designation of the First Grammar School, Safvet-beg Bašagić Primary School and Secondary School of the Applied Arts in Sarajevo was sent to the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport, the Archives of BiH, the Construction Authority of Sarajevo Canton, the Institute for the Protection of the Cultural, Historical and Natural Heritage of Sarajevo Canton, the Development Planning Authority of Sarajevo Canton, Centar Municipality and the Board of the First Grammar School in Sarajevo.

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 architectural ensemble is in central Sarajevo, right next to the Drvenija Bridge, on the right bank of the River Miljacka between the embankment known as Obala Kulina bana to the south and Branilaca grada Street to the north.

The National Monument is located on a site designated as cadastral plot no. 2061, 2062, 2059, cadastral municipality Sarajevo IV (new survey), corresponding to c.p. 135, 223 and part of 20, cadastral municipality. Sarajevo XXXIX (old survey), title deed nos. 654, 602 and 763 Land Register entry no. 63, Municipality Centar, Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.  

Historical background

When the Austro-Hungarian monarchy took over Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, the new authorities found there a number of confessional or ethnically-based schools, and began by introducing a primary school curriculum. State primary schools were set up for the first time, with a common curriculum designed to suit the mission of the occupation and intended for children of different confessions

In 1879, addressing the organization of education, the Provincial Government issued the first regulations, “Basic provisions for the organization of national primary schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” dealing with specific issues relating to the development of primary education, such as the construction and maintenance of schools and the curriculum.

In 1886 the Austro-Hungarian authorities began to build primary schools, to replace the temporary or existing premises they had previously been occupying(2). By 1906 the new authorities had built no fewer than 105 primary schools(3).

At the same time, state secondary schools, grammar schools, teacher-training schools, and commercial, artisanal, agricultural and senior girls’ schools were being set up(4).

The Franciscan schools closed down, but other confessional primary schools remained open – Muslim schools (known as mektebs), Serbian Orthodox schools, Catholic primary schools run by nuns, and a meldar – a primary school for Jewish children. The school run by the educationist Miss Adeline Pauline Irby also remained open. Purpose-built schools were erected for most of these establishments.  The new education system developed in the Austro-Hungarian period marked a turning-point in the social development of Bosnia and Herzegovina(5).

Sarajevo also gained a Secondary Technical School, a Military College and a private music school, the Franjo Mačejovski School. Purpose-built premises meeting European standards were also erected for most of these schools, with science laboratories and libraries, and teachers were recruited from all over the Dual Monarchy.

The Austro-Hungarian authorities developed the education system in Bosnia and Herzegovina in line with their overall policy. The basic aim of their education policy was to create a class of educated people suited to the new administration; the authorities had no particular interest in raising the general standard of education of the population as a whole, and secondary education remained the privilege of a relatively small elite. Even so, the creation of a class of intellectuals stimulated the development of civil society in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the modernization of education had far-reaching consequences for the country’s political, economic, social and cultural development(6).

It is clear from the fact that a group of schools were built in the city centre, near the Drvenija Bridge, that the Austro-Hungarian authorities accorded considerable importance to education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in Sarajevo in particular. All these buildings were erected in the final quarter of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th in the neo-Renaissance style, which was reserved solely for the most important buildings.

The first to go up was the building that now houses the First Grammar School(7). The General Grammar School was established on 20 September 1879 by decree no. 1879/1(8) of 20 September 1879, and opened its doors on 6 November that year. Year on year a new form (grade) was introduced, so that by the academic year 1886/87 the Grammar School was an eight-form school. An application to set up a non-confessional secondary school had been submitted to Vienna at the very start of the Austro-Hungarian period and met with imperial approval, following which the Provincial Government issued a decree establishing the General Grammar School. The school’s first principal was Dr Ivan Branislav Zoch.  In the school’s first year, only 42 pupils enrolled in the first form – 16 Catholics, ten Serbian Orthodox, seven Muslims, seven Jews and two Protestants(9). The exhibition of the pupils’ work at the end of the first academic year, 1879-1880, was a cultural event for the city, and the first official exhibition to be opened in Sarajevo. Three years later, in 1883, the Grammar School won second prize at the exhibition of schools in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy held in Trieste, ahead of the grammar schools of Vienna and Pest.  That same year, it gained the status of a classics (humanities) grammar school and, with the introduction of a fifth form (grade) at the start of the 1883/84 academic year, its named was changed to the Major State Grammar School in Sarajevo(10). It was extremely well equipped to, with laboratories, classrooms and textbooks of the highest standard, equal to anywhere else in the Dual Monarchy(11). It was not until 1893 that another interconfessional state secondary school was opened, this one in Mostar, followed in 1895 by a General Grammar school in Banja Luka, and similar schools in Tuzla in 1899, in Sarajevo in 1905 (the Second Grammar School), and in Bihać in 1911(12).

In 1879 the Grammar School was housed in the Ruždija School building in Halilbašićeva Street (known as Kotorina Street in the Austro-Hungarian period). The following year the Shariah Court moved into the building, and in the academic year 1880/81 the school moved into the Vito Salom building at the corner of Jelićeva and M. M. Bašeskije Streets (part of the latter – the section from the Gazi Husrev-bey hammam to Kaukčje Abdulaha efendije street – known in the Austro-Hungarian period as Za banjom)(13)  by the Cathedral. The following academic year, 1881/82, brought another move for the school, into a nearby building also belonging to Vito Salom, at the corner of Jelićeva and Ferhadija Streets (the latter known in the Austro-Hungarian period as Prijestolonasljednikova [Heir to the Throne] Street)(14).

The purpose-built grammar school was completed in 1890/91 to a design by Karl Pařik and August Butsch. Guidelines for the building and its interior layout were provided by the principal, Ivan Zoch. The erection of the First Grammar School should be seen in the wider planning and regulatory context: the Austro-Hungarian authorities introduced building regulations as the basis for the development of a modern European city, and the First Grammar School building was erected in compliance with the 1880 Building Regulations or Bauordnung, which superseded the Ottoman Buildings and Roads Act of 1863. Under the terms of the new regulations, the adaptation of existing buildings and the erection of new ones were subject to the approval of the relevant authorities; other provisions governed the widening and regulation of streets and the way in which buildings and structures were to be erected. The building regulations also prescribed the permissible number of storeys of buildings in the city centre where the grammar school was built(17). Between 1886 and 1891, before it was built, a new street was laid to provide access to the school, named Gimnazijska Street, east of the building, through what had been town gardens(18).

In the academic year 1891/92, the State Grammar School moved into its present building. The formal move and celebration of the school’s twelfth anniversary was 6 November 1891, when the school had a total of 267 pupils(19). In 1894 the First Grammar School acquired its first teacher from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dr. Tugomir Alanpović(20). 

The number of boys attending the Grammar School increased year by year. The academic year 1903/04 is noteworthy as the year when Ivo Andrić, later to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, enrolled at the State Grammar School in Sarajevo(21).

Girls were not allowed to enrol at first, but from 1909 on they could become “guest students.” On 2 August 1918 girls were provisionally allowed to enrol, but it was not until the beginning of the 1919/20 academic year that they were given full enrolment rights(22).

During the months before the outbreak of World War I, the State Grammar School in Sarajevo became a hotbed of activity by the Mlada Bosna (Young Bosnia) organization, which opposed the Austro-Hungarian authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This led first to the suspension of all pupils’ associations in September 1914, followed in the academic year 1914/15 by the suspension by the Austro-Hungarian authorities of all classes.

After World War I, the Grammar School acquired teachers educated along new lines, in accordance with official policy of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and campaigning actively to make religious education an optional subject. With the outbreak of World War II, many of these teachers, along with many pupils, joined the armed resistance to the occupying forces on the outbreak of World War II(23).

In 1926 the Boys’ Teacher Training School began operations in the school building, for which purpose an extra storey was built on(24). The wooden ceiling joists over the second floor were reinforced by steel girders and a reinforced concrete staircase was built. The floor of the new attic storey was again clad with tavela terracotta tiles, a fire prevention measure typical of the earlier Austro-Hungarian period.  The roof trusses were of timber, and the roof was again clad with galvanized iron.

Very early in World War II, German troops took over part of the Grammar School premises; the school was confined to just two storeys, but was soon closed by an outbreak of typhus.  When the building was reopened in May 1942, it was used as a military hospital, and the school was relocated to a number of makeshift premises in the city.  Things returned to normal when the war ended in 1945, except that the Second Boys’ Grammar School was also housed in the building until 1954; when it was moved out, the Seventh Primary School moved in for a short time, before moving to the next-door building, now housing the Safvet-beg Bašagić Primary School(25).

Soon after the war the courtyard walls and gateways onto the street, common to the Grammar School and the school buildings to its north and south, were demolished.

The school continued to achieve excellent results in the latter half of the 20th century, ranking as one of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s finest schools. Though its name was changed several times, the nature of the school remained the same. It was known as the First Boys’ General Grammar School until the academic year 1952/53, when it was renamed the State Classics Grammar School. In 1960/61 it became the First Classics Grammar School, changed again the following academic year, 1961/62, to the First Grammar School.

In the academic year 1979/80 new floors were laid in every classroom and the old furniture was replaced by new(26).

On 24 May 1982 the school was renamed yet again, becoming the Revolutionary and National Heroes’ First Grammar School until September 1991, when it reverted to being the First Grammar School, the name it retains today(27). Pupil numbers rose steadily, and the school was provided with better and better facilities; its pupils achieved enviable results at competitions in culture, science and sport. In the academic year 1979/80 the number of teachers rose to 77 and of pupils to 1777, in 39 general and four classics streams(28).

The Museum of the First Grammar School in Sarajevo was opened in the school on 8 September 1990 to mark the centenary of the building and the school’s 111th anniversary – the first such public museum in the history of education in Bosnia and Herzegovina(29).

War broke out on Schools Day, 6 April 1992, causing the celebrations to be cancelled for the first time since World War II. Despite the war, the First Grammar School remained open throughout the 1992-1995 war, while the building also became a shelter for refugees(30).

In May 1992 the Museum exhibits and other important documentation were transferred to the Sarajevo Archives. In early winter 1992 the broken window glass was replaced by plastic sheeting, so that the premises could be heated by makeshift solid-fuel stoves.

On 17 February 1993 the school was submitted to a barrage of shelling, leaving the second-floor classrooms in ruins and destroying part of the second-floor façade. Further damage was inflicted on 2 June 1994 by a large-calibre shell that smashed through the roof and brought down the ceiling, after which the building was affected by damp(31). Immediately following this incident, international organizations provided the means to rebuild the damaged façade wall and classrooms on the second floor, now housing the IT classrooms. Damage to the roof in the summer of 1995 was remedied by winter, but the building was affected by atmospheric damp for almost six months(32).

Since the war the First Grammar School in Sarajevo has remained in existence as one of nine grammar schools in Sarajevo. About 800 pupils study there each year, and the school has retained its multiethnic character(33).

Works on the roof and conservation-restoration works on the façade began on 20 September 1999(34). The works included the installation of a ramp at the main entrance and a lift in the entrance lobby, both for use by people with special needs. The works were completed in 2000, finally making the building weatherproof. The funds for these works were provided by USAID and the Government of Sarajevo Canton. At the same time, the school was provided with new equipment thanks to donations by foreign ambassadors and other funds(35). The Education Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina was laid out as a multimedia centre, and the library and laboratories were equipped to high European standards(36).

An exterior chimney for the boiler room was constructed north of the building in 2003.

The school’s 130th anniversary was celebrated in 2009, in the presence of leading local and foreign delegations. Some 40,000 pupils had graduated from the school since it first opened its doors, many of who had achieved outstanding results in science, culture or sport, and the school had proved itself to be a major factor in the educational and cultural life of Sarajevo and of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a whole.

In 1892, on completion of the First Grammar School building, the building now housing the Primary School by the Drvenija Bridge was completed.

Prior to this, in 1882, pursuant to a decree by the Provincial Government for Bosnia and Herzegovina, a teacher-training course had been introduced in Sarajevo, becoming a full-time teacher-training college in 1886(37). The college acquired its own premises in Gimnazijska Street, between the First Boys’ Grammar School and the Drvenija Bridge over the Miljacka, in 1891(38).

The premises were purpose-built in 1890/91 to a design by Karl Pařik and Karel Pánek. The teacher training college included a primary school, and the building also provided boarding for 45 pupils(39). It had ten classrooms, three laboratories and other essential premises. The college initially provided a three-year course, extended in 1900 to a four-year course, which continued until the outbreak of World War I(40). The school also had a garden with an area of 3000 sq.m. where practical training in various aspects of agriculture was provided(41).

The teacher training school was also built in compliance with the 1880 Bauordnung, which governed the widening and regulation of streets and the way in which buildings and structures were to be erected, and also prescribed the permissible number of storeys of buildings in the city centre where the school was built. On the right bank of the Miljacka, buildings were restricted to three storeys from the City Hall to Drvenija Bridge and to two storeys from the Drvenija to the Skenderija Bridge; along the latter stretch they were also required to have gardens facing the river(42).

The curriculum was designed along the same lines as those of other teacher training colleges in the Dual Monarchy. In 1912 the school was renamed the “Sarajevo Boys’ Preparandija” (German Präparandschule – teacher-training college)(43).

In 1914 the Boys’ Teacher Training College moved to Derventa(44), leaving only the Girls’ Teacher Training College (Preparandija), established by decree of the Provincial Government of 28 August 1911, in Sarajevo(45).

After World War I, the Boys’ Preparandija returned to Sarajevo, and was renamed the Boys’ Teacher Training College(46). It remained a separate institution until the academic year 1934/35, when it merged with the Girls’ Teacher Training College(47) and moved to the building where the latter was housed, now the School of the Applied Arts(48). The building where the Boys’ Preparandija had been housed was now used only by the primary school.

Just before World War II the State Business Academy(49) moved into the building, remaining there throughout the war(50).

The Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Primary School operated in the building from 1952. It was renamed the Veselin Masleša Primary School on 24 September 1974(51). 

Central heating was installed in 1977(52), and the school yard was paved in the 1980s, when routine maintenance works were also carried out.

The building was shelled and damaged during the 1992-1995 war. On 12 October 1993 it was given the name it still retains, the Safvet-beg Bašagić Primary School(53). Classes were suspended or curtailed from time to time during the war, and most of the classes were held in makeshift premises elsewhere (local ward premises, cellars or private houses). Following works carried out in 1996, the school returned to normal and full-time classes were resumed.

In 1997 a design for a PE hall was produced(54), to be built at basement-level in the school yard, with the entrance from the basement premises currently used by first-form pupils as a PE hall, which were to be converted into changing rooms and a gym with various apparatus. The PE hall was designed to have a steel-framed roof with overhead lighting.

In May 1998 the Čema architects’ studio of Sarajevo drew up a planning project for the refurbishment of the garage of the First Grammar School(55), providing for an entrance through the passageway between the Safvet-beg Bašagić Primary School to the east and the residential property to the west, but the project was never executed.

In May 2010 the courtyard walls and gateway were rebuilt, with a playground within the walls(56).   Covered metal steps were built in the playground to provide access to the side entrance to the school on the north side.

The group of buildings was completed in the summer of 1906 with the completion of the school now housing the Secondary School of the Applied Arts, originally the home of the Mala realka or Junior General Grammar School(57) on the corner of Gimnazijska and Branilaca grada Streets.

The first design for the building was drawn up in 1895 by Karel Pánek, when the intention was to house the New Boys’ Primary School in the building(58), on the site next to the Grammar School and Boys’ Teacher Training College. Just a year earlier, Pánek and Karl Pařik had completed the design and execution of the Boys’ Teacher Training College in the same block, to which the design produced for the new school was very similar.

Karel Pánek amended his design in 1895, with provision for the Girls’ Primary School(59) in the new building. He proposed locating the main entrance to the north, facing Branilaca grada Street, with a blank wall facing Gimnazijska Street, but this design was rejected. Pánek’s final design of 1905 was used, with the main entrance onto Gimnazijska Street, and in 1906 work began on the Mala Realka building, which until then had been housed in the Technical School building(60).

The Girls’ Teacher Training School (Preparandija) was founded in 1911, with classes taking place in the building now housing the Secondary School of the Applied Arts(61).

The Girls’ and Boys’ Teacher Training Colleges were merged in the academic year 1935/36 and renamed the Co-ed Teacher Training College, with pupils from the next-door school moved there(62).

After World War II, the school was renamed the Nurija Pozderac Teacher Training College(63), but soon closed down, and the building was occupied by the Secondary School of the Applied Arts(64), then known as the Art School in Sarajevo(65). An extra storey was added to the school at this time.

The Secondary School of the Applied Arts made a considerable contribution to the development of the fine and applied arts during the latter half of the 20th century(66). 

With the outbreak of the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, almost two-thirds of the teachers and pupils fled, but consultative classes and a curtailed curriculum were maintained, even though refugees were housed in the building. The building took several hits, damaging the roof, façades and interior, and the glass in the windows was broken(67).

Work began on the building in the summer of 1997, financed by Kulturkontakt-Austria, the Austrian Ministry of Education and Culture and donations from Austrian schools. The roof was in poor condition and damp was entering the building; all the façades were damaged, including the decorative mouldings and the string courses and cornices, the east façade had been breached by armour-piercing shells, and the staircase to the first floor was broken. Extensive works were carried out, involving the brickwork, metal work, door and window furniture, glazing, flooring, stonework, tiling, plastering and painting, wallpapering and some work on the façades, and repairs were also carried out to the plumbing(68).

The following year, 1998, insulation works were carried out, funded by HOPE 87. That same year the basement of the School of the Applied Arts in Sarajevo was adapted, entailing building works and the installation of new services (plumbing and electricity). All the bearing structural elements were retained, with only a number of partition walls demolished. Before these works, the north-west room, with an area of 62.50 sq.m., was used as a sculpture studio(69), and the other basement areas were used as coal and wood stores and so on. The wood store to the north-east was converted into a gallery of 63 sq.m, and the coal store to the south east became the school café of 47 sq.m. The middle store room was converted into a toilet block(70).

The school currently has about 200 pupils and 30 teachers. It has been following a new curriculum since 1994, but with the traditional emphasis on the basic arts disciplines  Pupils are given the opportunity to learn a range of techniques, from graphics, painting and sculpture to metalworking and making both traditional and modern clothes.

2. Description of the property

The group of schools in Gimnazijska Street in Sarajevo (the First Grammar School, the Primary School by the Drvenija Bridge and the Art School) constitute a single streetscape with neo-Renaissance elevations facing east onto Gimnazijska Street. The group is almost symmetrical, with the First Grammar School in the middle, flanked to the north and south by the almost identical Primary School and Art School buildings. The main entrances of all three open onto Gimnazijska Street, with side entrances onto the school yard between the First Grammar School and the Primary School by the Drvenija Bridge and a passageway between the First Grammar School and the Art School and to the rear (west). The First Grammar School and the Art School each have a basement, ground floor, three upper storeys and an attic storey. 

The First Grammar School in Sarajevo is roughly rectangular in plan, with sides of 51.55 x 2550 m.  It has six storeys (basement, ground, three upper storeys and attic), with a height to the roof eaves of 20.80 m and to the roof ridge of 23.20 m. It is in the historicist, neo-Renaissance style.

The main entrance is midway along the east front, through a substantial double-valved door of 1.45 x 3.20 m with a semicircular fanlight(71). This is flanked on either side by another two identical entrances into a vestibule(72) of 7.60 x 6.90 m, from which steps lead to a hallway 2.20 m wide and 384 m long running north-south. To the west, the hall leads to a central triple-flight staircase 2.00 m in width(73). To the north and south of the staircase are two symmetrical atria of 8.20 x 6.60 m, serving as light wells(74).

At the northernmost and southernmost ends of the building are rooms of 6.15 x 9.30 opening onto the hallway. To the north, the room is subdivided into two, containing laboratories, while to the south are service quarters and a double-flight fire-prevention stairway leading to the south side entrance(75). 

The First Grammar School Museum is located on the ground floor, to the south-east, in two interconnecting rooms of 8.70 x 6.50 m and 9.25 x 6.95 m. To the north-east are two symmetrically located rooms of the same size housing a small PE hall and changing rooms(76). 

On the west side of the building is a range of rooms 6.90 m wide at a lower level than the central staircase and hallway. Seen from the south, the first is a large PE hall, 25.90 m long, followed by a changing room 8.40 m long, a staff room 5.40 m long, a classroom and service quarters connecting with the boiler room in the basement.

The layout of the first, second and third floors is similar to that of the basement: a triple-flight central staircase leading to a corridor running north-south, with light wells to either side of the staircase, as on the ground floor. The upstairs rooms differ in use, being mainly classrooms and staff rooms.

The school admin offices are on the first floor, facing east.  The first room is the principal’s office, with an antechamber, measuring 9.25 x 6.95 m overall, followed by a common room of 13.70 x 6.50 m and the deputy head’s office of 5.60 x 6.50 m. At the southernmost end are classrooms of 10.90 x 6.50 m and 9.25 x 6.95 m respectively.

The west-facing rooms on the first floor are of the same width (6.90 m) as those on the ground floor. A biology demonstration room 12.05 m in length occupies the northern end, followed by a laboratory, to the south of which is a classroom 8.10 m long, which is separate from the school library of 10.90 m in length. At the southernmost end is a room 12.05 m long housing the archives and accounts office. In the middle of the building on either side is a classroom or service quarters of 6.15 x 8.30 m overall.

The layout of the second floor differs from that of the first in that the east side consists not of staff rooms but of five classrooms of the same width as the rooms on the floor below. To the west are a chemistry demonstration room and laboratory over the biology laboratory, with another three classrooms next to them.

The third floor layout is similar to that of the second floor, differing in that it has a theatre hall of 12.05 x 6.90 m with a five-metre-long stage on the south-west side. To the north is a double-flight staircase leading from the third floor to the low attic storey.

The basement(77), in the south-east part of the building, is 1.80 m below the level of the street to the east. It measures 20.75 x 10.00 m overall, including the 2 metre wide basement hallway. The boiler room, which is at the same level, is on the opposite, north-west side, and is entered from the west.

The façades are of a distinctly historicist, neo-Renaissance style. All the openings are rectangular except for the three arched entrances in the east front and the attic windows facing Gimnazijska Street. A linear string course runs around the building above the rusticated ground floor with deeply recessed joints. Between the first and second floor is a wider string course with dentils along the windowsills, while above the second floor is a wide string course(78).

The east front is a strictly symmetrical composition with two shallow risalits to the sides, with 17 two-light windows with overlights to each storey, measuring 1.20 x 2.45 m: eleven in the central section, and three each on the risalits, except for the ground floor, where the windows are replaced by three arched doorways of 1.45 x 3.20 m with mascarons on the keystones. The first-floor windows are surmounted by moulded pediments, and the second-floor windows by architraves. At attic level, each risalit has six arched windows of 0.80 x 1.50 m; the basement has a total of seven rectangular windows of 0.90 x 0.60 m.

In terms of composition the west front is similar to the east, except that it has no risalits to the sides, so that all 17 windows are on the same plane. On the ground floor, one of the windows is replaced by an entrance doorway of 1.30 x 2.20 m and the entrance to the basement boiler room, measuring 0.90 x 2.05 m. 

The north and south ends of the building each have six windows per storey, all of the same size; at the east end, all the windows are blind. The south end has a side entrance of 0.90 x 2.10 m; at the north end is the boiler-room chimney, a modern structure, square in section and 25.00 m in height.

The materials used to build the First Grammar School building were brick for the exterior and interior bearing walls, and timber for the joists. The original stone staircase has been removed and replaced by a concrete staircase clad with artificial stone(79), retaining the original balustrade. The back stairs to the south leading up from the ground floor, and the back stairs to the north leading from the third floor to the attic, are the original stone stairs with iron balustrades and wooden handrails(80). 

The entire façade is rendered, with no distinct stone socle. The roof trusses are wooden, and the roof is clad with galvanized iron. The exterior and interior joinery is wooden, the flooring is modern (the hallways floored with artificial stone, and the classrooms and other rooms have parquet, vinyl or tiled floors), except for the attic, where the old tavela tiles have survived. As noted above, the two-light windows with overlights measure 1.20 x 2.45 m; the interior double-valved doors measure 1.35 x 2.40 m.

The foundations of the outer bearing walls are 90 cm thick, and those of the interior bearing walls are 77 and 66 cm, the thickness being reduced by the width of half or a full brick. The basement ceiling is a brick vault resting on steel girders running east-west. The interior partition walls are 30 cm, 20 cm and 12 cm thick.

The maximum headroom in the basement is 2.50 m; the ground-floor, first-floor and second-floor ceilings are five metres high, and those of the third floor are 4.50 m high. The interstorey structure is 50 cm thick.

The Primary School and Art School buildings were designed by the same architect or co-designers, and are very similar, the architect’s intention being to emphasize the symmetrical nature of the entire group as a symbol of the order and discipline of Austro-Hungarian educational institutions. The ground plans are almost identical: the main entrance to the east opens onto a longitudinal hallway, flanked by classrooms and other premises to the north and south. Directly opposite the main entrance, below the staircase, is the rear, west entrance to the school. The original east fronts of the schools, facing Gimnazijska Street, were almost identical, differing only in the number of storeys: the Art School was given an additional storey, and now has a basement, ground floor, three upper storeys and an attic.

The Primary School near the Drvenija Bridge in Sarajevo is rectangular in plan, with sides of 26.90 x 15.50 m, and has a basement, ground floor, two upper storeys and an attic, with a height to the eaves of 16.85 m and to the roof ridge of 21.20 m. In style, it matches the First Grammar School, being designed in the historicist, neo-Renaissance manner.

The main entrance is in the central axis of the east front, through a substantial double-valved door of 1.90 x 3.40 m with a semicircular fanlight. This opens into a storm porch of 4.80 x 3.20 m, with eight steps leading to the central ground-floor hall in the axis of the main entrance.

The ground floor is simple in layout, with a central hallway running east-west, 17.00 m long and 3.30 m wide, with a double-flight stone staircase at the west end of the same overall width as the hallway.  The hall is flanked to the north and south by classrooms, offices and other premises, all six metres wide.

To the south, as seen from the east, is a range of classrooms 9.90 m in length for the use of first-form pupils, followed by the principal’s and secretary’s office and a common room 7.50 m in length.  To the north is a classroom 7.50 m in length, a 2.50 m wide passageway connecting the rear, north entrance and the central hallway, the school kitchen, a toilet block, and a room with an overall length of 9.85 m, for the pupils’ after-hours activities.

To the west is a side entrance of 1.65 x 3.05 m leading into a smokers’ room, a later extension of 3.20 x 6.00 m.

The layout of the first and second floors is the same as that of the ground floor: a central corridor flanked by classrooms and laboratories of the same width as the ground-floor rooms. The first floor has two classrooms each 10.00 m long with the school library between to the south, and two classrooms, an IT laboratory and a toilet block to the north. To the east the corridor has been partitioned off to provide a workshop. The second floor houses music and art rooms, the pedagogue’s office and other premises.

The attic storey has four laboratories for second-form pupils, together with a multifunctional room to the east, measuring 6.00 x 16.80 m and designed for teaching activities, as a staff room, and for exhibitions.

The basement is 2.40 m below the level of the street to the east, and contains storerooms and a PE hall of 5.80 x 15.20 m to the north-east, used by first-form pupils.

To the north of the building, next to the First Grammar School, is the school yard, with a playground of 28.00 x 14.00 m. The yard is separated from Gimnazijska Street by a wall 2.20 m high, with a central arched gateway of 2.05 x 3.80 m.

The façades are in the neo-Renaissance style. All the openings are rectangular, and the ground floor is rusticated. A linear string course divides the ground floor from the upper storeys. Between the first and second floors is a wide string course running along the window sills, and above the second storey is a roof cornice of the same design as the one on the First Grammar School building.

The east front is a symmetrical composition with five two-light windows with overlights, measuring 1.40 x 2.45 m, on each floor. On the ground floor, the middle window is replaced by an arched entrance of 1.90 x 3.40 m with the head of a youth with twisted horns on the keystone, modelled on the figure over the entrance to the First Grammar School next door. The sculptural elements were moulded in plaster of Paris and then coated with plaster. The first-floor windows are surmounted by moulded pediments and the second-floor windows by architraves.

In terms of design, the south façade, facing Obala Kulina bana, and the north façade, facing the school yard, are a continuation of the east, entrance front. Each storey has ten identical windows, differing only in that the first-floor windows of the south façade are surmounted not by pediments but by decorative festoons(87).

The west front is similar in composition to the east, except that it has only a ground-floor entrance of the same size and shape as its counterpart, with directly above it one window on each storey, measuring 2.10 x 1.80m. This façade cannot be seen in its entirety from Obala Kulina bana on account of the residential property built to its immediate west in the latter half of the 20th century and of the ground-floor extension designed as a garage.

The Art School is trapezoid in plan, with overall dimensions of 28.10 x 15.50 m, and has six storeys (basement, ground floor, three upper floors and attic storey), with a height to the roof eaves of 16.85 m and to the roof ridge of 24.30 m. Stylistically, it is in the same manner as the Boys’ Teacher Training College which was built earlier.

The main entrance is in the central axis of the east front, through a substantial double-valved door of the same size and shape as that of the Primary School by the Drvenija Bridge. It opens onto a storm porch with a stone staircase leading to the central ground-floor hallway in the axis of the main entrance.

The ground floor is of simple layout, modelled on the design of the Boys’ Teacher Training College: a central east-west hallway 3.30 m wide with a double-flight stone staircase at the west end. To the north and south are classrooms, freestyle drawing and sculpture studios, a toilet block and other rooms, all with a width of 6.00 m to the south of the central hallway is a side corridor 1.40 m wide with stone steps leading to a side entrance of 1.00 x 2.00 m with overlights.

The layout of the first and second floors is the same as that of the ground floor: a central corridor with classrooms on either side, of the same width as those on the ground floor.

The eastern end of the first-floor corridor has been partitioned off to make a separate room for the teachers. To the north-east is the staff common room, with an overall length of 6.00 m, and to the south-east are the principal’s offices. In addition, to the north are freestyle drawing studios with their original wooden shutters to black out the windows, and to the south are classrooms.

The school library is at the east end of the second-floor corridor, with classrooms to the north-east and south-east, and painting and freestyle drawing studios and other rooms to the north and south.

The third floor, a later addition, houses textile and metalwork studios and rooms where advertising design is taught.

The basement is about 2.10 m below the level of the street to the east, with an entrance under the stairs at the west end of the ground floor. The main room in the basement is the school gallery to the north-east; to the south-east is the school café. The other areas are used for storage, except for a room to the north-west, with an area of 63 sq.m. which has been used as a sculpture studio since the late 1970s.

All the windows of the Art School are rectangular, and the ground floor is rusticated. A linear string course divides the ground floor from the upper storeys. Between the first and second floors is a wide string course running along the window sills, and above the second storey is a roof cornice of the same design as the one on the Primary School building.

The east front of the Art School matches that of the Primary School by the Drvenija Bridge, differing only in the mascaron over the entrance doorway, which is the head of a young man with curved horns, and in having an additional, third storey with windows of the same size as those on the storeys below.

The south and north façades face the passageway between the Art School and the First Grammar School and onto Branilaca grada Street respectively, and in design constitute a continuation of the east entrance front. Modelled on the façade of the Primary School near the Drvenija Bridge, each storey has a rank of ten identical windows. These differ from those on the east front in that the first-floor windows are surmounted not by pediments but by shallow rectangular mouldings(88).

The west front is the rear of the building, abutting to the north onto a residential property built in the early part of the latter half of the 20th century along Branilaca grada Street. It has a central rear entrance(89), with above it a four-light stairwell window of 2.20 x 2.40 cm.

The outer and interior bearing walls of the Primary School and the Art School are of brick, like those of the First Grammar School building, and the original joists were wooden. The original staircase was of stone, with a wrought iron balustrade and wooden handrail. The façades have a stone socle and are rendered above.

The roof trusses are wooden and the cladding is galvanized iron. The exterior and interior joinery is wooden, except for the side entrances which have metal doors, and some of the interior joinery. The two-light windows with overlights measure 1.40 x 2.45 m.

The Primary School has parquet, artificial stone, tiled and other floors. The corridors of the Art School retain their original 20 x 20 cm stone flags. The steps are of stone, and the classrooms have parquet or composition floors; the toilet blocks and gallery have tiled floors.

The foundations of the outer bearing walls are 90 cm thick, and those of the interior bearing walls are 77 and 66 cm, the thickness being reduced by the width of half or a full brick. The basement ceiling is a brick vault resting on steel girders running east-west. The interior partition walls are 30 cm, 20 cm and 12 cm thick.

The maximum headroom in the basement is 3.30 m; the ground-floor and upper storey ceilings are 4.80 m high, and the maximum headroom in the attic is 3.20 m. The interstorey structure is 50 cm thick.

3. Legal status to date

The group of school buildings in Gimnazijska Street in Sarajevo is on the Provisional List of National Monuments of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments under serial no. 546 as part of the Urban Townscape of Sarajevo.

            According to the information provided by the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport(90), the First Grammar School building in Sarajevo is listed but is not on the register of cultural monuments; the Primary School by the Drvenija Bridge in Sarajevo is listed as the Boys’ Primary School, Sarajevo, no. 1 Zmaj Jovina Street, but is not on the register of cultural monuments; and the Art School in Sarajevo is listed as the Girls’ Primary School, Sarajevo, no. 5 Zmaj Jovina Street, but is not on the register of cultural monuments.

The First Grammar School is listed by the Institute for the Cultural and Natural Heritage of Canton Sarajevo under item 7 as part of heading 6.2.01 – schools, boarding schools, but is not on the register of cultural monuments. Under the same heading, the Primary School by the Drvenija Bridge in Sarajevo is listed as the Boys’ Primary School and Teacher Training College (Safvet-beg Bašagić Primary School), corner of Obala Kulina bana and Gimnazijska Streets, as item. 5; and the Art School in Sarajevo is listed as the Boys’ Primary School(91), corner of Zelenih beretki (Branilaca grada) and Gimnazijska Street, as item 2.

The group of school buildings on Gimnazijska Street in Sarajevo (the First Grammar School, the Primary School by the Drvenija Bridge and the Art School in Sarajevo) is covered by the Development Programme for the Urban Centre of Sarajevo (Official Gazette of Sarajevo Canton no. 13/00). This programme provides for executive documentation for a planning project entitled “Grammar School/garage” to be drawn up for the area bounded by Gimnazijska Street, Obala Kulina bana and the passageway by the Academy of the Performing Arts, and including the plot on which the Bosnian Cultural Centre stands. The documentation is to be drawn up in association with the Institute for the Cultural and Natural Heritage of Sarajevo Canton(92).

4. Research and conservation-restoration works

No comprehensive investigative or conservation-restoration works have ever been carried out on the buildings in the group, though routine restoration works have been carried out, and extensions and additional storeys have been added, various adaptations have been introduced, and conservation-restoration works have been carried out on the façades. The intensive conservation-restoration and other works were carried out on the various buildings after the 1992-1995 war did not constitute systematic works on the buildings, and were conducted by a variety of investors and contractors.

On 20 September 1999, work began on the roof of the [First Grammar School] building, along with conservation-restoration works on the façade(93).

In 2004 a study for damp-proofing works on the First Grammar School was produced(94), but the work was never carried out for lack of funds, even though it was found that the extensive presence of damp was affecting the statics of the building. The study noted that the 190 sq.m. basement was so damp that it was not in use; the damp was largely the result of the penetration of atmospheric moisture, and only partly due to rising damp. The same was true of the damp noted on the outside of the ground-floor walls. This was caused by the absence of secondary rainwater drainage, inadequate guttering and downpipes, and the poorly surfaced pedestrian areas around the building and outside walls. The proposed remedial works consisted of the introduction of extra hydroinsulation, resurfacing the pedestrian areas around the building and making good the guttering and downpipes, and of introducing an injection damp course to prevent rising damp.  The estimate cost of these works was about 140,000 KM.

There is no information on investigative or conservation-restoration works on the Boys’ Teacher Training College (now the Primary School by the Drvenija Bridge) during the Austro-Hungarian or inter-war periods. The building is in a very good state of preservation, suggesting that routine maintenance works were carried out systematically. No particular conservation-restoration works were carried out on the façades after World War II. 

Following the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, thorough conservation-restoration works were carried out on the façades, along with other works. In October 1996 an agreement was entered into between representatives of the Ministry of Culture and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia and of the Safvet-beg Bašagić Primary School, governing the donation of funds used the following year to repair the roof and to carry out conservation-restoration works on the façade and other works in the interior.  Part of the basement was converted into a PE hall, and an outbuilding – the school garage – was built to the west, later converted into a smokers’ room. The classrooms were adapted to meet modern teaching standards, and the school acquired an IT laboratory.

In January 1997 Tasling inžinjering doo Sarajevo drew up a project entitled “Outline project for the revitalization of the attic of the Safvet-beg Bašagić Primary School,” (95)  providing for the attic to be converted into teaching premises with a total area of 411.00 sq.m., consisting of classrooms, a multifunctional room and toilet block, all with overhead lighting. A variation on the design was executed, removing the original central staircase to the attic and adding further flights to the west staircase leading from the second floor to the attic.

Routine maintenance works were systematically carried out during the Austro-Hungarian and interwar periods on the Art School, as a result of which the building is in a relatively good state of preservation. The original blueprints from the Austro-Hungarian period show the courtyard wall and gateway that were removed after World War II.

No particular conservation-restoration works were carried out after World War II, but the building was given an additional, third floor.

Following the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, thorough conservation-restoration works were carried out on the façades and the interior. Partial conservation-restoration works were carried out on the façades in 1997(96). In July 1998 the Institute for the Protection of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of Sarajevo Canton drew up a study for the colour finish of the School of the Applied Arts in Sarajevo(97). The study included photographs of the building showing the serious damage to the façades, string courses, cornices and mouldings, and a colour plan. That same year thorough conservation-restoration works were carried out, including repairs to the damaged mouldings and the reconstruction of the stone helmeted head over the entrance on the east front, which had been destroyed.

5. Current condition of the property

All the buildings in the group are in very good structural condition, though there is a real risk of deterioration, mainly because of the failure to prevent atmospheric damp entering the basement and foundation walls of the First Grammar School building, and to a lesser extent the basement of the Primary School. After the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, thorough conservation-restoration and other works were carried out on the damaged buildings, which made the roofs watertight. The schools are kept routinely maintained and are well equipped.

Since the completion of the works carried out since the last war the First Grammar School building has been maintained to an exemplary standard.  The repairs to the roof trusses and cladding, the façades and the damaged exterior woodwork have eliminated the cause of damp penetration in most of the building. The problem of atmospheric and capillary damp in the basement and ground-floor walls remains unresolved. The principal cause is the downpipes, from which rainwater flows onto the surrounding pavement and thence into the basement. There is a consequent risk of damage to the structural system of the building in the foreseeable future. The school museum on the ground floor is at risk for the same reason.

The Primary School by the Drvenija Bridge in Sarajevo is very well maintained. There is a damp problem in the PE hall in the basement, where the inside walls are so damp that the hall cannot be used, despite being aired at frequent intervals.

All the floors in the building have been replaced, and the original metal stair rail has been painted an unsuitable colour. The school playground is immaculately maintained.

Following repairs to the roof trusses and cladding, the façades and the damaged exterior woodwork of the Art School in Sarajevo, the causes of damp penetration have been eliminated in most of the building. Despite this, the roof still leaks slightly in very wet weather.

The electric wiring is dilapidated, as is the plumbing. Old drainage pipes can be seen in the basement. The building is relatively well equipped and very well maintained, and is still used as a teaching establishment, as it has been since the Austro-Hungarian period.

6. Specific risks

-       penetration of atmospheric and capillary damp

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

D.         Clarity (documentary, scientific or educational value)

D.iii.     work of a major artist or builder

E.         Symbolic value

E.v.      significance for the identity of a group of people

F.         Townscape value

F.ii.       meaning in the townscape

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

G.         Authenticity

G. i.      form and design

G.ii.      material and content

G.iii.     use and function

G.v.      location and setting

I.          Completeness

I.i.         physical coherence

I.ii.        homogeneity

I.iii.       completeness

I.iv.       undamaged condition

The following documents form an integral part of this Decision:

-       Ownership documentation

-       Copy of cadastral plan for c.p. no. 2061, 2062 and 2059, c.m. Centar Sarajevo IV (new survey), title deed no. 72654, 602 and 7637, plan no. Sarajevo - 148; scale 1:1000 (old survey c.p. no. 135, 223 and part of 20, c.m.. Sarajevo XXXIX), issued on 14.07.2010 by the Department of Proprietary Rights, Geodetics and Cadastral Affairs, Centar Municipality, Sarajevo Canton, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina;

-       Land Register entry for plot no. 135, 223 and part of 20, c.m. Sarajevo XXXIX, Land Register entry no.63 (old survey), no. 065-0-Nar-II 010-042696 of 15.07.2010, issued by the Land Registry Office of the Municipal Court in Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina;

-       Historical records for Land Register entry no 63, no. 065-0-Rz-10-4461 of 30.092010, issued by the Land Registry Office of the Municipal Court in Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

-       Documentation on previous protection of the property

-       Letter from the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport no. 07-40-4-2860-1/10 of 15.07.2010;

-       Letter from the Development Planning Authority of Sarajevo Canton no. 02-23-4293/10 of 12.07.2010.

-       Photodocumentation

-       Historical photograph of the First Grammar School in Sarajevo from the Austro-Hungarian period - Ibrahim Krzović. Arhitektura  Bosne i Hercegovine, 1878.-1918. Sarajevo: Art Gallery of BiH, 1987, 76;

-       Historical photographs of the interior of the Arts and Crafts Institute taken in 1908 - Magbul Škoro. Pozdrav iz Sarajeva. Sarajevo: Graphic Car, 2002, 50;

-       Photographs of the First Grammar School in Sarajevo taken by architect Igor Palinić in July 2010 using Sony DSC-H10 digital camera;

-       Photographs of the First Grammar School in Sarajevo taken by architect Adi Ćorović on 6 September 2010 using Sony DSC-H10 digital camera;

-       Historical photograph of the Boys’ Teacher Training School in Sarajevo, taken in 1892 - Branka Dimitrijević. Arhitekt Karl Paržik, doctoral dissertation. Sarajevo: Faculty of Architecture of the University of Zagreb, July 1989, ill. 5;

-       Photographs of the Primary School in Sarajevo taken by architect Igor Palinić in July 2010 using Sony DSC-H10 digital camera;

-       Photographs of the Primary School in Sarajevo taken by architect Adi Ćorović on 6 September 2010 using Sony DSC-H10 digital camera;

-       Historical photographs of the Art School in Sarajevo taken in the 1980s - Ibrahim Krzović. Arhitektura  Bosne i Hercegovine, 1878.-1918. Sarajevo: Art Gallery of BiH, 1987;

-       Photographs of the Art School in Sarajevo taken by architect Adi Ćorović on 22 September 2010 using Sony DSC-H10 digital camera.

-       Technical documentation

-       Original blueprints of the Grammar School from 1890 and 1891 and drawings of the extension from 1925 – Archives of the First Grammar School in Sarajevo, 6 September 2010;

-       Report on elimination of damp in the First Grammar School, Nedim Čehajić BSc Eng, Sarajevo, December 2004 – letter from the Principal of the First Grammar School in Sarajevo ref. 301/10 of 24.08.2010;

-       Technical drawing of the east front of the First Grammar School in Sarajevo, Igor Palinić, Sarajevo, July 2010;

-       Original blueprints of the Primary School from the Austro-Hungarian period and drawings of the east front in 1925 - Archives of the First Grammar School in Sarajevo, 6 September 2010;

-       Čavar P. and Šilić M. Technical drawing of the Veselin Masleša Primary School. Sarajevo: Sarajevo Construction Authority, May 1977;

-       Bralim Metal Corp, project for the installation of central heating in the Primary School. Sarajevo, June 1977;

-       Mirela Imširija and Aida Subašić. Outline project for the revitalization of the roof space of the Safvet-bey Bašagić Primary School. Sarajevo: Tasling inžinjering doo Sarajevo, January 1997;

-       ENCO, Sarajevo. Project: PE Hall, Safvet-beg Bašagić Primary School. Sarajevo, 1997;

-       Hasan Čemalović, Čema Architects’ Studio. Planning project for the refurbishment of the Garage of the First Grammar School, Sarajevo, May 1998;

-       Nermina Nanić. Programme for the repair, restoration, reconstruction and repainting of the First Grammar School in Sarajevo –1999;

-       Technical drawings of the east façade of the Primary School, Igor Palinić, Sarajevo, July 2010;

-       Original blueprints by Karel Pánek of the Art School from the Austro-Hungarian period, drawings of the east and north façades, 1905. Source: Study for the colour-finish of the façade of the School of Applied Arts in Sarajevo, history of the building Sarajevo: Cantonal Institute for the Protection of the Cultural, Historical and Natural Heritage, Sarajevo, 1998;

-       Fikret Karkin BScEng, Technical Report (on works on the Art School building), Sarajevo: Hope 87 Sarajevo, June 1997;

-       Study for the colour-finish of the façade of the School of Applied Arts in Sarajevo, history of the building Sarajevo: Cantonal Institute for the Protection of the Cultural, Historical and Natural Heritage, Sarajevo, 1998;

-       Doxat Engineering Sarajevo: Main project for the adaptation of the basement of the School of Applied Arts in Sarajevo. Sarajevo, July 1998;

-       Technical drawing of the east façade of the Art School in Sarajevo, Igor Palinić, Sarajevo, July 2010.

-       Other documentation

-       Letter ref. 765/-1/10 of 15.11.2010 from the Cantonal Institute for the Protection of the Cultural, Historical and Natural Heritage, Sarajevo.

Bibliography

During the procedure to designate the property as a national monument the following works were consulted:

1972     Papić, Mitar. Školstvo u Bosni i Hercegovini za vrijeme austrougarske okupacije (Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Austro-Hungarian occupation). Sarajevo: Veselin Masleša, 1972

1973     Bejtić, Alija. Ulice i trgovi Sarajeva (Streets and squares of Sarajevo). Sarajevo: Sarajevo Museum, 1973

1984     Papić, Mitar. Školstvo u Bosni i Hercegovini 1918-1941 (Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1918-1941). Sarajevo: Veselin Masleša, 1984

1987     Krzović, Ibrahim. Arhitektura  Bosne i Hercegovine, 1878.-1918 (Architecture of BiH 1878-1918). Sarajevo: Art Gallery of BiH, 1989

1988     Spasojević, Borislav. Arhitektura stambenih palata austrougarskog perioda u Sarajevu (Architecture of Austro-Hungarian period mansion blocks in Sarajevo). Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 1988

1988     Kurto, Nedžad. Arhitektura secesije u Sarajevu (Architecture of the Secession in Sarajevo), doctoral dissertation. Zagreb: University of Zagreb, 1988

1989     Dimitrijević, Branka. Arhitekt Karl Paržik (Architect Karl Pařik), doctoral dissertation. Sarajevo: Faculty of Architecture of the University of Zagreb, 1989

1998     Kurto, Nedžad. Arhitektura Bosne i Hercegovine – Razvoj bosanskog stila (Architecture of BiH – development of the Bosnian style). Sarajevo: Sarajevo Publishing, MCM, 1998

1999     Bukvić, Zlata et.al. Prva gimnazija – 120 godina Prve gimnazije u Sarajevu, 1879-1999 (First Grammar School – 120 years of the First Grammar School in Sarajevo, 1879-1999). Sarajevo: First Grammar School, Sarajevo, 1999

2002     Škoro, Magbul. Pozdrav iz Sarajeva (Greetings from Sarajevo). Sarajevo: Graphic Car, 2002

2007     Gačanin, Ešrefa. Prva gimnazija Sarajevo, 1879-2007 (First Grammar School Sarajevo, 1879-2007). Sarajevo: First Grammar School, 2007

2007     Kalajdžisalihović, Fahira. Monografija O.Š. Safvet-beg Bašagić, 115 godina zgrade i 55 godina osnovnog obrazovanja (Monograph of the Safvet-beg Bašagić Primary School). Sarajevo: Safvet-beg Bašagić Primary School, 2007

2009     Školstvo u BiH u austrougarskom periodu (1878.-1918.), Education in BiH during the Austro-Hungarian period [1878-1918]). Archives of BiH, March 2009

2010     http://www.arhivsa.ba/vodic/413.htm  6 July 2010. sign.UŠ-125

2010     http://www.arhivsa.ba/vodic/413.htm  6 July 2010. sign. PŽRG-177

2010     http://www.prva-gimnazija.edu.ba/historijat.html  24 August 2010

2010     http://www.ossbb.edu.ba/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54:o-koli&catid=35:o-koli&Itemid=54  24 August 2010

2010     http://www.camo.ch/basagic.htm.  20 September 2010

2010     http://www.artschoolsa.edu.ba/index.htm 24 August 2010

(1) Translator’s note: the world “gimnazija” is translated as “grammar school” as being the closest English equivalent to the “gymnasium” of Austria, Switzerland and other European countries.

(2) Papić, Mitar, Školstvo u Bosni i Hercegovini za vrijeme austrougarske okupacije, Sarajevo: Veselin Masleša, 1972, 52

(3) Kalajdžisalihović, Fahira, Monografija O.Š. Safvet-beg Bašagić, 115 godina zgrade i 55 godina osnovnog obrazovanja, Sarajevo: Safvet-beg Bašagić Primary School, March 2007, 5-7.

(4) Školstvo u BiH u austrougarskom periodu (1878.-1918.), Archives of BiH, March 2009

(5) Školstvo u BiH u austrougarskom periodu (1878.-1918.), Archives of BiH, March 2009

(6) Školstvo u BiH u austrougarskom periodu (1878.-1918.), Archives of BiH, March 2009

(7) The First Grammar School in Sarajevo is the oldest secular multi-ethnic secondary school in Bosnia and Herzegovina - http://www.prva-gimnazija.edu.ba/historijat.html  24 August 2010

(8) Zlata Bukvić et.al., Prva gimnazija – 120 godina Prve gimnazije u Sarajevu, 1879-1999, Sarajevo: First Grammar School, Sarajevo, 1999, 7.

(9) Zlata Bukvić et.al., op. cit, 1999, 7.

(10) The school was renamed on 30 August 1883, when Greek became a compulsory subject for all pupils except those who parents gave formal notification that their children would not pursue their education beyond the fourth form (grade). The school was again renamed in 1992, becoming the I gimnazija or First Grammar School. Zlata Bukvić et.al., op. cit, 1999, 7, 11 and 12.

(11) http://www.prva-gimnazija.edu.ba/historijat.html  24 August 2010.

(12) Zlata Bukvić et.al., op. cit, 1999, 7 and 11.

(13) Alija Bejtić, Ulice i trgovi Sarajeva, Sarajevo: Muzej grada Sarajeva, 1973, 245

(14) The real reason for the move was the great fire that swept through Sarajevo in August 1879, destroying the purpose-built school. Zlata Bukvić et.al., op. cit., 1999, 11

(15) Branka Dimitrijević, Arhitekt Karl Paržik, doctoral dissertation, Sarajevo: Faculty of Architecture of the University of Zagreb, July 1989, 2 and 3.

(16) Nedžad Kurto, Arhitektura secesije u Sarajevu, doctoral dissertation, Zagreb: University of Zagreb, 1988,  81

(17) Borislav Spasojević, Arhitektura stambenih palata austrougarskog perioda u Sarajevu, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 1988, 15 and 16. The 1880 Building Regulations made it mandatory for applications for a building or conversion permit to be accompanied by two copies of the working project, cutting out local designers without the skills to draw up such projects. New materials were introduced, above all fired brick, and the use of timber-framing was effectively banned. Nedžad Kurto, Arhitektura Bosne i Hercegovine – Razvoj bosanskog stila, Sarajevo: Sarajevo publishing, MCM, 1998, 19 and 20.

(18) Today street again bears its original name of Gimnazijska Street.  From 1919 to the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina the street was named after the poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833-1904), except for a brief period in World War II when it was known as Školska (School) Street. Alija Bejtić, op.cit., Sarajevo:  Sarajevo Museum, 1973, 393.

(19) Excluding the cost of the land, the construction of the building cost 153,101.63 florins. The original building had three storeys, with a fourth added in 1926.  Zlata Bukvić et.al., op.cit., 1999, 11

(20) Školstvo u BiH u austrougarskom periodu (1878.-1918.), Archives of BiH, March 2009

(21) Ivo Andrić was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. Vladimir Prelog, another alumnus of the Grammar School, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1975, Zlata Bukvić et.al., op.cit., 1999, 14 and 15.

(22) The number of girls enrolling grew apace, and in the academic year 1923/24 a Girls’ Grammar School was opened in Sarajevo and the original grammar school became the First Boys’ Grammar School. Zlata Bukvić et.al., op.cit., 1999, 13. 

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(23) Zlata Bukvić et.al. op. cit, 1999, 17.

(24) Zlata Bukvić et.al., op.cit. Prva gimnazija – 120 godina Prve gimnazije u Sarajevu, 1879-1999., Sarajevo: First Grammar School, Sarajevo, 1999, 18, 19 and 21.

Karl Pařik himself, who was by now in retirement, was probably consulted over this extension. Branka Dimitrijević, op.cit., 1989, 87.

(25) In the early post-war years a short grammar school course, the Partisans’ Grammar School, was introduced for combatants whose education had been cut short. Administratively speaking, this was part of the First Boys’ Grammar School.  Zlata Bukvić et.al., Prva gimnazija – 120 godina Prve gimnazije u Sarajevu, 1879-1999., Sarajevo: First Grammar School, Sarajevo, 1999, 18 and 19.

(26) Zlata Bukvić et.al., op.cit., 1999, 27.  The original stone staircase was replaced by a new one, retaining the old balustrade. 

(27) Zlata Bukvić et.al., op.cit., 1999, 21.

(28) Zlata Bukvić et.al., op.cit., 1999, 21.

(29) Zlata Bukvić et.al., op.cit., 1999, 27.

(30) The refugees were housed in the classrooms and laboratories, and the school library became the home of a family. Two people living in the school died, and three children were born there/ Ešrefa Gačanin, Prva gimnazija Sarajevo, 1879-2007, Sarajevo: First Grammar School, 2007, 3.

(31) Though classes continued in these difficult circumstances, some were held in a number of alternative locations in the city.  Zlata Bukvić et.al., op.cit., 1999, 30 and 36.

(32) The laboratories on the third floor, which were destroyed with the roof in the summer of 1995, have never been fully repaired. Zlata Bukvić et.al., op.cit., 1999, 61.

(33) Ešrefa Gačanin, op.cit., 2007, 3.

(34) Zlata Bukvić et.al., op.cit., 1999, 32.

Nermina Nanić, Program sanacije, restauracije, rekonstrukcije i kolorističke obnove zgrade Prve gimnazije u Sarajevu – Cantonal Institute for the Protection of the Cultural, Historical and Natural Heritage, Sarajevo: 1999

(35) The worst damage was to the PE halls, which were wrecked while in use by refugees. Ešrefa Gačanin, op.cit., 2007, 4.

(36) Ešrefa Gačanin, op.cit.,, 2007, 4.

(37) By decree of the Provincial Government in October 1886, the “education facility for assistant teachers” was turned into a full-time teacher-training college. The “education facility” had originally operated with a primary school in a building at Bentbaša. Mitar Papić, op.cit., 1972, 90.

(38)  Mitar Papić, op..cit., 1972, 90.

(39) Mitar Papić, op.cit., 1972, 92.

(40) Mitar Papić, op.cit., 1972, 90

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(41) Mitar Papić, op.cit., 1972, 91.

(42) After the embankment then known as Appel Quay was built and the Miljacka was regulated in 1896, the provisions relating to the number of storeys were amended and a number of taller buildings were erected along the embankment: the Theatre, the Main Post Office, the Law Courts and so on. Borislav Spasojević, Arhitektura stambenih palata austrougarskog perioda u Sarajevu, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 1988, 15 and 16.

Nedžad Kurto, Arhitektura Bosne i Hercegovine – Razvoj bosanskog stila, Sarajevo: Sarajevo publishing, MCM, 1998, 19 and 20.

(43) That year the Girls’ Teacher Training College opened in Sarajevo. Mitar Papić, op.cit., 1972, 90

(44) Mitar Papić, op.cit., 1972, 92.

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(45) First report of the Girls’ Teacher Training College in Sarajevo,1912, 20. - Mitar Papić, op.cit., 1972, 98.

(46) Mitar Papić, op.cit., 1972, 92

(47) Fahira Kalajdžisalihović, Monografija O.Š. Safvet-beg Bašagić, 115 godina zgrade i 55 godina osnovnog obrazovanja, Sarajevo: Safvet-beg Bašagić Primary School, March 2007, 7.

(48) Mitar Papić, Školstvo u Bosni i Hercegovini 1918-1941, Sarajevo: Veselin Masleša, 1984, 85 and 86

(49) The State Business Academy was founded in Sarajevo in October 1911. Mitar Papić, op.cit., 1984, 131

(50) At that time the principal of the school was Atif Hadžikadić, who was also serving as Lord Mayor of Sarajevo at the time. He was executed in 1945 for collaborating with the occupying forces, but the school remained open. In 1945 the pupils had to have their previous records certified to enable them to complete their education. The school issued leaving certificates until 1948. History and geography were taught there by Academician Hamdija Kreševljaković. Fahira Kalajdžisalihović, Monografija O.Š. Safvet-beg Bašagić, 115 godina zgrade i 55 godina osnovnog obrazovanja, Sarajevo: Safvet-beg Bašagić Primary School, March 2007, 8.

(51) At that time classes were held in the main building as well as in the school building on the corner of present-day Branilaca grada Street, built in 1904 to a design by Josip Vancaš. The school there was originally the primary school run by the Sisters of Mercy.

(52) Bralim Metal Corp. Project for the installation of central heating. Sarajevo: June 1977

Čavar P. and Šilić M. Tehnički snimak O.Š. „Veselin Masleša“. Sarajevo: Construction Authority of Sarajevo, May 1977   

(52)http://www.ossbb.edu.ba/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54:okoli&catid=35:okoli&Itemid=54  24 August 2010.

He attended the Sarajevo Grammar School from 1885 to 1895, followed until 1899 by oriental languages and history at Vienna University, where he edited his first anthology of poems (Trofanda iz hercegovačke dubrave). In 1900 he launched the periodical Behar, and in 1903 he founded the Gajret society.  In 1908 he went to Vienna to compose his dissertation, entitled “Die Bosniaken und Hercegovcen auf dem Gebiete der islamischen Literatur,” which he defended in 1910. That same year he was elected as a member of the Bosnian parliament, where he was soon appointed as speaker. from 1919 to his retirement in 1927 he worked as curator in the National Museum in Sarajevo. http://www.camo.ch/basagic.htm 20 September 2010

(54) The design, by the Sarajevo-based firm ENCO, was for a hall of 32.00 x 22.50 m. The outline cost estimate was about 300,000 KM, but the project was never executed.

(55) Hasan Čemalović, Čema architects’ studio. Urbanistički projekat uređenja “Garaža I gimnazija”. Sarajevo, May 1998

(56) The school playground was built with donations from the Turkish Government, and opened on 6 May 2010

(57) N. Kurto, op.cit., 1988, 82. The Mala realka in Sarajevo was the last Austro-Hungarian period secondary school to open its doors in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It provided a four-year education, and was closed down at the end of World War I. Mitar Papić, op.cit., 1972, 120

(58) Ibrahim Krzović, Arhitektura Bosne i Hercegovine, 1878.-1918, Sarajevo: Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1987, 74 and 117

(59) Ibrahim Krzović, op.cit., 1987, 75 and 117

(60)  N. Kurto, op. cit., 1988, 82

(61) Mitar Papić, op.cit., 1984, 85

(62) The school changed names several times: State Co-ed Teacher Training College, Teacher Training College, Boys’ Teacher Training College, Girls’ Teacher Training College, Queen Marija’s Co-ed Teacher Training College, Co-ed Teacher Training College. Fahira Kalajdžisalihović, op.cit., 2007, 8.

(63)  http://www.arhivsa.ba/vodic/413.htm. 6 July 2010. Sign.UŠ-125

(64) The Arts and Crafts School in Sarajevo, the predecessor of the Secondary School of the Applied Arts, was founded in 1886 and operated as an artisans’ workshop training young people until 1892, when it became a recognized school with boarding facilities. Mitar Papić, op.cit., 1972, 145 and 146

(65) The real property was nationalized in 1947. History of Land Register entry no. 63, no. 065-0-Rz-10-4461, Sarajevo: 30.09.2010, Municipal Court in Sarajevo

(66) The school’s pupils and teachers have won more than 50 leading city, republic and federal awards (the 6th April award of the City of Sarajevo, the 27 July award of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the ZAVNOBiH award and the AVNOJ award of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. http://www.artschoolsa.edu.ba/index.htm  24 August 2010

(67) A missile weighing 52 kg hit the school in the summer of 1993, smashing the top part of the portal, damaging the ceiling, breaking two steps and landing on the floor of the ground-floor corridor, where refugees were gathered, without exploding. http://www.artschoolsa.edu.ba/index.htm  24 August 2010

(68) Fikret Karkin, BSc Eng. Tehnički izvještaj. Sarajevo; Hope 87 Sarajevo, June 1997

(69) The basement had already been partly adapted in 1978

(70) Doxat Engineering Sarajevo. Glavni projekat adaptacije podruma Škole primijenjenih umjetnosti u Sarajevu. Sarajevo: July 1998 (funded by HOPE 87)

(71) On the south side of the building is a side entrance opening onto a fire-prevention stairway of 1.00 x 2.20 m facing onto the playground of the Primary School next door, built during the same period. To the west are another two side entrances of 1.30 x 2.20 m and 0.90 m x 2.05 m, the first opening from the ground floor onto the rear courtyard and the second leading into the basement boiler room via steps 110 cm wide.

(72) The south wall bears a stone plaque erected in 1955 to mark the school’s 75th anniversary, “in lasting memory of the pupils and teachers of this school who fought as combatants and cultural workers for the liberation of our peoples from Austro-Hungarian occupation and to the glory and in memory of the pupils and teachers who were active in the resistance to the traitorous quisling regimes in our country and who gave their lives in the war of national liberation to create our brilliant life today for socialism.” The north wall bears a memorial plaque erected in 1980 in honour of the teachers and pupils who had been proclaimed national heroes: Cvitković Miljenko, Čajavec Rudi, Dokić Petar, Džonlić Jusuf, Engel Elijas, Goranin Pavle, Haćam Midhat, Jovanović Josip, Keljanović Milić, Novaković Grujo, Prica Ognjen, Stojanović Mladen, Tomanović Vlado and Šperac Lovro.

(73) The balustrade is original, but the stone stairs have been replaced by steps clad with artificial stone.

(74) Between the south atrium and the central staircase is a staircase leading down to the basement.

(75) Next to the service quarters to the south is the school canteen, of the width of the atrium, with which it is connected by steps.

(76) The original design differs somewhat from the present-day appearance of the building. The original plan was for the offices and the principal’s flat to be on the ground floor, to the north, with a separate entrance from the west.  Where the museum now is, in the south-east part of the ground floor, there was to have been servants’ quarters and a library. The original design also included a school yard wall and gateway. Branka Dimitrijević, op.cit., 1989, p. 87 and table 4d

(77) The basement is beneath the school museum on the ground floor

(78) Branka Dimitrijević, op.cit., 1989, 87

(79) The later staircase to the third floor was originally made of concrete between the two world wars.

(80) The back stairs to the north were built in the 1920s when the extra storey was added to the building.

(81) There is also a side entrance to the west and a rear entrance to the north.

(82) To the north is a side entrance opening onto the school playground, which is bounded to the north by the First Grammar School building.

(83) In the original layout, the south-east part of the ground floor housed a PE hall, now divided into two separate rooms.

(84) This entrance, which measures 1.30m x 2.50 m, was created by removing the parapet of the window facing the school playground. It leads to metal steps, and is now mainly used for security reasons, since the school playground is walled and has its own gateway from Gimnazijska Street.

(85) This was built as a school garage, entered from Obala Kulina bana, the road separating the building from the River Miljacka to the south.

(86) The wall was reconstructed in the 21st century on the basis of the original blueprints from the Austro-Hungarian period

(87)  Branka Dimitrijević, op.cit., 1989, 88

(88) On the north façade, facing Branilaca grada Street, are decorative festoons modelled on those on the north façade of the Safvet-beg Bašagić Primary School by the Drvenija Bridge.  Branka Dimitrijević, Arhitekt Karl Paržik, doctoral dissertation, Sarajevo: Faculty of Architecture of the University of Zagreb, July 1989, 88

(89) The opening measures 1.00 x 2.20 m, and is fitted with a modern metal door.

(90) Letter from the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport ref. 07-40-4-2860-1/10 of 15.07.2010.

(91) This evidently relates to the first, 1895 design for the school, which was not executed.

(92) Letter from the Development Planning Authority of Sarajevo Canton ref. 02-23-4293/10 of 12.07.2010.

(93) Zlata Bukvić et.al., op.cit., 1999, 32.

Nermina Nanić. Program sanacije, restauracije, rekonstrukcije i kolorističke obnove zgrade Prve gimnazije u Sarajevu. – Cantonal institute for the Protection of the Cultural and Natural Heritage, Sarajevo: 1999.

(94) Elaborat o sanaciji vlage u prostorima I gimnazije, Nedim Čehajić BSc Eng, Sarajevo, December 2004.

(95) Mirela Imširija and Aida Subašić. Idejni projekat revitalizacije potkrovlja O.Š. Safvet-beg Bašagić. Sarajevo: Tasling inžinjering doo Sarajevo, January 1997.

(96) Fikret Karkin, BScEng. Tehnički izvještaj. Sarajevo; Hope 87 Sarajevo, June 1997

(97) Institute for the Protection of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of Sarajevo Canton. Elaborat kolorističke obrade završnog sloja Škole primijenjenih umjetnosti u Sarajevu. Sarajevo, July 1998