Status of monument -> National monument
Pursuant to Article V para. 4 Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Article 39 para. 1 of the Rules of Procedure of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, at a session held from 6 to 9 September 2011 the Commission adopted a
D E C I S I O N
I
The architectural ensemble of the Church of St Vincent de Paul with convent and school in Sarajevo is hereby designated as a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: the National Monument).
The National Monument consists of the church, convent and school buildings, the inner courtyard, and movable heritage consisting of ten wooden sculptures (the remains of an altar).
The National Monument is located on a site designated as cadastral plot nos. 1793/1, 1793/2, 1793/3, 1793/4, 1793/5, 1799, 1800/1, 1800/2, 1800/3, 1800/4, 1802/1, 1802/2 and 1802/3, cadastral municipality Centar Sarajevo IV (new survey), corresponding to c.p. nos. 190, 194 and 399, c.m. Sarajevo XXXIX; c.p. nos. 398, 376, 229, 206, 350, 207, 101, 208, 33 and 192, c.m. Sarajevo XLVIII (old survey), Land Register entry nos. XXXIX/41, XXXIX/151, XXXIX/196, XLVIII/114 (part), XLVIII/174, XLVIII/244 and XLVIII/245, Centar Municipality, 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, and works designed to display the monument, subject to the approval of the Federal Ministry responsible for regional planning (hereinafter: the relevant ministry) and under the expert supervision of the heritage protection authority of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: the heritage protection authority);
- original materials and binders shall be used wherever possible during the structural repair, conservation and restoration works;
- geomechanical tests on the soil and a statics analysis of the foundations of the church and other buildings in the ensemble shall be carried out;
- the convent and school may be adapted to bring them up to modern standards (installation of central heating and other interior works), provided that the stylistic characteristics of the buildings are preserved, and subject to the approval of the relevant ministry and under the expert supervision of the heritage protection authority;
- the erection of structures in the inner courtyard that would compromise the statics, structural, physical, communications, formal and compositional integrity of the architectural ensemble is prohibited;
- the structural components of the Church of St Vincent de Paul and the monastery should be consolidated, creating the conditions for their restoration to their condition prior to being damaged;
- the Government of the Federation shall provide the conditions required to produce a project for remedial works on the inner courtyard and making good the damage caused by the construction of the underground garage.
The following protection measures are hereby prescribed for the movable heritage referred to in Clause I para. 2 of this Decision (hereinafter: the movable heritage):
- the Government of the Federation shall provide suitable physical and technical conditions for the safe-keeping of the movable heritage;
- all interventions carried out on the movable heritage shall be performed by a qualified person, subject to a study approved by the Federal Ministry of Culture (hereinafter: the ministry responsible for culture) and under the expert supervision of the heritage protection authority;
- the display and other forms of presentation of the movable heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina shall be effected under the terms and conditions stipulated by the ministry responsible for culture;
- supervision of the implementation of the protection measures pertaining to the movable heritage shall be exercised by the ministry responsible for culture.
IV
The removal of the movable heritage from Bosnia and Herzegovina is prohibited.
By way of exception to the provisions of paragraph 1 of this Clause, the temporary removal from Bosnia and Herzegovina of the movable heritage for the purposes of display or conservation shall be permitted if it is established that conservation works cannot be carried out in Bosnia and Herzegovina or can be carried out to a higher standard and more quickly and cheaply abroad.
Permission for temporary removal under the conditions stipulated in the preceding paragraph shall be issued by the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, if it is determined beyond doubt that it will not jeopardize the movable heritage in any way.
In granting permission for the temporary removal of the movable heritage, the Commission shall stipulate all the conditions under which the removal from Bosnia and Herzegovina may take place, the date by which the items shall be returned to the country, and the responsibility of individual authorities and institutions for ensuring that these conditions are met, and shall notify the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the relevant security service, the customs authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the general public accordingly.
V
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.
VI
Everyone, and in particular the competent authorities of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Canton, and urban and municipal authorities, shall refrain from any action that might damage the National Monument or jeopardize the preservation and conservation thereof.
VII
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 VI of this Decision, and the Authorized Municipal Court shall be notified for the purposes of registration in the Land Register.
VIII
On the date of adoption of this Decision, the National Monument shall be deleted from the Provisional List of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of BiH no. 33/02, Official Gazette of Republika Srpska no. 79/02, Official Gazette of the Federation of BiH no. 59/02, and Official Gazette of Brčko District BiH no. 4/03), where it featured under serial no. 525.
IX
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)
X
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.
XI
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: 07.3-2.3-77/11-24
7 September 2011
Sarajevo
Chair of the Commission
Ljiljana Ševo
E l u c i d a t i o n
I – INTRODUCTION
Pursuant to Article 2, paragraph 1 of the Law on the Implementation of the Decisions of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, established pursuant to Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a “National Monument” is an item of public property proclaimed by the Commission to Preserve National Monuments to be a National Monument pursuant to Articles V and VI of Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina and property entered on the Provisional List of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of BiH no. 33/02) until the Commission reaches a final decision on its status, as to which there is no time limit and regardless of whether a petition for the property in question has been submitted or not.
On 25 January 2011 the Sisters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul, Province of Our Lady, Sarajevo, submitted a petition to the Commission to Preserve National Monuments to designate the Church of St Vincent de Paul at no. 42 Marshal Tito Street in Sarajevo as a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
On 3 February 2011 the Sisters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul, Province of Our Lady, Sarajevo, submitted a petition to the Commission to Preserve National Monuments to designate the Church of St Vincent de Paul, the Convent, and the St Vincent Secondary School of Medicine and Polyclinic in Sarajevo as a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Commission to Preserve National Monuments issued a decision to add the Church of St Vincent de Paul in Tito Street, Sarajevo, to the Provisional List of National Monuments of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, under the name St Vitus’s Chapel, serial no. 525.
The architectural ensemble of the Church of St Vincent de Paul in Sarajevo is part of the Marshal Tito Street townscape in Sarajevo, itself forming part of the Townscape of Sarajevo, which is on the Provisional List 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
The architectural ensemble of the Church of St Vincent de Paul in Sarajevo is of great townscape and historical value as part of the streetscape of Marshal Tito Street. The church is the oldest extant church of the Austro-Hungarian period in Sarajevo.
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 statutory 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:
- Letter ref. 07.3-35.2-8/11-11 of 28 January 2011 requesting documentation and views on the designation of the Church of St Vincent de Paul in Sarajevo was sent to the Archives of BiH, the Federal Ministry of Regional Planning and the Environment, the Construction Authority of Sarajevo Canton, the Institute for the Protection of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of Sarajevo Canton, the Development Planning Authority of Sarajevo Canton, the Historical Archives of the City of Sarajevo, the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport, the Society of Sisters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul in Sarajevo and Centar Municipality;
- The Federal Ministry of Regional Planning responded in letter ref. 03-23-2-125/11 dated 2 February 2011 stating that it had no information relating to the Church of St Vincent in Sarajevo;
- The Institute for the Protection of Monuments of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport responded in letter ref. 07-40-4-391-1/11 dated 7 February 2011 stating that the property was not previously under statutory protection;
- The views of the owner are expressed in the petition submitted.
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 architectural ensemble of the Church of St Vincent de Paul in Sarajevo lies along Šenoina Street, and is bounded to the north by Tito Street and to the south by Branilaca grada Street. The church and convent stand on the south side of Tito street, at the corner of Šenoina Street; the school to the south is on the corner of Šenoina and Branilaca grada Streets.
The National Monument is located on a site designated as cadastral plot nos. 1793/1, 1793/2, 1793/3, 1793/4, 1793/5, 1799, 1800/1, 1800/2, 1800/3, 1800/4, 1802/1, 1802/2 and 1802/3, cadastral municipality Centar Sarajevo IV (new survey), corresponding to c.p. nos. 190, 194 and 399, c.m. Sarajevo XXXIX; c.p. nos. 398, 376, 229, 206, 350, 207, 101, 208, 33 and 192, c.m. Sarajevo XLVIII (old survey), Land Register entry nos. XXXIX/41, XXXIX/151, XXXIX/196, XLVIII/114 (part), XLVIII/174, XLVIII/244 and XLVIII/245, Centar Municipality, Sarajevo Canton, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Historical background
The first Sisters of Charity, whose patron saint is St Vincent de Paul, came to Sarajevo in the late Ottoman period, on 13 November 1871(1). The “White Sisters,” (2) as they were known, almost immediately opened a girls’ school in Sarajevo with about 50 pupils(3).
In 1874, the parish priest, Fr. Grga Martić, purchased a plot of land on the Miljacka river-bank, where a bishop’s residence, school and convent for the Sisters of Charity were built. The new school was a two-storey building with six rooms, and cost 1440 forint to build(4).
A fire that broke out in about 1879 destroyed the convent, forcing the nuns to take up temporary residence in Zagreb, returning to Sarajevo in February 1880(5).
Just after Bishop Josip Stadler came to Sarajevo on 14 June 1882, he purchased a plot of land at the corner of Čemaluša Street (now Tito Street) and Kezmanova Street (now Šenoina Street) and donated it to the Sisters of Charity to build a church, convent and school. A building permit was obtained on 8 May 1883, and the first part of the complex was completed on 19 November that year(6). The architect was probably Josip Vancaš(7), who designed most of the Catholic religious buildings in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Austro-Hungarian period(8). By 1883 both the church and the convent, where classes were held, had been built at the corner of Tito and Šenoina Streets(9); the separate school building (School and Institute of the Sisters of Charity) at the corner of Šenoina and Branilaca grada Streets (the latter known as Franje Josipa Street in the Austro-Hungarian period) was added in 1904(10).
The Church of St Vincent de Paul is the oldest extant Catholic church of the Austro-Hungarian period in Sarajevo(11).
A fifth-grade senior girls’ school with seven pupils was opened in the convent as soon as the nuns moved in, in 1883. Another grade was added each year over the next few years, and a children’s playground was also opened(12).
In 1893 a two-storey house was built in the school yard to provide accommodation for an instructor in catechism, and also for three boys at a time from poor families, along with the staff of the nuns’ commercial enterprise, Lurda, at 61 Čekaluša Street.
In 1899, the primary school had 206 pupils and the senior girls’ school had 45. The number of pupils rose steadily, making it necessary to enlarge the school twice, in 1888 and 1899(13).
A few years later, in 1902, the interior of the Church of St Vincent was painted by Dragutin Inchiostri Medenjak(14). The murals were lost during the 1992-1995.
In 1904, when Dr. Ivan Šarić was appointed as principal of the St Vincent Institute, a purpose-built school was erected to house the nuns’ school and institute. The building, which was designed by Josip Vancaš(15), formed an extension to the existing school and convent building at the south end of present-day Šenoina Street. A 25-year loan of 107,000 crowns was taken out for the purpose(16).
The purpose-built school was erected in compliance with the design directives of the new building regulations, the 1893 Bauordnung for the provincial capital city of Sarajevo, which supplemented the first Austro-Hungarian building regulations issued in 1880(17).
In 1908, when the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina was promulgated, 500 Austro-Hungarian soldiers were housed in the St Vincent Institute, causing considerable damage to the complex(18).
In 1912 the operations of the Institute’s school were inspected, and the findings resulted in the senior girls’ school and primary school receiving pravo javnosti [lit. right of publicity/public quality, presumably meaning they became public schools – in the US not the UK sense – Trans]. In July 1914 the school was occupied by Austro-Hungarian troops(19).
The Church of St Vincent was restored for the first time in 1921(20); there is no surviving account of these works.
In 1925 part of the courtyard was acquired, and in the spring of 1926 work began on laying out a playground, garden and orchard(21).
In late 1931 a soup kitchen was opened in the St Vincent Institute, remaining open throughout World War II(22).
In 1939 a vocational crafts school was opened in the institute, with 31 pupils in its first year(23).
On 13 April 1941, during the aerial bombing of Sarajevo, the windows and doors of the school were blown out, and much of the furniture was destroyed. Almost immediately after this, German soldiers moved into the school, causing considerable damage(24).
In 1945 the National Liberation Army moved into the school, and the property of the Institute of St Vincent de Paul was declared to be state property(25).
During this immediate post-war period, the statue of St Vincent de Paul, which occupied a niche in the school building to the south-east of the complex, was removed.
The primary school archives for the school years 1880/81 to 1994/45 were handed over following an order from the Ministry of Education no. 2411 of 11 February 1946(26).
Records show that in 1947 and 1948 the St Vincent Convent had only ten nuns(27), who looked after the Church, and that the stained-glass window of St Vincent and the Orphans was installed in the sanctuary in 1948(28).
In 1949 the Sisters of Charity were forced to move into part of the ground floor of the building in Tito Street. The complex was vacated in June that year, when the nuns moved to Kraljeva Sutjeska, except for one nun who remained in Sarajevo to look after the Church of St Vincent de Paul. The building was occupied by the Film Distribution Co. of BiH(29).
The interior of the Church of St Vincent was restored during the period 1962-65; the works were led by Ljubo Novaković, under the expert supervision of Sister Ivana Berhmana Šimeta, an academic painter from Zagreb. In line with the new church regulations, the altar was turned to face the nave, and the statues and paintings were moved(30). At the same time, a modern office building was erected, adjoining the church to the west.
Throughout the latter half of the 20th century, until 1992, the Convent was a multifunctional social centre, with a photoclub, café and students’ centre. The local gun club’s firing range was located in the inner courtyard, entered through a passageway from Šenoina Street. In the 1960s an office block for GP Vranica was built in the same courtyard, on the south side facing Branilaca grada Street, adjoining the school built in 1904. During that period the building was used by the Veselin Masleša Primary School.
In 1992 the roof of the Church of St Vincent de Paul took several shell hits, damaging the interior and destroying a canvas by Gabrijel Jurkić, Martha and Mary(31). The 1948 stained glass window of St Vincent and the Orphans was also destroyed(32).
The roof and interior of the church were repaired in October 1996(33).
In 1997 a project for the restoration of the old Convent building was drawn up to provide accommodation for the St Vincent Health Care Institute. The project was drawn up by the Žepče-based firm Tadić projektiranje i inženjering (design and engineering). Most of the work was completed during 1998, but the health institute did not begin operations.
The 1904 school building was restored in the 2000’s, when the façade was redone and the exterior woodwork was replaced by white PVC. The attic storey was adapted to house the administrative staff. The hallways and the original stone staircase were clad with non-slip tiles. The classrooms were suitably fitted out, and the entire interior, including the toilet blocks, was modernized. On 13 September 2004, following completion of the works, a buildings certificate was issued, and the Secondary School of Medicine of the St Vincent Institute, part of the Catholic Schools for Europe system, moved in.
At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, following the demolition of the GP Vranica office building, work began in the inner courtyard on an office block with a four-level underground garage and five storeys over. As of 2011 the building was yet to be completed, and the courtyard contains large pit surrounded by a reinforced concrete ring, where a considerable quantity of rainwater has collected.
Further works were carried out on the interior of the Church of St Vincent de Paul in late 2010.
2. Description of the property
The architectural ensemble consists of the church on the west side of the complex, facing Tito Street, the convent, abutting onto the east side of the church, at the intersection of Tito and Šenoina Streets, and the school, on the south side of the complex, at the intersection of Šenoina and Branilaca grada Streets. The inner courtyard of the complex is bounded by the south end of the church and convent, the west side of the school and the north side of Branilaca grada Street.
The church covers an area of 206 sq.m., the convent 771 sq.m., the school 549 sq.m. and the courtyard 2157 sq.m. The church and convent are about 14 m in height from ground level to the ridge of the double-pitched roof, and the school is about 20 m in height to the roof ridge. The overall length of the frontage is 29.75 m along Tito Street, 87.70 m along Šenoina Street, and 23.45 m along Branilaca grada Street.
The entrances to the church and convent face onto Tito Street, while the entrance to the school and to the part of the convent building that is to become a health-care institution face onto Šenoina Street. The side entrances to the convent and school face onto the inner courtyard.
The principal material used to build the complex is good quality brick. In terms of style, all are in the historicist manner except for the school, which shows the influence of the Secession. All the buildings in the complex (the church, convent and school) are interconnected by corridors running lengthwise through the convent, parallel with Tito and Šenoina Streets(34).
Church
The church is a single-aisled brick building with a bell tower to the north and an apse to the south. It is rectangular in plan, measuring 7.90 x 21.60 m, with its long axis lying north-south. The height of the building is 10.60 m to the eaves, 14.00 m to the ridge of the double-pitched roof, and 23.40 m to the top of the polygonal roof of the bell tower. Inside, the church consists of a narthex, nave and sanctuary.
To the north are recessed stone steps 2.50 m in width leading to the double-valved entrance of 15.0 x 2.50 m with overlight. This opens into the narthex of 6.70 x 3.30 m, with a storm porch. The choir gallery of 6.70 x 3.90 m is over the narthex; a pair of wooden stairs leads from the gallery up to a raised area 2.00 m in width to the north, below the bell tower. A wooden 80 x 80 cm hatch in the ceiling provides access to the bell tower, which measures 2.60 x 2.60 m.
The nave(35) is the same width as the narthex, and 9.30 m in length. It is divided lengthwise by 65 cm wide buttresses into three equal-sized bays with barrel vaults. The stone altar of 1.60 x 1.00 m, on a plinth 1.00 m in height, stands between the semicircular apse of 4.60 x 4.40 m to the south and the nave to the north. A single-valved door on the east side of the apse leads into the sacristy of 2.50 x 4.10 m, from which a passageway 5.70 m long and 1.50 m wide to the north leads to the convent.
Convent
The convent is a corner building with its north wing, measuring 21.85 x 23.13 m, facing Tito Street, and its east wing, measuring 25.88 x 14.55 m, facing Šenoina Street. The north wing is used only as a convent, while the east wing is equipped to operate as a health care institution.
The main entrance to the convent is through a solid wood double-valved door of 1.45 x 2.00 m with overlight, facing Tito Street(36). There is no direct access to the east wing of the convent, which is entered through two entrances on the north side of the school, connecting Šenoina Street and the rear courtyard.
The main, north ground-floor entrance to the convent opens into a hallway 2.00 m wide, with at the south end a triple-flight staircase 1.60 m wide, leading to the upper floors and down to the basement. To the west is a corridor leading to the church, and to the north-east is an area of 7.10 x 12.90 m intended for the kitchen and refectory.
The first room in the east wing of the convent as seen from the south is an entrance hall of 7.50 x 13.60 m with a modern staircase and a lift. To the north are specialist clinics, a pharmacy and other premises.
The layout of the first floor and attic of the convent is similar both spatially and functionally to that of the ground floor, except that there are convent rooms above the kitchen and refectory.
School
Like the convent, the school is a corner building with its east wing, measuring 28.20 x 14.55 m, facing Šenoina Street, and its south wing, measuring 10.75 x 23.45 m, facing Branilaca grada Street.
The main entrance is through a double-valved wooden door of 1.60 x 2.10 m with overlight at the south end of Šenoina Street(37). This leads into an entrance hallway running east-west, 17.00 m long and 3.00 m wide, leading at the south end to a gym measuring 19.00 x 6.50 m, and at the north-west to a double-flight stairway 1.60 m wide. To the north, the entrance hallway joins the corridor of the east wing of the school, lying north-south and linking the school and the convent(38). This corridor opens into rooms of various sizes and purposes, including a toilet block.
The basic layout of the floor above the south and east wings of the school is similar to that of the ground floor, but the premises consist solely of classrooms.
The attic storey houses the school offices, and the basement contains a boiler-room.
The inner courtyard contains an open pit surrounded by reinforced concrete shuttering, where the underground garage of the planned office block will be located. The rest of the courtyard is used as a public car park.
Materials
All the bearing walls of the complex are of brick. The perimeter walls of the church are 60 cm thick, those of the convent are 55 cm thick, and those of the school are 75 cm thick(39), diminishing in the upper storeys. The interior walls range in thickness from 12 to 55 cm, and are of various materials. The outside and inside walls are plastered and painted. The stone foundations are dry-walled, to prevent rising damp. The interior stairways have been clad with tiles, as have most of the floors in the monastery and school. The church floor is stone-clad, and the choir gallery has a parquet floor(40), as do the nuns’ upstairs rooms in the convent. The interior and exterior woodwork has been replaced by PVC of various colours(41), except for the entrance doors to the church and convent facing Tito Street, which are wooden, and the stained-glass windows of the church, which are metal-framed. The roof trusses are wooden, and the roof is clad with tiles: the school and church with classic tiles, and the convent with beaver-tail tiles. The polygonal roof of the bell tower is clad with galvanized iron.
Inside, the Church of St Vincent de Paul is 10.50 m in height from the floor to the apex of the barrel vault. The convent ceilings are 2.20 m high in the basement, 3.90 m high on the ground floor, 3.50 m high on the first floor, and 2.80 m high in the attic storey.
Façades
The façades of the church and monastery are strictly in the historicist manner, most closely suggesting the neo-Romanesque. The façades of the school, which form the continuation of the convent façade along Šenoina Street, reveal the influence of the Secession. The school is a conventionally designed building with simplified Secessionist decorative elements(42).
The north façade of the complex facing Tito Street consists of the church to the west and the convent to the east. The east façade facing Šenoina Street consists of the convent to the north and the school to the south. The south façade facing Branilaca grada Street forms the south façade of the school.
The north façade of the church is a symmetrical composition with a central double-valved door of 1.50 x 2.50 m with overlight, set back into an arched niche of 2.50 x 5.95 m at the top of which is an oculus with a diameter of 1.70 m. Flanking this is a pair of arched lancet windows of 50 cm x 2.25 m, and above is a central arched window flanked by two oculi with a diameter of 1.00 m. Directly above is the arched window of the bell tower, measuring 1.25 x 1.90 m. The south façade, facing the inner courtyard, is apsidal, with axially-placed arched windows of 90 x 220 m. The side façades are concealed by the convent to the west and a building dating from the latter half of the 20th century to the west.
To the east is the north façade of the convent, consisting of a recessed east section with the entrance portal of 1.45 x 2.00 m, with two windows of 105 x 105 cm with overlights on either side, and a projecting west section with two windows of the same size. Directly over these at first-floor level are seven identical windows. Compositionally, the east façade of the convent is a continuation of the north front, with two ranks (ground and first floor) of fifteen windows identical to those of the north front.
The ground and upper floors of the east façade of the school each have thirteen two-light windows with overlights, measuring 140 x 2.65 cm and 140 x 2.45 cm. The monumental nature of the composition is accentuated by two shallow risalits to north and south(43), each with a single window on each storey and, at ground-floor level, Secessionist-decorated entrance portals of 3.50 x 2.50 m and 1.60 x 2.10 m with overlights; the first entrance is surmounted by a scuptural element – a mascaron(44). The basement, which has rectangular windows, has a string course level with the ground-floor window-sills, and the composition is completed by a pronounced roof cornice. Above the basement the façade is finished with shallow rustication to which the Secessionist decorations are applied. The zone above the second-floor window lintels is decorated with moulded Secessionist panels, also to be seen below the window sills of the first and second floors(45).
In terms of composition, the south façade of the school is a continuation of the east façade, except that the second-floor windows are surmounted by more emphatic Secessionist motifs, concentrated in strictly limited areas around the windows and below the roof cornice, in the form of bands with a motif of stylized chestnut leaves, interrupted by a disc between the windows(46). This façade has ranks of eight windows of the same shape and size as those on the east façade.
At second-floor level the south-east corner bears an arched niche 3.20 m in height once occupied the statue of St Vincent de Paul. Vancaš’s solution to the junction between façades that differ in composition and decoration is interesting. By chamfering the corner accented by the semicircular niche at second-floor level, he created the impression of a uniform composition(47).
The courtyard façades are the rear faces of the complex, with windows of various sizes belonging to the different rooms in the complex.
Movable property
Over the year the church was adorned with stained glass (St Vincent and the Orphans, 1948), wall paintings by Dragutin Inchiostri Medenjak (1902), hanging paintings (Jesus at Mary and Martha’s House, Two disciples on the road to Emmaus and Jesus on the Mount of Olives, The twelve-year-old Jesus preaching in the Temple, probably by Gabrijel Jurkić), fine altars (the altar of Our Lady and St Andrew) with wooden sculptures, and a bare wooden cross. Most of these have been moved to other buildings belonging to the Sisters of Charity or were lost during the 1992-1995 war.
The sculptures forming part of the altar are now in very poor condition, and are housed in a damp basement, which is accelerating their deterioration. Judging from what is known about the construction of the church, the altar with its painted wooden sculptures was probably made in the late 19th century in the neo-Renaissance style, most likely in the Ferdinand Stuflesser workshop in the Tyrol(48).
Ten wooden sculptures and one in plaster have survived:
1. Last Supper
Artist: Tyrolean workshop (comparative analysis suggests the Ferdinand Stuflesser workshop)
Date: last decade of the 19th century
Technique: combination of wood carving and oil on wood
Size: 130 x 67 cm
Description: The artist based his composition on Renaissance models. Jesus is in the centre, flanked by the apostles to his right and left. The only figure set apart is that of Judas, as is usual in the iconography of the Last Supper. Though the wood carving is of good quality, the scene lacks depths.
2. St Joseph with Jesus
Artist: Tyrolean workshop (comparative analysis suggests the Ferdinand Stuflesser workshop)
Date: last decade of the 19th century
Technique: combination of wood carving and oil on wood
Size: 125 cm
Description: St Joseph, wearing a green maphorion with golden-yellow floral decoration, is holding Jesus in his arms. The baby Jesus’s arms are missing, but were probably as if giving a blessing. Both Jesus and St Joseph have haloes.
3. Angel and child
Artist: Tyrolean workshop (comparative analysis suggests the Ferdinand Stuflesser workshop)
Date: last decade of the 19th century
Technique: combination of wood carving and oil on wood
Size: 125 cm
Description: The white-robed angel, head raised, has golden-yellow hair and pink cheeks. A child is standing beside him. The scene appears to represent the folk belief that children have guardian angels.
4. St Aloysius
Artist: Tyrolean workshop (comparative analysis suggests the Ferdinand Stuflesser workshop)
Date: last decade of the 19th century
Technique: combination of wood carving and oil on wood
Size: 125 cm
Description: St Aloysius is portrayed in priestly garb, mainly white with dark borders. He has one arm at his side, and is giving a blessing with the other.
5. The Blessed Virgin Mary
Artist: Tyrolean workshop (comparative analysis suggests the Ferdinand Stuflesser workshop)
Date: last decade of the 19th century
Technique: combination of wood carving and oil on wood
Size: 125 cm
Description: The Virgin is wearing a blue maphorion decorated with gold. Her hands, emerging from her mantle, are held in prayer, and her head is adorned with a green garland and a starred halo.
6. St Anthony and child
Artist: Tyrolean workshop (comparative analysis suggests the Ferdinand Stuflesser workshop)
Date: last decade of the 19th century
Technique: combination of wood carving and oil on wood
Size: 125 cm
Description: St Anthony is wearing a dark Franciscan habit, and holding in his arms a child in a white shift, his arms outstretched.
7. St Bernadette
Artist: unknown
Date: last decade of the 19th century
Technique: plaster sculpture
Size: 105 cm
Signature: bottom right corner of the icon – Franz Schmidt Wien
Description: St Bernadette is portrayed kneeling in prayer. The sculpture is unpainted, and quite badly damaged.
8. Angel
Artist: Tyrolean workshop (comparative analysis suggests the Ferdinand Stuflesser workshop)
Date: last decade of the 19th century
Technique: combination of wood carving and oil on wood
Size: 65 cm
Description: The angel, wearing a gold robe and with wings outstretched, is portrayed in prayer.
9. The risen Christ
Artist: Tyrolean workshop (comparative analysis suggests the Ferdinand Stuflesser workshop)
Date: last decade of the 19th century
Technique: combination of wood carving and oil on wood
Size: 65 cm
Description: Jesus’s naked body is wrapped in a red maphorion, his left arm concealed, his right raised in benediction.
10. Angel
Artist: Tyrolean workshop (comparative analysis suggests the Ferdinand Stuflesser workshop)
Date: last decade of the 19th century
Technique: combination of wood carving and oil on wood
Size: 65 cm
Description: The angel, wearing a gold robe and with wings outstretched, is portrayed with head raised in prayer.
11. St Agnes
Artist: Tyrolean workshop (comparative analysis suggests the Ferdinand Stuflesser workshop)
Date: last decade of the 19th century
Technique: combination of wood carving and oil on wood
Size: 65 cm
Description: Portrayed with a charming girlish face, the saint is holding a lamb on her right arm. She is wearing a pink maphorion, and has a floral garland in her hair.
3. Legal status to date
The architectural ensemble of the Church of St Vincent de Paul in Sarajevo is part of the Marshal Tito Street townscape in Sarajevo, itself forming part of the Townscape of Sarajevo, which is on the Provisional List under serial no. 546.
The Church of St Vincent de Paul in Tito Street is on the same Provisional List, serial no. 525.
The 2000 Development Programme for the Urban Centre of Sarajevo included the development of an urbanistic plan entitled Šenoina-passage. This did not provide for any alterations or interventions to the Church of St Vincent de Paul(49).
According to the details provided by the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport(50), the Church of St Vincent de Paul at 42 Tito Street, Sarajevo, is not on the register of cultural monuments.
4. Research and conservation-restoration works
The first restoration of the church took place in 1921, but there is no surviving documentation on the works carried out.
During the period 1962-65 the interior of the Church of St Vincent was restored under the leadership of Ljubo Novaković and the expert supervision of Sister Ivana Berhmana Šimeta, when the altar was turned to face the nave.
In October 1996 the roof timbers and interior of the church were repaired, and project documentation entitled Part reconstruction and repair of the Church of St Vincent at 42 Marshal Tito Street in Sarajevo was drawn up by the Svod Housing Association(51).
In 1997-98 a project was drawn up for the restoration of the convent, to provide accommodation for the St Vincent Health-Care Institute. The project was drawn up by Tadić Co. of Žepče.
In 2004 the restoration of the 1904 school building was completed. Since then it has housed the Catholic Secondary School of Medicine.
In late 2010 additional interior refurbishments were completed in the Church of St Vincent.
5. Current condition of the property
The architectural ensemble of the Church of St Vincent de Paul in Sarajevo is being extremely well maintained since the restoration and other works carried out from 1995 to 2004. However, undercutting the foundations of the church in the apse area is causing a problem, arising from the introduction of the underground reinforced concrete structure of the proposed garage beneath the office block in the inner courtyard. Building works have been halted, and the open pit contains a large quantity of rainwater, which is a potential source of infection close to the school, as well as a possible threat to the structural stability of the church, school and convent buildings(52). The works carried out between 1995 and 2005 were performed without the approval of the Federal Ministry of Regional Planning.
The building works also make it impossible for goods vehicles to enter the courtyard to deliver supplies to the complex.
6. Specific risks
- structural destabilization of the foundations(53)
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.ii. quality of materials
C.iii. proportions
C.iv. composition
C.v. value of details
C.vi. value of construction
D. Clarity (documentary, scientific and educational value)
D.iii. work of a major artist or builder
E. Symbolic value
E.ii. religious value
E.iv. relation to rituals or ceremonies
F. Townscape/ Landscape 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.v. location and setting
H. Rarity and representativity
H.iii. work of a prominent artist, architect or craftsman
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. 1793/1, 1793/2, 1793/3, 1793/4, 1793/5, 1799, 1800/1, 1800/2, 1800/3, 1800/4, 1802/1, 1802/2, 1802/3, c.m. Centar Sarajevo IV (new survey), plan no. Sarajevo – 148; scale 1:1000 (old survey c.p. nos. 190, 194 and 399, c.m.. Sarajevo XXXIX; c.p. nos. 398, 376, 229, 206, 350, 207, 101, 201, 208, 33, 192, c.m. Sarajevo XLVIII, issued on 2 February 2100 by the Department of Proprietary Rights, Geodetics and Cadastral Affairs, Centar Municipality, Sarajevo Canton, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Land Register entries with background history for plots no. 190 and 194, c.m. Sarajevo XXXIX, Land Register entries no. XXXIX/41 and XXXIX/151 (old survey), Nar. no. 065-0-RZ-11-511 (197-198; 199-200), of 9 February 2011, issued by the Land Registry Office of the Municipal Court in Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Land Register entry for plot no. 399, c.m. Sarajevo XXXIX, Land Register entry no. XXXIX/196 (old survey), Nar. no. 065-0-RZ-11-511 (065-0-Nar-01-0 7463) of 9 February 2011, issued by the Land Registry Office of the Municipal Court in Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Land Register entries for plots no. 398, 376, 229, 206, 350, 207, 101, 208, 33 and 192, c.m. Sarajevo XLVIII, Land Register entries no. XXXIX/41, XXXIX/151, XXXIX/196; XLVIII/114 (part), XLVIII/174, XLVIII/244, XLVIII/245 (old survey), Nar. no. 065-0-RZ-11-1043of 4 March 2011, 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 Development Planning Authority of Sarajevo Canton no. 02-23-689/11 dated 7 February 2011
- Letter from the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport no. 07-40-4-391-1/11 dated 7 February 2011
- Photodocumentation
- Historical photograph of the Church of St Vincent de Paul and the Convent (seen from Tito Street) dating from the Austro-Hungarian period
- Historical photograph of the Church of St Vincent de Paul and the Convent (seen from Tito Street) dating from the interwar period
- Historical photograph of the Church of St Vincent de Paul and the Convent (seen from Tito Street) dating from the 1960s
- Historical photograph of the School forming part of the complex dating from the Austro-Hungarian period
- Historical photograph of the Church of St Anthony in Bistrik, Sarajevo, take before 1917 (Decision designating the architectural ensemble of the Franciscan Monastery and Church of St Anthony in Sarajevo with movable property in Sarajevo as a national monument, adopted at a session of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments held in Sarajevo from 6 to 10 November 2006)
- Photographs of the complex taken by architect Adi Ćorović in January/February 2011 using Sony DSC – H10 digital camera
- Photographs of the complex taken by architect Aida Bucalović in April 2011 using Sony DSC – H10 digital camera.
- Technical documentation
- Urbanistic plans of central Sarajevo dating from 1882, 1886 and 1898 – historical documentation of the Cadastral Dept. of Centar Municipality Sarajevo, 24 January 2011
- Urbanistic plans of central Sarajevo dating from 1882 and 1883 – documentation of the Historical Archives of Sarajevo, 26 January 2011
- Surveyor Iohann. Kremser, Feldskizze 56, Feldskizze 25; Stadt Sarajevo, Masstab 1:390.625. Sarajevo: 1903, urbanistic plan
- Project for the restoration of the Monastery to provide accommodation for the St Vincent Health Care Institute, designed by Tadić projektiranje i inženjering, Žepče, 1997
- Drawing of the current condition of the property by architect Amra Sarić, Sarajevo, 2011
- Other documentation
- Copy of school report of Bogdanić (Emila) Štefica, born in Travnik on 16 January 1923, for school year 1932/33, fourth grade of St Vincent’s National Primary School Sarajevo: St Vincent’s National primary School, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Drina Banate, 1932/33
- Letter from the Society of the Sisters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul, Province of Our Lady, Sarajevo, no. 14/2011 dated 25 January 2011 – sister Ivka (s.m. Terezija) Karača, mother superior of the province, Sarajevo, 25 January 2011
- Letter from the Development Planning Authority of Sarajevo Canton no. 02-23-689/11 dated 7 February 2011
- Letter from the Principal of the KŠC Ivica Mrše MA and the Principal of the Secondary School of Medicine Mioljka Kuburović no. 48/2010 dated 26 February 2010 to the Development Planning Authority of Sarajevo Canton, headed Comments on the Draft Urban Plan “Pasaž Šenoina” phase I (Vranica), Sarajevo, 26 February 2010
- Documentation of the St Vincent Secondary School of Medicine, operating as part of the Catholic “School for Europe,” Sarajevo, February 2011.
Bibliography
During the procedure to designate the monument as a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina the following works were consulted:
1932. Zabeo, O. Kamilo D.I. Travnička spomenica – prigodom pedeset-godišnjice nadbiskupskog sjemeništa i nadbiskupske velike gimnazije u Travniku 1882.-1932 (Travnik Commemoration on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Archbishop's seminary and great grammar school in Travnik, 1882-1992). Sarajevo: Regina Apostolorum Academy Press
1973. Bejtić, Alija. Ulice i trgovi starog Sarajeva, Topografija geneza i toponimija (Streets and squares of old Sarajevo, topography, origins and toponymy). Sarajevo: 1973.
1987. Krzović, Ibrahim. Arhitektura Bosne i Hercegovine 1878-1918 (Architecture of BiH 1878-1918). Sarajevo: Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1987.
1988. Spasojević, Borislav. Arhitektura stambenih palata austrougarskog perioda u Sarajevu (Architecture of mansion blocks of the Austro-Hungarian period in Sarajevo). Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 1988.
1989. Dimitrijević, Branka. Arhitekt Karlo Pařik (Architect Karlo Pařik), doctoral dissertation. Zagreb: Faculty of Architecture of the University of Zagreb, 1989.
1989. Božić, Jela. Arhitekt Josip pl. Vancaš, Značaj i doprinos arhitekturi Sarajeva u periodu austrougarske uprave (Architect Josip Vancaš, significance and contribution to the architecture of Sarajevo in the period of Austro-Hungarian rule (doctoral dissertation). Sarajevo: University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Architecture in Sarajevo, 1989.
1992. Prstojević, Miroslav. Zaboravljeno Sarajevo (Forgotten Sarajevo). Sarajevo: PP Ideja, 1992.
1998. Vračić, Berislava, Kovačić, Alfonsa. Sestre milosrdnice II – poglavlje ”Družbine filijale u Bosni i Hercegovini” (Sisters of Charity II, chapter “Bosnia and Herzegovina branch”). Zagreb: publishing house of the Society of Sisters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul in Zagreb, 1988.
1999. Mutapčić, Snježana. "Sarajevske crkve kroz povijest umjetnosti," Hrvatska misao, časopis za umjetnost i znanost. (Sarajevo’s churches through the lens of art history, Hrvatska misao art and science periodical). Sarajevo: Matica hrvatska, 1999.
2005. Decision designating the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Sarajevo as a national monument, session of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments held in Sarajevo from 25 to 31 January 2005.
2006. Decision designating the architectural ensemble of the Franciscan Monastery and Church of St Anthony in Sarajevo with movable property in Sarajevo as a national monument, session of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments held in Sarajevo from 6 to 10 November 2006.
2007. Decision designating the historic building of the former Convent and School of the Sisters of Charity in Travnik as a national monument, session of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments held in Sarajevo from 20 to 26 November 2007.
2009. Decision designating the Music Academy (St Augustine Institute) in Sarajevo as a national monument, session of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments held in Sarajevo from 8 to 14 September 2009.
(1) See: Sisters Berislava Vračić, Alfonsa Kovačić, Sestre milosrdnice II – chapter “Družbine filijale u Bosni i Hercegovini” (Zagreb: Naklada Družbe sestara milosrdnica svetog Vinka Paulskog u Zagrebu, 1998), 429-430.
(2) So called because they worked mainly in medical institutions and hospitals.
(3) Op.cit., 429-430
(4) Ibid.
(5) Ibid, 431.
(6) Letter from the Society of the Sisters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul, Province of Our Lady, Sarajevo, no. 14/2011 dated 25 January 2011 – sister Ivka (s.m. Terezija) Karača, mother superior of the province, Sarajevo, 25 January 2011
(7) Snježana Mutapčić,. "Sarajevske crkve kroz povijest umjetnosti." Hrvatska misao, časopis za umjetnost i znanost. (1999) 140.
(8) It was not unusual for the Government to reject a design and instead propose one by its own architects, which would then be built under government auspices. Since in such cases the parish priest received all the necessary directives and permits from the Ordinariat, the surviving archive material reveals that Stadler would accept no compromise, but insisted that the churches be built to Vancaš's designs, even though the Government promised to cover the costs if their designs were used. Jela Božić, Arhitekt Josip pl. Vancaš, značaj i doprinos arhitekturi Sarajeva u periodu austrougarske uprave – doctoral dissertation (Sarajevo: Faculty of Architecture in Sarajevo, 1989), 37.
(9) Urbanistic plan of central Sarajevo dated 1886 – historical documentation of the Cadastral Department of Centar Municipality Sarajevo, 24 January 2011.
(10) The entire complex including the school building to the south features on the 1903 urbanistic plan of Sarajevo. Surveyor Iohann. Kremser. Feldskizze 56, Feldskizze 25; Stadt Sarajevo, Masstab 1:390.625. Sarajevo: 1903, urbanistic plan
(11) “In 1878 events took a turn for the better in the education system. That very year the Government opened a boys’ primary school in Travnik, followed two years later by the Sisters of Charity’s school. Another two years later (1882) a grammar school was opened, and two years later again (1884) the Sisters of Charity extended their school to include a senior girls’ school.” See O. Kamilo Zabeo D.I.. Travnička spomenica – prigodom pedeset-godišnjice nadbiskupskog sjemeništa i nadbiskupske velike gimnazije u Travniku 1882.-1932, Sarajevo: Naklada Akademije „Regina Apostolorum“, 1932, 61.; Decision designating the historic building of the former Convent and School of the Sisters of Charity in Travnik as a national monument, session of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments held in Sarajevo from 20 to 26 November 2007.
(12) Vračić, Kovačić, op.cit., Zagreb, 1998, 432
(13) Ibid, 433.
(14) Mutapčić, 140.
(15) Božić, 197; Miroslav Prstojević, Zaboravljeno Sarajevo (Sarajevo: PP “IDEJA”, 1992),159.
(16) A statue of St Vincent was erected at the intersection with present-day Branilaca grada Street, at second-floor level of the building. See Vračić, Kovačić, 434.
(17) The 1893 legislation included provisions for the use of building materials down to the minutest detail, and set out standards for the size of new buildings. All public buildings had to be built of good-quality brick or stone, and roofed with fire-resistant material; stairways were to be built of stone or other fire-resistant material. The regulations also prescribed the width of the streets and of the pavements outside the buildings. See Borislav Spasojević, Arhitektura stambenih palata austrougarskog perioda u Sarajevu (Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 1988), 13.
(18) Vračić, Kovačić, 435.
(19) Ibid, 437.
(20) Letter from the Society of the Sisters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul, Province of Our Lady, Sarajevo, no. 14/2011 dated 25 January 2011 – sister Ivka (s.m. Terezija) Karača, mother superior of the province, Sarajevo, 25 January 2011
(21) Vračić, Kovačić, 445.
(22) Ibid, 447.
(23) Ibid, 448-449.
(24) Ibid, 451.
(25) Ibid, 451-452.
(26) The archives were transferred to the 9th national primary school in Sarajevo, as were the archives of the Girls’ Grammar School to the National 1st Girls Grammar School in Sarajevo, which also took over the archives of the Civic School. The archives of the Girls’ Crafts School were transferred to the National Vocational School in Sarajevo. In 1947 the inventory of the physics lab and chemistry collection were handed over to the 2nd Girls’ Grammar School in Sarajevo. Ibid, 453.
(27) Ibid, 454.
(28) Mutapčić, 140.
(29) Ibid, 454.
(30) Mutapčić, 140.; Letter from the Society of the Sisters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul, Province of Our Lady, Sarajevo, no. 14/2011 dated 25 January 2011 – sister Ivka (s.m. Terezija) Karača, mother superior of the province, Sarajevo, 25 January 2011.
(31) Letter from the Society of the Sisters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul, Province of Our Lady, Sarajevo, no. 14/2011 dated 25 January 2011 – sister Ivka (s.m. Terezija) Karača, mother superior of the province, Sarajevo, 25 January 2011.
(32) Mutapčić, 140.
(33) Letter from the Society of the Sisters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul, Province of Our Lady, Sarajevo, no. 14/2011 dated 25 January 2011 – sister Ivka (s.m. Terezija) Karača, mother superior of the province, Sarajevo, 25 January 2011.
(34) The north wing of the school and the southern end of the convent form a single functional entity, having been designed to house the St Vincent health care institution.
(35) During the most recent renovations of the church, five stained-glass windows were installed in the nave and apse, a gift from donors from the USA. These are standard factory-made windows of dubious artistic value. The scenes are: east wall, Jesus – on thee I rely; apse, St Vincent de Paul and St Catherine of Laboure; west wall: St Louise de Marillac and St Joseph.
(36) Another double-valved door and two single-valved side doors also open onto the courtyard.
(37) At the north end of the school abutting onto the convent is a side entrance to the complex, measuring 3.50 x 2.50 m, fitted with a metal roller door. Directly opposite on the west side of the building is an entrance of 1.50 x 2.20 m facing the inner courtyard. This outer vestibule of 3.20 x 6.55 m leads into both the school and the convent. Until the late 20th century there was an open passageway here, leading from Šenoina Street to the inner courtyard.
(38) The ground floor of the east wing is part of the health care institution, and is functionally separate from the school.
(39) The interior bearing walls are of the same thickness.
(40) The choir gallery railing is also faced with wood.
(41) Some of the inside doors are wooden, such as the one between the church and the convent
(42) The compromise with historicism precluded a markedly Secessionist design. As a result, its value lies in the usually harmonious proportions of the building as a whole and in its details. Božić, 197-198.
(43) Ibid.
(44) Similar figures are to be seen over the entrance portals of three schools built during the same period in Gimnazijska Street in Sarajevo (1st Grammar School and Primary School by Dervenija Bridge, 1890/1, and the Art School, 1905). The entrance is now protected by a modern metal roller door.
(45) Ibid.
(46) Ibid.
(47) Ibid.
(48) Founded in 1875, it now operates out of St. Urlich, 1855-1926, and Ortisei, Tyrol.
(49) Letter from the Development Planning Authority of Sarajevo Canton no.02-23-689/11 dated 07.02.2011
(50) Letter from the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport no.07-40-4-391-1/11 of 07.02.2011.
(51) Ruling by Centar Municipality no. 07/A-364-700/96 of 27.08.1996.
(52) Letter from the Principal of the KŠC Ivica Mrše MA and the Principal of the Secondary School of Medicine Mioljka Kuburović no. 48/2010 dated 26 February 2010 to the Development Planning Authority of Sarajevo Canton, headed Comments on the Draft Urban Plan “Pasaž Šenoina” phase I (Vranica), Sarajevo, 26 February 2010.
(53) The destabilization of the foundations is the result of the illicit construction of the garage, which was built without a planning/building permit from the Federal Ministry of Regional Planning, as required since the zone forms part of the Sarajevo Townscape, which is on the Provisional List of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments under serial no. 546.
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