Prioritized Intervention List:
Ÿ Country:
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ÿ Name of organization compiling the information:
Commission to Preserve National Monuments
Ÿ Contact name:
Mirela Mulaluć Handan
Ÿ email address:
mirela@aneks8ko.com.ba
 The monument, sites or ensemble
Ÿ Name and address of building(s) or site:
Historical building City hall in Brčko
Ÿ Inventory reference number(s):
Provisional List of National Monuments No.:129
Ÿ Building type(s):
Administrative - City hall
Ÿ Main date(s):
Date of construction: 1892.
Ÿ Current use(s):
Educational and cultural – gallery and bibliotheca
Significance:
The Town Hall in Brčko was built in 1892 to a design by Ćiril Metod Iveković. It is one of the finest buildings in the pseudo-Moorish manner in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The street front is of particular value, with its markedly horizontal expression, enhanced by the equally spaced rows of windows, string courses marking the storeis, and alternating horizontal bands of stone and brick. The horizontal expression is not disrupted either by the symmetry of the entrance frontispiece or the vertical projections – a wider central vertical and two smaller lateral verticals. The entire composition is subordinate to the need to establish perfect symmetry. On the upper levels of the verticals, there are biforas with striking rosettes above. The arched domes above the lateral verticals, the horseshoe arches above the windows, the endless relief ornamental design below the roof cornice, etc., are the distinctive features of the total expression of buildings in the pseudo-Moorish expression in the historicist period in BiH.
Categories of Significance:
Of outstanding national importance
Categories of ownership or interest:
Of national interest
Documentation and bibliographic references:
Commission to Preserve National Monuments
Condition:
1. Very bad
Amount of war or associated damage:
3. Suffered more then 30% of roof damage, with significant damage of walls, but can be repaired
Risk:
•The Town Hall in Brčko is at risk of rapid deterioration as a result of lack of maintenance and failure to take minimal protection measures.
Condition risk:
B. Immediate risk of further rapid deterioration or loss of fabric, solution agreed but not begun
Technical assessment and costing:
Project of urgent protection measures from further deterioration needs to be done, as well as projects for next fazes of protection – project of sanation, conservation and restauration.
On the National monument following measures and works shall be applied:
Ÿ shall be structurally repaired and restored to its original appearance with all the structural elements of the building as they were: roof, foundations, walls, ceilings, and all interior and exterior elements;
Ÿ the structural repairs and restoration shall be carried out by consolidation of existing material or its replacement by material of the same type, same dimensions and form with the use of the same building techniques wherever possible, on the basis of documentation on its original form ;
Ÿ prior to the start of structural restoration works the structural stability of the building shall be studied;
Ÿ carry out structural consolidation of all walls and structural elements;
Ÿ carry out consolidation of existing stones by injection or replacement by identical stones;
Ÿ carry out structural repairs to all floor and roof structures, replacing age-dilapidated material with the same material of the same dimensions, worked in the same way and using the same techniques;
Ÿ restore authentic arrangement;
Ÿ plaster all interior walls with lime plaster made by old methods and whitewash all walls;
Ÿ repair all woodwork, replace rotten parts and treat with natural protective substances;
Costing proposals for projects and consolidation and restauration works have not been done.
Ownership:
Municipality
Occupation:
Fully occupied in regular use
Management:
The provisions relating to protection and rehabilitation 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 Brčko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina, no. 2/02) shall apply to the National Monument.
The Government of Brčko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: the Government of Brčko District) shall be responsible for ensuring and providing the legal, scientific, technical, administrative and financial measures necessary to protect, conserve, display and rehabilitate the National Monument.
The Government of Brčko District shall be responsible for providing the resources for drawing up and implementing the necessary technical documentation for the rehabilitation of the National Monument.
Summary:
The Town Hall is an outstanding example of the interpolation of a substantial building of Austro-Hungarian architecture not resulting in disharmony or disproportion but rather respecting the nature of the existing fabric.
The Regional Plan for BiH to 2000 classified the City hall in Brčko as category II – object of regional importance.
The priority level of intervention is HIGH.
NOTE:
Condition
1. Very bad
Condition risk
B. Immediate risk of further rapid deterioration or loss of fabric, solution agreed but not begun
Criteria employed for the Priority Intervention List:
Ÿ The monuments are designated as national monuments,
Ÿ They represents rear or unique example of the typology or chronological - stylistic corpus,
Ÿ They are damaged/destroyed during the 1992-1995 war in BiH or they are endangered by the post war conditions (illegal constructions, lack of funding for restoration and maintenance, inexpert reconstruction,…) and are imposed to further deterioration,
Ÿ Their restoration will encourage return process in BiH,
Ÿ Their restoration will support development of the region.
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