Први наменски грађени болнички објекти у Ваљеву

Abstract

The year 2017 marks the 150th anniversary of founding Valjevo Hospital. During the century and a half of active work, the hospital complexes have been at different times in three different locations, from a house rented from a Valjevo trader in the centre of Kasaba (since 1867), through purpose-built buildings on the edge of the town (since 1884), to the new, also purpose-built facility, on the periphery of the expanded city (since 1954). Of these three locations, the greatest interest of the public and the researchers of the past, especially when the great sufferings of 1914 and 1915 are concerned, was aroused by the second, with the first purpose-built buildings. However, considering this location, special attention was paid exclusively to the surgical pavilion of the hospital complex, built in 1906, while the facilities from 1885 were completely neglected, and were presumed not to be preserved. However, the research carried out in 2015 and 2016 indicated that two of the three buildings dating to 1884 exist today, in their original dimensions, but that their history has not been recognized, nor have they been registered and protected as a cultural asset – as heritage.

Keywords: Valjevo; hospital; buildings; structures; location