Hrvatski
Opening of the exhibition "Traditional architecture of Hrvatski Zagorje"
24.08.2017. on Thursday, the guest exhibition "Traditional architecture of Hrvatski Zagorje" by Branka Šprem - Lovrić and Tatjana Brlek was opened in the Museum of the City of Koprivnica; whose theme is the presentation of the architectural heritage of the Zagorje region.
The exhibition is related to wood and stone as the basic building materials from which residential and commercial buildings were built, which made up the traditional Zagorje economy : house - cottage, barn - barn, pigsty - kočok, well - čatrja ....
Using centuries of knowledge and experience, master carpenters (roommates) would make wooden beams (plans) that would be Croatian according to the principle - vugel (stretched oak beams assembled on a notch, the outer parts of the beams cut across the corners of the houses) or German vugel or zinc embroidery (the main beams at the corners were cut straight) were stacked on a stone foundation in a basic, usually rectangular structure of the building, on which the roof was then stacked on two waters and covered with a cover made of rye straw, grooved concrete tiles or pepper tiles. The construction of the buildings followed the rather uneven configuration of the terrain, so ground-floor commercial and residential buildings built on semi-pitched terrain were created, buildings built on steel (under one part of the building there is a buried basement of masonry) and buildings built on a first floor (the basements are built with stone breakers, while the first floor is built of wooden beams).
Examples of the traditional architecture of Hrvatski Zagorje, which were created in the 1930s, can be seen today in the Museum "Staro selo" Kumrovec, and the exhibition shows the methods of building traditional buildings and preserved traditional buildings that are still in the function of housing today, and are located in the immediate vicinity of Kumrovec.
You can view the exhibition in the Museum of the City of Koprivnica until September 30., 2017.