Vogošća Municipality

Summary

Vogošća municipality today lies within Sarajevo Canton, in the Federation of Bosnia & Herzegovina entity.

In July 1966, a survey of monuments and memorials to the NOB and Revolution was undertaken on the territory of the municipality, with a total of 3 such memorials being recorded (1 bust, 1 memorial plaque, and 1 grave or mass grave). Later, in 1989, the NOB heritage of Vogošća municipality was the subject of the 1989 book Spomenici Revolucije Grada Sarajeva, authored by Vesna Mušeta-Aščerić (pp.299-305), with a total of 10 monuments were documented as having existed at this time. In the process of research, no documentation could be found that attests to any additional memorials created on the territory of the municipality after 1989.

The report for this municipality contains 9 of these monuments (with two – busts of Ivo Lola and Jurica Ribar – being categorized as a single monument within it), as the final monument documented by Mušeta-Aščerić is a private family grave, and this has therefore been excluded from the research.

Sarajevo Canton’s Spatial Plan for 2003 to 2023 (Vlada Kantona Sarajevo 2006, 221 pp.) makes no mention of any monument or memorial to the NOB on the territory of Vogošća municipality, and Vogošća’s own Tourism Action Plan for 2017-2022 (Općina Vogošća 2016, 40 pp.) likewise fails to mention any, although the ‘monument to the first lightbulb in Bosnia and Herzegovina’, created on the former pedestal of the busts of Ivo Lola and Jurica Ribar, is mentioned on three separate occasions within this document as a site of interest.

Monuments & Memorials

Village/MZ	Address	Name	Type	Year	Author	Still Exists	Date Mapped	Description
Vogošća	Ul. Izeta Delića	Memorial ossuary of fallen fighters and illegal workers	Ossuary	1969	Zlatko Ugljen, Petar Krstić	Yes	January 2017	Restored in 2008, further re-painting of inscriptions undertaken c.2016.
Vogošća	Spasoja Blagovčanina	Monument to the Igman March	Monument	1984		Yes	July 2019	Inscribed as a National Monument of Bosnia & Herzegovina. Renovated c.2021.
Vogošća	Akifa efendije Biserovića 35	Bust of NH Moša Pijade	Bust	1961	Petar Krstić	No	February 2020	Bust and pedestal no longer exist, although foundations of pedestal still visible.
Vogošća	'PRETIS' factory	Plaque commemorating Partisan internment camp	Memorial Plaque			No	February 2020
Semizovac	Porodice ef. Ramić elementary school	Plaque commemorating Ivo Lola and Jurica Ribar	Memorial Plaque	1968		No	February 2020
Semizovac	Porodice ef. Ramić elementary school	Bust of Ivo Lola Ribar	Bust	1978		No	October 2019	Pedestal recycled and used as base of monument to the first lightbulb in BiH.
Semizovac	Porodice ef. Ramić elementary school	Bust of Jurica Ribar	Bust	1978		No	October 2019	Pedestal recycled and used as base of monument to the first lightbulb in BiH.
Krivoglavci		Monument to Victims of Fascist Terror	Monument	1975	Strahinja Petrović	Yes	January 2020	Ossuary already planned for this location by 1960.
Crni Vrh	Lodge of ULO 'Lane'	Plaque commemorating the formation of the 1st Crni Vrh Partisan Company and the Igman March	Memorial Plaque	1984		Replaced	February 2020	Plaque replaced in 2010.
Vogošća	UNIS enterprise directorate (former)	Plaque to commemorate workers' self-management	Memorial Plaque	1952				Made of copper or bronze
Vogošća		Collective grave of fallen fighters and illegal workers	Communal Grave	1954		No		Replaced by memorial ossuary in 1969.

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Map

Key

Number	Name
1	Memorial ossuary of fallen fighters and illegal workers, Vogošća
2	Monument to the Igman March, Vogošća
3	Bust of NH Moša Pijade, Vogošća
4	Plaque commemorating internment camp for Partisan fighters, Vogošća
5	Plaque commemorating Ivo Lola and Jurica Ribar, Semizovac
6	Busts of Ivo Lola and Jurica Ribar, Semizovac
7	Monument to Victims of Fascist Terror, Krivoglavci
8	Plaque commemorating the NOB, Crni Vrh

(precise coordinates can be obtained by contacting the author

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