Pregledni rad
Livestock landscape of the island of Vis - Krušovica pond
Sanja Buble
; Konzervatorski odjel Ministarstva kulture u Splitu
Sažetak
In the medieval economy of the island of Vis, along with agriculture and fishing, livestock breeding was an important branch of earning. Over time, livestock breeding has been declining, although in the middle of the 19th century, cheese was one of the island’s major export products. At the end of the 19th and in the 20th century, livestock breeding completely vanished from the island. Two ponds registered in an Austrian cadastral survey in the first part of the 19th century testify about the livestock landscape of the island of Vis; the pond in Velo polje and Krušovica pond. Krušovica pond is particularly interesting since the transformation of the island’s economy transformed it as well, adapting it to the new function. Krušovica pond was created as a natural accumulation of rainwater on the clay ground of the Krušovica hill between Podhumlje and Dračevo field. It is laid on the pastures, far away from the village. During the time of the island’s economy transformation when livestock breeding gave way to viticulture and fishing, the pond was further deepened and reinforced with a dry-wall base, the bottom was paved with stone plates, and stairs for descending into the water were built on three sides. It was transformed into a well, the water of which was used for washing laundry by people from Podhumlje, Žena Glava, and Duboka.
The fact that Krušovica pond was given a special cadastral number (parcel) and that it was noted in blue in 1834 on the cadastral map, indicates that it was reinforced before (or during) the making of the Austrian cadastre. Three paths lead to Krušovica. Every village had its own access to Krušovica and its own stairs for descending into the water, i.e. its own place next to the pond.
Krušovica is a unique monument of traditional architecture on the island of Vis. Its name "pond" (lokva, in Croatian) which was preserved among people, testifies about the ancient past of the island in which now-forgotten livestock breeding was an important branch of earning, while with its shape it testifies about the transformations of the island’s economy in the middle of the 19th century in which, in its new function as a well, it had a significant place in the traditional culture of Komiža.
Ključne riječi
island of Vis; Krušovica pond; livestock breeding; dry-wall architecture
Hrčak ID:
130905
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Datum izdavanja:
23.5.2013.
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