Reception of Zagreb Traditional Wooden House in the Brick Residential Architecture of Zagreb’s Opatovina and Upper Town in the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries
Recepcija zagrebačke tradicionalne drvene kuće u zidanoj stambenoj arhitekturi zagrebačke Opatovine i Gornjega grada u 18., 19. i 20. stoljeću

Summary/Abstract: During the foundation period of Zagreb’s Gradec and Opatovina, a specific architectural type of wooden single-storey residential houses emerged, the so-called purgerska hiža, based on the traditional wooden architecture of wider Zagreb area, which was defined, for the first time in this article, as Zagreb traditional wooden house. Features of this house type can be recognised in brick residential houses from the 18th century onwards, both in Opatovina and Gradec, and they became a staple piece of architecture commissioned by the economically less powerful and less educated. This article describes the prominent features of this architectural type, as well as the specificities of a more elaborate type of two-storey houses that developed therefrom. Here it is shown that this type persisted in the brick form long into the 19th century, and that certain features occasionally cropped up even in the 20th century. All Upper Town and Opatovina houses that can be subsumed under this type were identified in this article, as well as houses derived from that type, which can be considered its modifications, and they were analysed in order to determine from where the influences on this type of architecture had come, adopting a new thesis on Zagreb as a border zone that was influenced by two ethnographic regions: Turopolje and Hrvatsko Zagorje.

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