{"id":12097,"date":"2024-10-31T10:18:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T09:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hipzg.hr\/history-of-the-palace\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:01:41","slug":"history-of-the-palace","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hipzg.hr\/en\/history-of-the-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\"\"The palace at Opati\u010dka 10 has spent most of its life and still does, housing various institutions. Only at the very beginning was it a nobleman’s residential house, and then a palace, but then it did not look nearly as it does today. Archival data show that after the great fire in 1706, there were four houses on the site of the present-day plot, of which only one was built. It is evident that this is a house built on the site of the present-day palace, according to the plans for a one-story house with a basement, with an L-shaped ground plan, which was located on the line of the medieval defensive wall. In 1810, Josip Vojkovi\u0107 (Vojkffy) bought land under the house, towards Duga (today’s Radi\u0107eva) Street, in order to arrange a garden. That was when the doors on the eastern facade of the building were opened for the first time, thus establishing communication with the city area outside the walls. In 1838, Vojkovi\u0107’s heiress Ana Paravi\u0107 began a complete adaptation and reconstruction of the existing house. Aleksandar Brdari\u0107 was hired for this job, and according to his designs a three-winged palace was built in 1840. The old tower that was located next to the house and remained without function was demolished, and the existing building was incorporated into the whole of the new palace. The construction of this palace also introduced some innovations into the usual external organization of the space: an inner courtyard was designed, which was separated from the street only by a fence, the main eastern facade was built in the form of a portico with Ionic columns (a first in Zagreb architecture), and the greenery on the slopes was arranged in the form of a park. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The palace is <\/span>severely damaged in the earthquake that hit Zagreb in 1880 <\/span>, and the<\/span> Vojkffy<\/span> -Paravi\u0107 family moved out<\/span> .<\/span> When in 1882<\/span> the Royal Croatian-Slavonian-Dalmatian Provincial Government<\/span> sold its unprofitable property in Kutjevo, it used part of the money it received for it to buy a building at Opati\u010dka 10 and place the Department of Worship and Teaching there<\/span> .<\/span> Soon (1891) the Department was headed by<\/span> <\/span>Iso<\/span> Kr\u0161njavi<\/span><\/span><\/a> and establishes the Construction Administration for the reconstruction of the building with<\/span><\/span> Herman Boll\u00e9<\/span><\/span><\/a> as the leader. Thus began the complete reconstruction of the building, according to Kr\u0161njavi’s ideas and Boll\u00e9’s designs, which ended with the ceremonial opening in May 1895 with the performance of the hymn to Delphic Apollo (which had been found in Athens not long before, and it should be noted that this was the fourth performance in Europe). <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"First, the courtyard on the street side, facing today’s Opati\u010dka Street, was adapted: the high wall that blocked the view of the courtyard was replaced with an artistically crafted fence made of wrought iron and tin sheets, and the well was replaced with a fountain in which, according to<\/span> Kr\u0161njavi’s<\/span> ideas,<\/span> Perseus’s statue<\/span> was to be placed. statue. Most of the changes, however, concerned the interior, which had to be adapted to the new function and made as representative as possible. The halls were renovated, the central hall was given a new wooden mirrored vault, the balcony on the eastern facade was removed, and communication between the floors was improved. <\/span>The most important artists of the time were engaged in the work of decorating the palace. <\/span><\/span>White<\/span> C<\/span> sikos<\/span> Se<\/span> s<\/span> sija<\/span><\/span><\/a>, <\/span><\/span>Celestin<\/span> Mato Medovic<\/span><\/span><\/a>, <\/span><\/span>Vlaho Bukovac<\/span><\/span><\/a>, <\/span><\/span>Oton Ivekovic<\/span><\/span><\/a>, <\/span><\/span>Ferdo Kovacevic<\/span><\/span><\/a>, <\/span><\/span>Ivan<\/span> Tisov<\/span><\/span><\/a>, <\/span><\/span>Robert Frange\u0161<\/span><\/span><\/a> and <\/span><\/span>Rudolf Valdec<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/span> By integrating architecture, sculpture and painting into a historicist synthesis, the building represents a true<\/span> Gesamtkunstwerk<\/span> 19th century. With this project, Kr\u0161njavi marked both the peak and the end of historicism in Croatia. The next major intervention on the palace was the addition of the second floor in 1913\/14 and the expansion of the side wings. That was when the ceiling collapsed in <\/span>Pompeian<\/span> Hall and was repainted by<\/span> Csikos’s<\/span> students Marijana Belo\u0161evi\u0107 and Anka Martini\u0107.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"In the new circumstances, after Croatia joined the new South Slavic state community, the former<\/span> Department<\/span> for Religious Worship and Education<\/span> continued its activities<\/span> .<\/span> In November<\/span> 1919<\/span> ,<\/span> the Department was<\/span> renamed the Commission for Education and Religions.<\/span> N<\/span>The name and territorial jurisdiction of this Department changed in the following years, but until the establishment of the Banovina of Croatia in 1939, it was only a branch office of the central ministry in Belgrade. <\/span>With the establishment of<\/span> the Banovina of Croatia<\/span> ,<\/span> the The Department of Education, which took over the affairs of the former Belgrade Ministry in the area of \u200b\u200bthe new banovina. This department did not last long, because with the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia in 1941, the new government also established a corresponding ministry, which was initially called the Ministry of Education and was headed by Minister Mile Budak. It was later renamed the Ministry of Public Education, whose jurisdiction was extended to other fields (for example, propaganda). After the Ministry of Public Education, another public cultural institution found its place in the building – the Republic Conservation Institute, and immediately before the arrival of our Institute, the premises in the building were shared by the Archive for the History of the Workers’ Movement and SUBNOR <\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"In 1962, our Institute moved into Opati\u010dka 10 and has been operating in this building continuously ever since, just under different names ( <\/span><\/span>see History of the Institute<\/span><\/span>). <\/span>AND<\/span>During the 1970s and 1980s, the institute often had to share the building with other users: with the editorial offices of several newspapers, the Center for Social Activities of the Croatian Socialist Youth Association, and the Self-Governing Science Interest Community of the Slovak Republic of Croatia. At the time of the Institute’s entry into these premises, the building required urgent adaptation. In the first years of his mandate, Tu\u0111man managed to secure considerable financial resources for the work of the Institute, so in the early 1960s, the most necessary installations were carried out, necessary for the functionality of the building (central heating, improvement of the low-voltage network, etc.). Tu\u0111man’s fall out of favor with the party leadership was also reflected in the difficult financing of the Institute. Due to financial and later war (un)opportunities, work on the thorough renovation of the building began only in 1996, during the time of director Mirko Valenti\u0107. After long-term and often painstaking restoration-conservation works, complete rehabilitation <\/span>The building, under the expert guidance of the Croatian Restoration Institute team and based on a project by the Croatian Civil Engineering Institute, was finally completed in 1999. The landscaping of the garden and the opening of the entrance to Radi\u0107eva Street had to wait another ten years and were only recently completed (the work lasted from 2007 to 2009). All that remains is to wait for the perfect conditions to open the building to the general public so that the palace with its three beautiful halls and the gallery of paintings in them can become accessible to all interested parties. <\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The palace is currently (as of 2022) undergoing a constructive and comprehensive renovation following the earthquakes that hit Zagreb in March and December 2020.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

* The text about the history of the Palace is mostly taken from: Half a Century of the Past. Croatian Institute of History (1961-2011), edited by Zdenko Radeli\u0107 and Jasna Turkalj, (Zagreb: Croatian Institute of History, 2011), 187-189. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

History of the Palace The palace at Opati\u010dka 10 has spent most of its life and still does, housing various institutions. Only at the very beginning was it a nobleman’s residential house, and then a palace, but then it did not look nearly as it does today. Archival data show that after the great fire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"iawp_total_views":18,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12097","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipzg.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipzg.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipzg.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipzg.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipzg.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12097"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipzg.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14300,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipzg.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12097\/revisions\/14300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipzg.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}