Dec 12, 2014

Vintage from Bosnia and Herzegovina


Memorial to Franz Ferdinand and Sophie, Sarajevo, 1917, by Eugene Bory

The 8 metre high Neo-Classical monument
included a pair of thin columns on a tall sarcophagus-like granite base with bronze relief bust sculptures of the deceased pair and their family coats of arms at the top.

With the fragmentation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1918, Bosnia and Herzegovina became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes - the monument to Franz Ferdinand and Sophie was taken down, along with the memorial plaque across the street. Within a few years, the bridge the monument had been attached to was renamed for the assassin Gavrilo Princip, who had become something of a national hero in the new Yugoslav state for having risen up against the foreign occupiers and for triggering a war that would lead to the formation of a state uniting the South Slavs. 
In 1930 a new plaque honouring Princip was erected at the assassination site and a museum to the Young Bosnia movement of which Princip was a member was opened in a building at the same intersection.


source: academia.edu


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