Moeni minis tar nije bio zadovoljan Partikovim rje~enjirna, pOlje od njega

The new City Hall was supposed to be the crowning jewel of these ef-

zahtijevao izrnjene. No, znarneniti arhitekt, biia~e lovjek jasnog moralnog

fOftS. Benjamin Kallay had entrusted

profil .i lvrstog Ijudskog integritet ., P'" ne htjede rnijenj .ti pro;ekat. Tada

eminent architects

je Kalaj projektov .nje Vijeeniee predao u ruke mil;enika tada~n;eg Belkog

Pofik, Pafik hod conceived a buildln<Jwith a triangular foundation

dru~tva. Aleksandra

the shope of the building lot required such Corner towers would have arched

\Vitullo

(Witekje. uz ostalo, bio i svjetski po:nat ~ahist).

Ve~ u Partikovorn projektu prepoznatljiv

prim;enjivan

u ozra~ju romantil.arskih

je takozvani neomaurski

sti!,

jektlljuei 1889. godinI,' zgradu Serijatsko-sudacke

Neodrtiv .je, u n.s lesto ponavljana tvrdn;a

Monorchy, a Korel
seeing as

dome ends. He also plOjected the jail, a building that, in time, would adopt

nastojanja vee ad poeetka 19. stoljeia.

K.rl Panik je svoje pozn .vanje svih odlika ovog sril .demonsrrirao

the City Hall Pro~ct to aneof the more

toarriv from the Austria-Hungary

pro-

~kole n .(urlic.a brijegu.

tom stilskom praveu kao

the Turkish nome for town house i.e. beledlJa, The beledijo joilwas destgned
in early renaissance style and in excellent proportIOnS.
The powerful Minister \o\'OSnot satisfied WIth Pafik's ideas ond demanded
that he moke changes. However, the renowned architect ',',losa man of clear

novumu re .liziranom u Bosni i Hereegovini. Stotine objekat .razlicite na-

moral fibre, possessin<J sound integfltyand

mjene <bogomolje, teatri, [,",orniee, hoteli, pOlCak i zgrade zool~kih

wos then that Kallay would hand over the design of the City Hall to the dar-

vrtova)

would not amend the design. It

podignu[i su ~irom svijeta po ugledu n .xdanja maurske Sp.ni;e iIi repruen-

ling of contemporaryViennese

t.tivne gradevine islamskog [stoka. Witek je, u to nema sumnje, r.zvijajuci

other things, also a world renowned chess player).

Even in Palik's design one could recognise the socolled

osnovne Partikove postavke, kao uzor o(bbrao .rhitek-

society, Alexander'J'Jittek (lNittek was, among

tuTU Andaluzije, te kairske Ijepo[iee: sult .n Has.anovu

Neo-Moclrlsh style enveloped in a romonticlSed settlng,

diamiju, mau::olej i dfamiju sult.ana Kait-Bey .i dtamiju

a style that hod been present since the start of the 19th

AlAzhar.
Na projektu je radio 1892. i 1893. godinI,'. Medutim,

century.
Karel Paiik hod demonstrated

his knowledge of 011feo-

nije mu bilo sudeno d.dovdi pos.ao, Ova; d .roviti i hipe:r-

tures of the style In his design of the 1889 5hali 'oh-lOw

senzibilni tovjek, nervno;e

School buddrng on the Curcic:Hill.A frequently reitefated

nasuvio

obolio, p,aje r.ld na projektu

treci arhitekt, Ciril Metod Ivekavil. Sa najboljim

preporukama
Hazenauera

claim of such stylistic direction as nO'lumu in Bosnia and

svojih beekih profesora, posebice Karla

(Karl von Hasenauer)

Herzegovina is unsustainable,

i gradevinskog direktora

Hundreds of structures of

varying purpose (plocesof worship, theatres,

factories

Edmundo Stiksa (Edmund SrilC),Ivekovil' je dobio pos .o i

even 2oological builcfrngs}were erected all around the

vee 1893. godinI,' upoeeo

world as modelled on the slructuresof

rad na dovdenju

Witekovog

izvedbenog projekta i nadzoru gradnje. Krajem 1894.

Moorish Spain or

thot of landmark structures of the .Islamic East. No doubt,

in developing Palik's elements, \!tlek modelled them on

godinI,', bili su zavr~eni gradevinski radovi i osposebljen
eml Metod l~'ekalli,
dio prostora. U p.l.tu su privremeno uselili: Gr.dsko potheorchitectuleof
Andalusia and the beauties of COiro:
glavarstvo i Okruzni sud, koji je ostao bez svoje zgr.lde u Uliei Konak, n",kon
the Sulton Hasan Mosque. the Sultan Koit-Be,! Mausoleum ond Mosqueond
poz",ra od 4. oktobra 1894. godinI,',
the AIAlhar Mosque. He worked on the Project throughout 1892 and 1893Ciril Metod [vekovil' potvrdio se kao pedantan i sistematican arhitekt,
However, it was not hiS fate to finish the endeavour. This gifted, receptive
odiican poznavalac graditeljskih stilova, u prvom redu neomaurskog
optenito islamskog graditeljskog
tor i konzervator.

ll.lsljeda, ali i kao prvor.lzredan

Njemu izmedu ost .log, uhvaljujemo

man, hod fallen illtoo mental disOfder ond SOthe project woscantinued

restaura-

obnovu Ali'pa~ine

dtamije u Sarajevu, projekat brcanske gradske vijecnice, medrese u Travniku

i poru~ene kir.lethane (Citaoniee) u Banjoj l.uci.
Pitanje autorstva

nad projektom S"'r.ljevske gradske vijeeniee, zu .d na

vedenih okolnosti i n.kon vBI,' od slotinu godina ostaje zamdeno.

nisu ra::rije~ene ni kontroverze

Takoder,

oko i1:bora lokadje za Vijecnicu, odredivanja

njenih gabarita, primjene neomaurskog

stila, etc ... Profesor Dtema! Celic veli

third architect. a Cnil Metod Ivekanc.lt

byo

\'\IOSwith the highest lecommendo

tlons of his Vienna professors, especially that of Edmund Stix, thot Ivekovic
was given the job and already by 1893 he hod began work on finishing up
Wittek's detailed deSIgn and overseemg construction. TO'NOrdsthe end of
1894, construction works wele completed and sections of the building \...ere
functionol. The to\"ITlgovernment

and the district court moved Inlo the build-

ing as they had lost their own offices ot Kanak Street due to a fire on October
4, 1894 CirilMetod lvekovic confilmed that he woso detailed and systematic

u jednom ese;u, dOlje u Vijetnici: ~...na neki n .ein kulminirao duh vremena,

OIchitect, very kl"lO\Jtedgeoble of the architectural

refiektirajuc:i iSlovremeno sjaj i bijedu suprotnih

tAoonsh style and the general Islamic civilengineenng

heritoge, also showing

himself to be a first closs restofOtian and conservation

expert. Among other

kultura i civilizacija, ko;e su

u za;edniekom grcu neminovno odumirale.~

Prilikom uvodenja u dutnost

novog Gradskog zastupstva,

20. aprila 1896,

styles, primolily the Nee-

things, it is him we have to thank (or the renovation of the Ali-Pasha Mosque

godinI,', zemaljski poglavar, Jahan bDron A~I (Johann Appel), sveeano je

in SOIajeva, the Brcko City Hall Project, the ModfOsoh in Trovnik and the torn

otvorio i Gradskom poglavarstvu

dO','/n kiroethone (reodin<J fooms) in 80nJa luka.

Authorship over the project of the SofOjevoClty Hall still remains rother

prMao Vijecnieu. U to; funkciji, ovo zdanje

je bilo sve do 1949. godinI,'. kada je postala dom Narodnoj biblioteci Bosne
i Hercegovine. Od 1910. do 1914. godinI,' u Vijecnici je zasjed .o i Bos.nski

perplexed due to all these circumstances

sabor, Kasnije su i druge kulturne institucije privremeno bile smjdtene

have possed. Contloversy surlounding

u proslorima

also remains, as does the determino\lan

Vijecniee (Akademija nauk.1 i umjetnosti

Sara;eva ...).
Mimo nes!aganja u urbanistickom,

BiH; Mu::ej gr.ld .

even after over one hundred years

thechoiceof

location of the t(l\'m hall

of its dlmensrons, the leasons for

the Neo-t.1<>ol'ishstyle, etc. Plofessor 02emal Celie wrote in one of his essays
arhitektonskom,

posebice estetskom

that the City Hall ... in ocertain

way gathers the spirit of time, reflecting

prosudivanju vrijednosti ovog objekta, Vije~niea je Zilrana postala prepoznat

both the glitter and the grief of opposing cultures and civllisotions that were

ljivim vizue!nim simbolom Sar.ljeva, nez.aobil.aznom tinjenieom veunom

inevitably
ithering away in a common tremor.

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