Rančić Family House In Grocka
The architecture
In the middle of the 19th century, changes were made in the design construction for, which dominated in the village in the 1830s and as a result so-called Grocka town houses appeared, so Rančić family house also belonged to this group of houses. The basis is widened and the house got larger dimensions and new organization of space. As most of such houses in Grocka, Rančić family house after the change consisted of four rooms of a strictly defined purpose: heart room, living room, two bedrooms, basement and a porch, which on the corner enlarges into the veranda. The house was built in half-timbered construction, with the frame built out of the oak beams filled with wattle and daub or adobe. The foundations are built from the stone and oak beams. The roof is low, four-sided and covered in ceramide. The roof drains which protect the facade reach one metre in width. In the inside of the house, on the porch and on the veranda, the floors are paved with bricks or wooden boards. Although peculiar, first of all in the arrangements and purpose of the rooms, the town house in Grocka, that is, Rančić family house, is not isolated, but it is connected to the same house type as in towns in Podunavlje and Pomoravlje. Similarities between Grocka town houses and those in other towns in Podunavlje (Smederevo, Dobra, Golubac) can be associated with the common natural and social factors which existed in this area. From the aspect of architectural and ethnographic values, Rančić family house represents a rarely saved example of the folk construction in the area around the City of Belgrade, whose characteristics represent the great achievement of construction, residential and artistic culture.
Conservation works
Conservation and restoration works were conducted for the first time in 1970, after which the Rančić Family House became the Native Land Museum where Dubočajska collection of Dr. Коstić. During the year 2000, the sanitation of damage was carried out and the surrounding area was decorated. The building is now home to the cultural centre of the Municipality of Grocka.
The cultural monument
The Rančić family house has had the status of the cultural monument of great importance since 1966.
See also
References
- ^ The group of authors, Grocka, Cultural Heritage, The Cultural Heritage Protection Institution of the City of Belgrade, 20, Belgrade 1970.
- ^ N.Živković, Folk construction –the cultural monument today, Belgrade 2007, N.Živković, The houses of Grocka – the paradigm of time, The Heritage XII, Belgrade 2011.
- ^ The decision of the Institute no. 525/4 from 27 June 1966, Cultural Heritage of great importance, „The Official Gazette SRS, no. 14/79