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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 26 to 28 March 2012 the Commission adopted a

 

D E C I S I O N

 

I

 

The historic building of Ibro Alagić's house in Cazin is hereby designated as a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: the National Monument).

The National Monument is located on a site designated as cadastral plot no. 521/7 “Žegar”, cadastral municipality SP_Cazin, Land Register entry no. 2048 (old survey), corresponding to c.p. 1161, c.m. Cazin-grad (new survey), Municipality Cazin, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The provisions relating to protection measures set forth by the Law on the Implementation of the Decisions of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, established pursuant to Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of the Federation of BiH nos. 2/02, 27/02, 6/04 and 51/07) shall apply to the National Monument

 

II

 

The Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: the Government of the Federation) shall be responsible for providing the legal, scientific, technical, administrative and financial measures necessary for the protection, conservation and presentation of the National Monument.

The Commission to Preserve National Monuments (hereinafter: the Commission) shall determine the technical requirements and secure the funds for preparing and setting up signboards with basic details of the monument and the Decision to proclaim the property a National Monument.

 

III

           

            To ensure the on-going protection of the National Monument on the site defined in Clause 1 para. 2 of this Decision, the following protection measures are hereby stipulated:

-          all works are prohibited other than investigative and conservation-restoration works, repair works, and works designed for the presentation of the monument, with the approval of the Federal ministry responsible for regional planning (hereinafter: the relevant ministry) and under the expert supervision of the heritage protection authority of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: the heritage protection authority);

-          during conservation-restoration works, the same materials, treatment of the materials and binders, and building techniques shall be used wherever possible;

-          the interior may be restored and adapted to enable the building to be used for educational and cultural purposes in a manner that will ensure its sustainable use and will not compromise its integrity and its meaning in the townscape, with the approval of the relevant ministry and under the expert supervision of the heritage protection authority.

 

The following emergency protection measures are hereby stipulated to protect the property and ensure that the conditions are in place for its conservation and restoration:

-          the building shall be protected from adverse outside influences.

 

On the plots adjoining the National Monument (c.p. nos. 1241, 1242, 1243, 1162 and 1163, c.m. Cazin-Grad,) the construction of buildings with a maximum height of two storeys (ground + 1) and of 6.50 m to the base of the roof and a maximum footprint of 10 x 10 m, with a steep hipped roof clad with wooden shingles or plain beaver-tail tiles, shall be permitted.

 

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 relevant ministry, 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 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.aneks8komisija.com.ba) 

 

VIII

 

Pursuant to Art. V para 4 Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, decisions of the Commission are final.

 

IX

 

This Decision shall enter into force on the 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.06.1-2.3-73/12-6

27 March 2012

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 30 June 2006 the Department of Social Affairs and the Environment of Cazin Municipality submitted a petition/proposal to the Commission to Preserve National Monuments to designate the architectural ensemble of Donji Grad Cazin in Cazin (Ibro Alagić’s house, the Grammar School, the Municipal Council building, the old Post Office and the old Finance Department building) as a national monument. On 27 May 2010 the Bihać Institute for the Protection of the Cultural Heritage submitted a petition to the Commission to Preserve National Monuments to designate Ibro Alagić's house in Cazin, Cazin Municipality, as a national monument of BiH.

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 of Annex 8 and Article 35 of the Rules of Procedure of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments.

 

Statement of Significance

The Alagić family house belongs to the type of house with a first-floor jutty. Probably built in the first half of the 19th century, it is a rare and fairly well preserved example of a two-storey house with jutty, functionally linked to an annex with “vodnica,” that is an abdestluk (premises for ritual ablutions) and a privy. The Alagić house is a significant point of reference in the structure and townscape of the township below Cazin Fort, and was under statutory protection as a cultural monument.

 

II – PRELIMINARY PROCEDURE

During the procedure preceding the adoption of a final decision to proclaim the property a national monument, the following documentation was inspected:

-          details of 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.

-          an inspection of the current condition of the property

-          a copy of the cadastral plan

-          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:

-          on 30 June 2006 the Department of Social Affairs and the Environment of Cazin Municipality submitted a petition/proposal to the Commission to Preserve National Monuments to designate the architectural ensemble of Donji Grad Cazin in Cazin (bro Alagić’s house, the Grammar School, the Municipal Council building, the old Post Office and the old Finance Department building) as a national monument

-          the petition and accompanying document ref. 211/10 of 26 May 2010 from the  Bihać Institute for the Protection of the Cultural Heritage to the Commission was accompanied by a CD with the following documentation in digital form:

-         photographic documentation of the property in its current state

-         architectural drawings of the property in its current state (ground plans of the ground floor and first floor, layout of the roof, cross section, front elevation, left elevation, right elevation)

-         transcript of the title deed

-         geodetic site plan

-          letter ref. 06.1-35.2-10/10-164 dated 3 September 2010 requesting documentation and views on the designation of Ibro Alagić’s house in Cazin was sent to the owner of the property, Cazin Municipality (Mayor, department responsible for urbanism and cadastre), the Land Registry office of the Municipal Court, the Bihać Institute for the Protection of the Cultural Heritage, the Institute for the Protection of Monuments under the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport, and the Federal Ministry of Regional Planning

-          Cazin Municipality supplied the Commission with the following documentation under cover of letter ref. 03-40-11534/10 of 5 October 2010:

-         transcript of title deed 82/04 for plot nos. 1161 and 1162, c.m. Cazin Grad, issued on 21 September 2010 under ref. 05-30-12386 by the Department of Proprietary Rights, Geodetics and Cadastral Affairs, Cazin Municipality, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

-         copy of cadastral plan for c.p. no. 1161, c.m. Cazin-Grad (new survey), plan no. 8, scale 1:1000, with identification of cadastral plot no. 521/7 (old survey), issued on 27 September 2010 by the Department of Proprietary Rights, Geodetics and Cadastral Affairs, Cazin Municipality, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

-         Land Register entry for plots no. 521/3 and 521/7, c.m. SP_Cazin, Land Register entry no. 2048 (old survey), Nar and Rz no. 2746/2010, property of Zulejha Alagić, née Kličić, of Cazin, issued on 23 September 2010 by the Land Registry office of the Municipal Court in Cazin, Cazin Municipality, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

-          under cover of letter ref.. 07-40-4-3519-1/10 of 14 September 2010 the Institute for the Protection of Monuments under the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport supplied the Commission with the information that Ibro Alagić’s house in Cazin was listed under the heading “old Bosnian house of Ibro Alagić in Cazin,” and that it was not protected by the Institute for the Protection of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of BiH

-          on 6 September 2010, during the course of an on-site inspection of the property, architect Softić Emir, an employee of the Commission, obtained from the owner of the property, Zulejja Alagić, a photocopy of a Ruling by the Institute for the Protection of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of BiH, Sarajevo, ref. UP-I-02-64-1/75, of 16 June 1975, stating that the Alagić house in Cazin (registered to c.p. no. 521/7, Land Register entry 1322, c.m. Cazin) was a cultural monument and placing it under statutory protection

-          since part of the archives of the Institute for the Protection of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of BiH was destroyed during the 1992-1995 war, on 16 September 2010 the Commission forwarded the copy of the Ruling by the Institute for the Protection of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of BiH, Sarajevo, ref. UP-I-02-64-1/75, of 16 June 1975, to the Institute for the Protection of Monuments under the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport.

 

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 historic building of Ibro Alagić’s house in Cazin is about 100 m as the crow flies west of Cazin Fort, in the central urban zone, about 50 m north-west of the Council building, on a site designated as cadastral plot no. 521/7 “Žegar”, cadastral municipality SP - Cazin, Land Register entry no. 2048 (old survey), corresponding to c.p. 1161, c.m. Cazin-grad (new survey), Municipality Cazin, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Historical background (1)

The area of Cazin Municipality has been inhabited since ancient times. Evidence of prehistoric habitation on the site of the old fort, which dominates the town, was discovered during archaeological excavations on the plateau between the inner and outer ramparts on the north-west side of the fort. Quantities of pottery sherds were found in mixed strata, despite which it was possible to identify pottery from four different periods: the Eneolithic, the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age, the La Tène period, and the late mediaeval and Ottoman period(2). 

There are frequent references to Cazin in historical sources from 1522, when the Ottomans conquered Knin and Cazin became the seat of the bishops of Knin.  Cazin was held for a time by Petar Keglević, who in 1535 surrendered it on the king's orders to the new bishop of Knin, Canon Petar of Ripač. It was while the latter was holding court there, in 1539, that the Ottomans took the town.

A frontier garrison was based in Cazin from 1553. In July 1576 the Ottomans, led by Ferhad pasha Sokolović, finally took Cazin and Bužim. By 1577 an Ottoman garrison of 50 cavalrymen and 150 infantrymen was already based in Cazin(3). The following year Ferhad pasha surrendered Cazin without resistance to General Ivan Ferenberg, only to retake it, this time for good, later that same year(4).

One source records that in 1584 the Ottomans embarked on a further reinforcement of the fort in Cazin, which was one of the most strongly fortified towns on the border between the two empires. One of the first commanders of Cazin was Edhem aga, who is recorded in a document of 1583. In about 1570 the Kamengrad kadiluk [area under the jurisdiction of a qadi – Islamic judge and administrative officer] was established within the Bosnian sanjak, covering the nahijas [minor administrative districts] in the Sana river valley. The Ottoman authorities merged the conquered territories, towns and forts in the Una valley and beyond the river Una with this kadiluk until Bihać was taken in 1592, so that the town of Cazin also belonged to it(5). 

According to a treaty of 1625 on the borders between the Ottoman holdings in the Krajina and neighbouring Croatia, there were military garrisons in all the forts held by the Ottomans in the Krajina, including Cazin(6).

In the 18th century, Cazin formed part of the Ostrožač captaincy, and did not have a dizdar [fortress commander] of its own. The Ostrožač captaincy covered part of the Kamengrad kadiluk, in the far north-western corner of the Bosnian eyalet. Šaban-aga and Osman-aga are recorded in 1769 among the garrison commanders. A revolt against captain Ibšir-bey Beširević began in the mid 18th century. Throughout this century the Bihać kadiluk was limited to the area around the town of Bihać, with all the other towns across the Una, north of the left bank, belonging to the Kamengrad kadiluk(7). In the early 19th century, Cazin belonged to the Ostrožač captaincy. When the fort was abandoned in 1851, an uprising against Omer pasha Latas broke out in Cazin. In the 19th century the town of Cazin belonged, within the Bosnian pashaluk, to the Bihać kajmakamluk (district) and to the mudirluk (county) of Cazin or Ostrožac(8). 

The exact date when the Alagić house was built is not known, but the style of the masonry, the type and quality of the binders and other building materials, and the treatment of certain structural elements suggest that it dates from the first half of the 19th century.

 

2. Description of the property

The Alagić family house belongs to the type of house with a first-floor jutty, in the typology defined by Muhamed Kadić(9).

This type of house is widespread in the area from Cazin, Bosanski Petrovac, Kulen-Vakuf, Bihać, Ključ, Banja Luka, Tešanj, Livno to Travnik and as far as Sarajevo, albeit varying from place to place. In the Bosnian Krajina it is typically a fortified house(10), whereas in Sarajevo and elsewhere in central and eastern Bosnia it is built with more regard for comfort and less for defence. This type of house represents a high degree of development in the layout and spatial conception of the house, and its appearance depends on high socio-economic standards and an advanced way of life.

The Alagić house, built on a slight slope, has a ground and a first floor and an annex to the west known as a “vodnica,” consisting of an abdesthana (premises for ritual ablution) with a privy.

Like other houses of this type, the first floor is of lightweight materials (timber framing with an infill of unfired brick) and the basement and ground floor, which are in direct contact with the ground, are of rubble stone with lime mortar as binder. The high first-floor jutty, which projects outwards by about 30-50 cm, is used as living quarters(11). Almost invariably(12), this jutty extends around all four sides, but in the case of the Alagić house, there is no jutty on the north side, and the jutty on the other three sides projects outwards by 25 to 40 cm.

The ground floor is rectangular in plan, measuring 9.40 x 8.40 m. To the west, over the width of the flight of steps, the wall projects outwards by approx. 25 cm, i.e. the thickness of the wall.

The outer (east, south and west) walls, which are about 80 cm thick, are of rubble stone; the north wall is about 30 cm thick. Lime mortar was used as binder. To the east, three stone steps (3 x 25/20) lead to the double-valved wooden front door of 110 x 175 cm.

A partition wall 20 cm thick running east-west separates the rather large entrance hallway of 3.80 x 4.20 m on the south side of the building from two smaller rooms of 2.40 x 4.00 and 2.60 x 2.35 m respectively, with two connecting doors in the partition wall between them and the entrance hallway.

A pier of 75 x 100 cm was erected in the middle of the ground floor, and a chimney on the west side of the pier, in the heart of the house. A rough-hewn wooden 30 x 30 cm beam rests across the east side of the masonry pier, lying north-south, carrying the hewn wooden 15 x 20 cm ceiling joists lying east-west. Parallel with the beam, on the east and west outside walls, are other wooden beams of the same section which also carry the ceiling joists between the ground and first floors, with floor boards lying north-south are laid over the ceiling joists, which are left exposed on the underside. The ground-floor ceiling is about 2.85 m high.

Light enters the ground floor through two wooden two-light windows of 80 x 120 cm in the east wall, one on each side of the front door. The windows are fitted with iron grilles set into the window casings; the window lights themselves are fixed to the outside of the window jambs, and open outwards.

These rooms have wooden floors consisting of boards abutted against each other. The walls are plastered and lime-washed.

The first floor, which measures 9.65 x8.80 m, is entirely of bondruk construction, consisting of a timber frame composed of posts, crossbeams and struts with an unfired-brick infill.  These walls, which are about 20 cm thick, are plastered inside and out. In layout, the first floor consists of 2 ½ north-south tracts, with rooms occupying the outer, west and east, tracts and the central semi-tract consisting of a corridor.

A door in the north-west angle of the building opens onto a steep single flight of stairs (10 x 20/31 cm, width 100 cm) leading to the north-south corridor of 1.00 x 9.25 m in the “semi-tract.”  Light enters the corridor through two windows of 80 x 120 cm at each end, one in the middle of the north wall, the other opposite it in the south wall.

The corridor gives on to two rooms in the west tract, measuring respectively 3.05 x 3.70 m and 3.40 x 3.70 m, lit by windows of 80 x 120 cm. A narrow corridor of 0.75 x 4.00 m between these two rooms provides access to the “vodnica,” which measures 2 x 5 m on the outside and consists of an abdesthana and privy, built onto the west side of the house. The vodnica is divided by a wooden partition wall into two, one part where water vessels are stored and the other a privy. The vodnica rests on a stone structure measuring 2 x 5 m on the outside, projecting out from the west wall by about 2 m, which contains a septic tank. The outer walls of the vodnica are also of bondruk construction, consisting of a timber frame composed of posts, crossbeams and struts with a fired-brick infill, and are not plastered on the outside; the roof is a simple three-pitch wooden structure.

East of the corridor are three rooms measuring respectively 2.80 x 3.30 m, 2.65 x 3.30 m, and 3.55 x 3.30 m, each lit by two windows of 80 x 120 cm in the east wall; in addition, the two corner rooms each have another window of the same size in the south and north walls respectively.

All the first-floor rooms also have wooden floors, and ceilings 2.50 m high; the vodnica ceiling is 1.90 m high.

The building has a wooden hipped roof with a pitch of about 40 degrees, consisting of a simple frame of rafters and cross stays. The roof is clad with wooden shingles, and has “blind vents,” (13) suggesting that there was once a “house” on the first floor, open to the rafters, that was lost in the course of alterations.

 

3. Legal status to date

By Ruling of the Institute for the Protection of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of BiH, Sarajevo, ref. UP-I-02-64-1/75, of 16 June 1975, the Alagić house in Cazin (registered to c.p. no. 521/7, Land Register entry 1322, c.m. Cazin) was designated as a cultural monument and placed under statutory protection.

The explanatory notes of the Ruling state that “since the building is a typical example of a house dating from the period of Turkish occupation and one of the few relatively well preserved buildings of that time in Cazin, it is a cultural monument. The ground floor is of stone, the first-floor jutty of posts, and the roof is clad with wooden shingles.”

 

4. Research and conservation-restoration works and other interventions

Nothing is known of any investigative or conservation-restoration works or other interventions to the property.

In September 2010 the Bihać Institute for the Protection of the Cultural Heritage surveyed the building and produced drawings of its present state.

Visual observations of the building and a study of its layout, however, suggests that some alterations may have been carried out:

-          to the west of the ground floor, over the width of the flight of steps, the wall projects outwards by approx. 25 cm, i.e. the thickness of the wall;

-          it is usual for such houses to have a jutty on all four sides, but in the case of the Alagić house, there is no jutty on the north side; the jutties on the other three sides project by 25 to 40 cm;

-          the main (east) front of the building, facing the čaršija, is the finest, and would have been perfectly symmetrical if there were a first-floor jutty on the north side;

-          on the ground floor, the north-east corner of the building contains a long, narrow room of 100 x 350 cm which is used as a storeroom, and is entered from the outside, through a door of 80 x 130 cm;

-          all the exterior ground-floor walls are 80 cm thick except the north wall, which is 30 cm thick, suggesting that alterations were later carried out on the north side of the building. For example, when one considers the layout and ground plan of the building, it is entirely possible that it had a staircase with a covered veranda on the north side;

-          the ends of the ceiling beams cannot be seen on the north façade of the building, but are clearly visible on the south side;

-          the presence of two diagonal steel pipes about 120 to 130 cm apart and level with the ground floor ceiling midway along the south wall suggests that the south-facing upstairs rooms had washrooms in the corner, and that the steel pipes were used to drain the water from the stone washroom troughs. There is an example of such a stone trough in the upstairs room in the west tract, south of the staircase;

-          it was also noted that part of the west outside wall has been rebuilt using inappropriate fired brick, and that the stone substructure of the vodnica has been reinforced by coke-cement concrete blocks. An obtrusive sheet metal canopy has also been added over the entrance to the staircase. These are all reversible.

 

5. Current condition of the property

Generally speaking, the property is in a state of neglect. Visual observation suggests that the structure is relatively sound, particularly as regards the masonry, the rigidity of the half-timbered walls, and the dry, sound timbers.

There is damage to the plaster on the half-timbered first floor and considerable damage to the wooden shingle roof cladding, which needs relaying and much of which should be replaced. There is extensive evidence in the upstairs rooms that the roof leaks, damaging the ceilings. The same is true of the vodnica roof.

 

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.iv.      composition

C.v.       value of details

C.vi.      value of construction

D.         Clarity

D.iv.      evidence of a particular type, style or regional manner

E.         Symbolic value

E.i.       ontological value

E.iii.      traditional value

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

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.iii.     use and function

G.iv.      traditions and techniques

G.v.      location and setting

G.vi.      spirit and feeling

G.vii.     other internal and external factors

H.         Rarity and representativity

H.i.       unique or rare example of a certain type or style

 

The following documents form an integral part of this Decision:

-          Ownership documentation

-         transcript of title deed 82/04 for plot nos. 1161 and 1162, c.m. Cazin Grad, issued on 21 September 2010 under ref. 05-30-12386 by the Department of Proprietary Rights, Geodetics and Cadastral Affairs, Cazin Municipality, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

-         copy of cadastral plan for c.p. no. 1161, c.m. Cazin-Grad (new survey), plan no. 8, scale 1:1000, with identification of cadastral plot no. 521/7 (old survey), issued on 27 September 2010 by the Department of Proprietary Rights, Geodetics and Cadastral Affairs, Cazin Municipality, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

-         Land Register entry for plots no. 521/3 and 521/7, c.m. SP_Cazin, Land Register entry no. 2048 (old survey), Nar and Rz no. 2746/2010, property of Zulejha Alagić, née Kličić, of Cazin, issued on 23 September 2010 by the Land Registry office of the Municipal Court in Cazin, Cazin Municipality, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

-          Documentation on previous protection of the property

-         Ruling by the Institute for the Protection of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of BiH, Sarajevo, ref. UP-I-02-64-1/75, of 16 June 1975, stating that the Alagić house in Cazin (registered to c.p. no. 521/7, Land Register entry 1322, c.m. Cazin) was a cultural monument and placing it under statutory protection

-          Photodocumentation

-         photographs of the Alagić house in Cazin taken on 6 September 2010 by architect Emir Softić using Canon PowerShot S5IS digital camera

-         photographs of the Alagić house in Cazin taken on 15 September 2009 using Sony DSC-W70 digital camera, supplied by the Bihać Institute for the Protection of the Cultural Heritage.

-          Technical documentation

-         architectural drawings of the property in its current state supplied by the Bihać Institute for the Protection of the Cultural Heritage on CD in digital form:

-          ground plan, ground floor

-          ground plan, first floor

-          layout of the roof

-          cross section

-          front elevation (east)

-          left elevation (south)

-          right elevation (north)

 

Bibliography

During the procedure to designate the Alagić house in Cazin as a national monument, the following works were consulted:

 

1943.    Lopašić, Radoslav. Bihać i bihaćka krajina (Bihać and the Bihać Krajina), 2nd ed. Zagreb: 1943.

 

1953.    Kreševljaković, Hamdija. “Stari bosanski gradovi,” (Old Bosnian towns), Naše starine I. Sarajevo: 1953.

                       

1967.    Kadić, Muhamed. Starinska seoska kuća u BiH (The old rural house in BiH). Sarajevo: Cultural Heritage series, Veselin Masleša, 1967.

 

1982.    Šabanović, Hazim. Bosanski pašaluk (The Bosnian pashaluk). Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 1982.

 

2004.    Bajrić, Azra. Cazin. Cazin: Cazin Municipality and Cultural Centre, 2004.


(1) For more on the history of the town, see decisions designating national monuments in Cazin municipality.

(2) Report by Branka Raunig. 2001, 117,163

(3) Lopašić, Radoslav, Bihać i bihaćka krajina, II. izdanje, Zagreb: 1943, 132

(4) Lopašić, op.cit., 120-123; Kreševljaković, Hamdija, “Stari bosanski gradovi, Naše starine 1953, 32

(5) Šabanović, Hazim, Bosanski pašaluk, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 1982, 175,181

(6) Lopašić, Radoslav, Bihać i bihaćka krajina, II. izdanje, Zagreb: 1943, 31

(7) Šabanović, op.cit, 228, 230

(8) Šabanović, op.cit, 1982, 233

(9) Kadić, Muhamed, Starinska seoska kuća u BiH, Sarajevo: biblioteka "Kulturno naslijeđe", Veselin Masleša, 1967.

(10) Since this house was originally a “warrior's house” of a defensive nature, the storeroom wall was reinforced with stone and the windows are often very narrow, with a splay on the inside.

(11) Kadić, 58

(12) In the case of Nurija Pozderac’s house in Cazin, too, the jutties are symmetrical (op. E. Softić).

(13) “So-called ‘blind vents’ are made on the pane or ridge of a roof and are designed solely to allow smoke to escape in roofs clad with wooden shingles or hollow tiles.”(Kadić, 106)



Cazin, in 1905CazinIbro Alagić's houseNortwest view
Water-closet Entrance doorGround floor- detail of the ceiling Staircase
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