Status of monument -> National monument
Published in the Official Gazette of BiH, no. 53/11.
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 historic building of the Mulalić house at no. 5 Kralja Aleksandra Street in Doboj, is hereby designated as a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: the National Monument).
The National Monument is located on a site designated as cadastral plot nos. 5567, 5568, 5569, 5570 and 5571 (new survey), corresponding to 15/24, 15/53, part of 15/9 and part of 15/10 (old survey), title deed nos. 2123 and 3906, Land Register entry nos. 3567, 134 and 3518, cadastral municipality Doboj, Municipality Doboj, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The provisions relating to protection measures set forth by the Law on the Implementation of the Decisions of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, established pursuant to Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of Republika Srpska no. 9/02,70/06 and 64/08) shall apply to the National Monument.
II
The Government of Republika Srpska shall be responsible for providing the legal, scientific, technical, administrative and financial measures necessary for the protection, 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 erecting signboards with basic details of the monument and the Decision to proclaim the property a National Monument.
III
The following protection measures are hereby stipulated for the site defined in Clause 1 para. 2 of this Decision:
- research and conservation and restoration works, routine maintenance works, and works designed for the presentation of the monument shall be permitted, together with works necessary for the sustainable use of the property, including works on the interior, subject to the approval of the ministry responsible for regional planning in Republika Srpska (hereinafter: the relevant ministry) and under the expert supervision of the heritage protection authority of Republika Srpska (hereinafter: the heritage protection authority);
- during structural repair, conservation and restoration works, the same or the same types of materials shall be used wherever possible;
- the premises may be adapted to modern needs (installation of central heating and other interior works) provided that the stylistic features of the building are preserved, with the approval of the relevant ministry and under the expert supervision of the heritage protection authority.
Urgent protection measures shall be identified to protect the property and ensure it is in a suitable condition for conservation and restoration:
- survey and conduct a structural analysis of the structural elements of the buildings;
- protect the buildings from the elements.
IV
All executive and area development planning acts are hereby revoked to the extent that they are not in accordance with the provisions of this Decision.
V
Everyone, and in particular the competent authorities of Republika Srpska and urban and municipal authorities, shall refrain from any action that might damage the National Monument or jeopardize the preservation thereof.
VI
The Government of Republika Srpska, the relevant ministry and the 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 – 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.: 7.3-2.3-77/2011-13
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 18 November 2008 Sabaheta Mulalić of Doboj submitted a petition/proposal to the Commission to Preserve National Monuments to designate the late 19th century town house at No 5 Kralja Aleksandra Street in Doboj, Municipality Doboj, 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 Mulalić house at no. 5 Kralja Aleksandra Street is a rare example of a traditional 19th century town house in Doboj, distinctive in that it is a two-storey house with an upper-floor jutty of which both the ground floor and the first floor are of unfired brick and timber. The building has been inhabited without a break since the latter half of the 19th century, and is a very well preserved example of the vernacular type of house still to be found in the country’s towns.
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 and current owner and user of the property (copy of cadastral plan and copy of land register entry).
- Data on the current condition and use of the property, including a description and photographs, data of war damage, data on restoration or other works on the property, etc.
- Historical, architectural and other documentary material on the property, as set out in the bibliography forming part of this Decision.
- A letter ref. 07.3-35.2-23/2009-231 of 07.12.2009 requesting a written opinion on the proposal to designate the Mulalić house at no. 5 Kralja Aleksandra Street in Doboj as a national monument was sent to Doboj Municipality, the Institute for the Protection of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of Republika Srpska and a representative of the owner of the property, Sabaheta Mulalić.
- The views of the Doboj Municipality and of the Institute for the Protection of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of Republika Srpska have not been received.
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 Mulalić house is in Doboj town centre, at no. 5 Kralja Aleksandra Street(1). The church of the Sacred Heart is 40 m to the south on the same street, and the mosque of Donja Mahala Trnjak is the same distance to the north.
The National Monument is located on a site designated as cadastral plot nos. 5567, 5568, 5569, 5570 and 5571 (new survey), 15/24, 15/53, part of 15/9 and part of 15/10 (old survey), title deed nos. 2123 and 3906, Land Register entry nos. 3567, 134 and 3518, cadastral municipality Doboj, Municipality Doboj, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Historical information
Archaeological excavations in an around Doboj suggest that the entire area has been inhabited without a break since prehistoric times, when there were settlements in the area concentrated around the routes linking Central Europe and Pannonia with the Mediterranean. The Romans built a Castrum in the 1st century CE, stone blocks from which were used to build the Doboj fort in the 13th century. A small square and three streets took shape below the fort, around which the first houses were built to create the little town. There are indications that the town had seventy houses, occupied by traders, artisans and the guards of the fort. The earliest reference to Doboj by that name is in a letter relating to Hungary’s King Sigismund’s troops, dated 28 June 1415(2). An engraving by an Austrian spy, Captain Božić, of 1785 clearly indicates that by the 18th century there had been few changes to the town during the Ottoman period apart from laying a new footpath leading to the newly-created Muslim burial ground(3).
In 1851, near the end of the Ottoman period, the Doboj fort was abandoned by the Turkish garrison, and it was turned into a quarry. The 1879 census conducted at the start of the Austro-Hungarian period reveals that the number of houses had barely doubled during the entire Ottoman period; the little town now had about 140 houses.
The Austro-Hungarian authorities introduced a new town planning concept. Instead of expanding the narrow area of the little town that had taken shape in mediaeval times, the new authorities expanded towards the nearby level ground in the Bosna river valley. Doboj expanded first to the north-east, over Popovo Brdo. Houses continued to go up as far as the little railway station, where a square was laid out, and then on to Doboj’s main railway station, where another square was formed. A street was laid from this square across the newly-built bridge over the River Bosna, where the cavalry barracks was located. The town next expanded south-eastwards towards the Usora railway station, where workshops were built to service the station and more than thirty houses sprang up. Later, in 1892, a transverse street known as Radnička was laid from this quarter to the old town of Doboj. Finally, after World War I and the construction of embankments along the old River Bosna bed, it became possible to widen the street later named after King Alexander, who visited Doboj in 1924. The street was widened westwards, when the barracks were built and the old footpath behind the barracks leading to the village of Miljkovac was turned into a road(4). Even before this street was laid, in 1896, the church of the Sacred Heart was built there, suggesting that the street was in fact much older than this. Further evidence for this is the presence of the Mulalić house at no. 5 Kralja Aleksandra Street in Doboj, which was entered in the Land Register in 1890(5). The house was built by a member of the Đananović family, and towards the end of World War I Hasib-bey effendi Đananović sold it to the brothers Emin and Mustafa Mulalić to pay for his son’s medical training in Vienna(6). Between the two world wars the house remained in the hands of the Mulalić family, but was divided into two by the heirs in 1934(7).
The house suffered no major damage in World War II, and members of the Mulalić family continued to live there in the latter half of the 20th century.
In October 1992 the Mulalić house was abandoned, and at the end of the year it was damaged when the nearby church of the Sacred Heart was dynamited.
Half the house was repaired by members of the family immediately after the 1992-1995 war, since when that part of the house has again been occupied.
In 2007 the other half of the Mulalić house was partly repaired, but is still not permanently occupied.
2. Description of the property
The Mulalić house in Doboj belongs to the type of urban two-storey house with jutty(8) built of unfired brick and timber and with a hipped roof.
The house stands on a plot with a total area of 1263 m2, facing onto Kralja Aleksandra Street, with a front garden separating it from the street.
The house is rectangular in plan, measuring 8.08 x 9.55 m, and has two storeys, with a height of 8.18 m to the roof ridge. A partition wall divides into north and south halves, each with its own entrance. An extension has been added on both sides, the one to the north measuring 1.40 x 5.55 m and the one to the south 1.85 x 6.18 m, both about 50 cm above ground level, and each containing a bathroom measuring 1.73 x 2.00 m.
Both halves of the house have a central corridor of 3.65 x 1.66 m. To the east is a living room of 3.73 x 3.95 facing the street, and to the west a kitchen of 3.73 x 3.20 m(9).
A wooden staircase 80 cm wide leads up from the corridor to the first floor. The first floor is cantilevered out by about 15 cm beyond the ground floor on all four sides. The layout of the room echoes that of the ground floor, with a central corridor of roughly the same size and a bedroom on either side.
The façades of the house are simple in design. They are plastered and painted white, and have two-light and three-light windows on the ground and first floors. The east façade facing the street has two three-light windows of 150 x 120 cm on the ground floor and six two-light windows of 80 x 110 cm on the first floor.
The front doors, measuring 100 x 210 cm, are to the sides of the extensions to the north and south of the house. The fenestration on the rest of the façades consists of two-light windows of the same size as on the east façade. The west façade has one two-light window on the ground floor and one on the first floor.
To the west and south of the plot are a barn and a disused well, along with a number of other outbuildings.
As regards construction, the ground and first floor are both half-timbered with an unfired brick infill, resting on low stone footings. The walls are plastered inside and out, though much of the plaster inside the south half of the house has been removed. The partition wall between the north and south halves of the house, like the extensions, is of fired brick. The rooms have wooden floorboards, while the extensions and corridors have cement screed floors. The joinery is wooden, as is the staircase. The bedroom doors in the south half of the house, measuring 80 x 200 cm, are the original round-headed doors. The wooden ceiling joists project out beyond the ground-floor walls. The original wooden facing of the ceiling has survived in the bedrooms and one of the ground-floor rooms. The loft floor is partly clad with fire-proof brick. The roof trusses are wooden, and the roof is clad with plain tiles, except for the extensions, which are clad with classic [sic] tiles.
The exterior walls are 20 to 25 cm thick on the ground floor and 15 to 20 cm thick on the first floor. The ground floor ceilings are 220 cm high, the first floor ceilings are 215 cm high, and the headroom in the loft is 340 cm at the highest point. The ceilings are about 20 cm thick.
To the north and west of the house are outbuildings dating from the latter half of the 20th century and a barn.
3. Legal status to date
The Mulalić house at no. 5 Kralja Aleksandra Street in Doboj was previously subject to Category III protection under the terms of Article 3 of the Spatial Plan for Doboj Municipality, 2011(10).
4. Research and conservation-restoration works
Nothing is known of any such works on the Mulalić house in Doboj prior to 1934, but routine maintenance works were presumably carried out.
In 1934 the house was divided into a north and a south half by the addition of a brick wall running east-west. The entrance door to the house to the south-east was bricked up, and two extensions were built where the new entrances and bathrooms were located. Two of the original first-floor windows on the south façade were bricked up, and the windows on the east façade, facing the street, were widened. From then on the ground floor was used by the occupants as their living rooms and the first floor as bedrooms. The house was also provided with two chimneys, one for each half of the house, rising from the ground floor.
Routine maintenance works were carried out during the latter half of the 20th century, and most of the inside doors were replaced, except for two on the first floor of the south half of the house.
In 1966 repairs were carried out to the roof, the outside walls were plastered, broken window panes were replaced and interior refurbishments were carried out in the north half of the house, consisting of plastering all the inside walls, replacing the necessary installations, repairing the interior and exterior woodwork and other interior joinery work.
In 2007, extensive refurbishments were carried out to the south half of the house, consisting of repairing the roof, replacing the damaged first-floor windows on the south façade, partly replastering the inside walls, replacing the destroyed installations, and building an inside staircase.
In May 2010 the house was surveyed and a Bill of Quantities for partial repairs to half the house (the south half) was drawn up. These works have not yet been carried out, but the explanation accompanying the Bill of Quantities states that “for full repairs the state of the original materials of which the house was built will need to be ascertained. This relates in particular to the structure of the half-timbered walls, the ceiling joists and roof structure of the entire building(11).
In addition, the proposed works included further repairs to the roof frame and cladding, plastering the walls and ceilings, repairing the chimneys, and replacing the flooring and treads of the wooden staircase.
5. Current condition of the property
The condition of the half-timbering of the Mulalić house at no. 5 Kralja Aleksandra Street in Doboj is questionable, and needs to be surveyed by an expert. Some cracks can be seen on the outside walls. A vertical crack runs the full length between the south extension and the house itself. The roof structure and cladding are in a state of neglect, and are leaking.
The south half of the house is empty and in a state of neglect. The floors and walls are damaged, and traces of three differently-coloured coats of paint can be seen on the remains of the plaster on the inside walls. Electric wiring has been fixed to the unplastered unfired-brick walls as an interim solution.
6. Specific risks
- penetration of atmospheric damp,
- risk of structural collapse of parts of the building.
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.iii. proportions
C.iv. composition
C.vi. value of construction
D. Clarity (documentary, scientific and educational value)
D.v. evidence of a typical way of life at a specific period
E. Symbolic value
E.v. significance for the identity of a group of people
F. Townscape value
F.ii. meaning in the townscape
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.iii. completeness
The following documents form an integral part of this Decision:
- Ownership documentation
- Copy of cadastral plan nos. 5567 and 5569, c.m Doboj (new survey), title deed nos. 2123 and 3906, plan no. dgp; scale 1:1000, issued on 23.04.2010 by the RS Department of Geodetics and Proprietary Rights, Doboj branch,
- Copy of cadastral plan nos. 5569, 5570, 5571 c.m. Doboj (new survey), title deed no. 3906, plan no. dgp; scale 1:1000, issued on 14.10.2008 by the RS Department of Geodetics and Proprietary Rights, Doboj branch,
- Identification sheet for new survey plots nos. 5567, 5568, 5569, 5570 and 5571, c.m. Doboj (new survey) with details from the old survey, issued by the RS Department of Geodetics and Proprietary Rights, Doboj branch, letter ref. 21.20/624-2/10 of 22.06.2010,
- Title deed no. 2123/0, c.m. Doboj issued on 22.04.2010 by the RS Department of Geodetics and Proprietary Rights, Doboj branch,
- Title deed no. 3906/0, c.m. Doboj issued on 22.04.2010 by the RS Department of Geodetics and Proprietary Rights, Doboj branch,
- Land Register entries with history for plot nos. 15/53, c.m. Doboj, Land Register entry no. 134; no 15/10, c.m. Doboj, Land Register entry no. 3518; nos. 15/9 and 15/24, c.m. Doboj, Land Register entry no. 3567; (old survey), Nar. i Rz. no. 2480/10 of 13.07.2010, issued by the Land Registry office of the court of first instance in Doboj, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Photodocumentation
- Historic photographs of Doboj in the Austro-Hungarian period and between the two world wars - Branko B. Belić, Stari Doboj, u slici i riječi, Doboj: Prosvjeta, Udruženje distrofičara Doboj , 2003,
- Photographs of the Mulalić house in Doboj taken before 2007 by Sabaheta Mulalić,
- Photographs of the Mulalić house in Doboj taken in May 2010 by Zlatan Gojković,
- Photograph of the surroundings of the Mulalić house in Doboj taken in June 2010 by Sabaheta Mulalić,
- Photographs of the Mulalić house in Doboj taken on 9 June 2010 by architect Adi Ćorović using Sony DSC – H10 digital camera.
- Technical documentation
- Gojković Zlatan, B.Arch., Old town house at no. 5u K. Aleksandra, Doboj. Technical explanation and bill of quantities for the part repair of half the building. Doboj: Gojković Design House doo Doboj, May 2010,
- Gojković Zlatan, B.Arch. Old town house at no. 5u K. Aleksandra, Doboj. Drawings of current condition. Doboj: Gojković Design House doo Doboj, May 2010.
- Document on previous protection
- Official Gazette of Doboj Municipality no. 6, Acts of the Municipal Assembly, Decision on promulgation of the Spatial Plan for Doboj Municipality for 2011. Doboj: 1 July 1991, yr. XXVII.
- Other documentation
- Written account by Sadika Hrnjadović, ID card no. 04CVA1125, personal ID no. 2501935125029, of Osmana Pobrića Street bb Tešanj, Tešanj, 7 June 2010,
- Ruling by the court of first instance in Doboj on inheritance of the immovable property registered to title deed no. 2134, c.m. Doboj, no. 0.602/87 of 21.12.1989, Doboj.
Bibliography
During the procedure to designate the monument as a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina the following works were consulted:
1963. Kadić, Muhamed. Starinska seoska kuća u Bosni i Hercegovini (Old rural houses in BiH), doctoral dissertation. Belgrade: Faculty of Architecture, 1963.
1978. Kovačević-Kojić, Desanka. Gradska naselja srednjevjekovne Bosanske države (Urban settlements of the mediaeval Bosnian state). Sarajevo: Veselin Masleša, 1978.
2003. Belić, Branko B. Stari Doboj, u slici i riječi (Old Doboj in images and words). Doboj: Prosvjeta, Udruženje distrofičara Doboj, 2003.
(1) Until the 1992-1995 war in BiH the street was known as I. Kapetanovića Street. Official Gazette of Doboj Municipality no. 6. Akti Skupštine opštine, Odluka o proglašenju Prostornog plana opštine Doboj 2011. godine. Doboj: 1. July 1991, yr XXVII, p. 116.
(2) Desanka Kovačević-Kojić, Gradska naselja srednjevjekovne Bosanske države, Sarajevo: Veselin Masleša, 1978, 84.
(3) When the mediaeval Bosnian state fell to the Ottomans in 1463, the area north of Vranduk, including Doboj, was not immediately conquered, falling to the Ottomans in mid 1476 without a struggle. Branko B. Belić MSc, Stari Doboj, u slici i riječi, Doboj: Prosvjeta, Udruženje distrofičara Doboj, 2003, 4-6, 13, 14 and 17.
(4) Branko B. Belić MSc, op.cit, 2003, 20 and 21.
(5) Land Register entries with history for plot nos. 15/53, c.m. Doboj, Land Register entry no. 134; no 15/10, c.m. Doboj, Land Register entry no. 3518; nos. 15/9 and 15/24, c.m. Doboj, Land Register entry no. 3567; (old survey), Nar. i Rz. no. 2480/10 of 13.07.2010, issued by the Land Registry office of the court of first instance in Doboj, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
(6) The property was only later registered as the property of the Mulalić family, on 27 November 1923. Land Register entries with history for plot nos. 15/53, c.m. Doboj, Land Register entry no. 134; no 15/10, c.m. Doboj, Land Register entry no. 3518; nos. 15/9 and 15/24, c.m. Doboj, Land Register entry no. 3567; (old survey), Nar. i Rz. no. 2480/10 of 13.07.2010, issued by the Land Registry office of the court of first instance in Doboj, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
(7) Written account by Sadika Hrnjadović, ID card no. 04CVA1125, personal ID no. 2501935125029, of Osmana Pobrića Street bb Tešanj, Tešanj, 7 June 2010.
(8) Houses with jutties reflect a higher socio-economic standard and standard of living. In their original form, the ground floor of such houses in the more advanced lowland regions was not used to house livestock, but as service quarters and for storage. The living quarters were on the first floor, where the hearth was also located. The main reason for not locating the hearth on the ground floor was the absence of a proper system of smoke extraction. Exterior or interior stairs led from the ground to the first floor, and the ground-floor walls were usually stone-built. Muhamed Kadić, Starinska seoska kuća u Bosni i Hercegovini, doctoral dissertation, Belgrade: Faculty of Architecture, 1963, 57 and 58. The Mulalić house in Doboj is unusual in that the ground-floor walls are of unfired brick.
(9) The kitchen in the north half of the house contains a bath, so that the room doubles as a bathroom
(10) Official Gazette of Doboj Municipality no. 6. Akti Skupštine opštine, Odluka o proglašenju Prostornog plana opštine Doboj 2011. godine. Doboj: 1. July 1991, yr XXVII, p. 116.
(11) Gojković Zlatan, B.Arch, Stara gradska kuća u Doboju K. Aleksandra br. 5. Tehničko obrazloženje uz predmjer radova djelimične sanacije polovine objekta. Doboj: Gojković Design House doo Doboj, May 2010.
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