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24. Vjekoslav Žugalj, the catalogue
of the exhibition Gradiška on the
River Sava, page 5. Mr. Milan Kruhek, an
employee of the History Museum in Zagreb,
drew my attention to the existence of
these plans and the photos were taken by
Jozo Vranić from the Museum of
Zagreb Town. I found the copies of maps
and ground-plans in the graphic
collections of the Croatian Archives and
National & University Library in Zagreb,
originally from the catalogue mentioned
above. These photos were later used by
many other authors for their journalistic
needs with no source stated which could
be misleading for the reader. That is why
I point out the origin of the photos
here.
At the beginning of 1997 I selected three
coloured geographic plans from 1785 in
the National Archives of Croatia; they
have not yet been published.
25. According to L.I. Oriovčanin, the
firsi commander of Gradiška, after
its liberation, was Lieutenant Colonel
Guldivar. The Lieutenant Colonel Vukvuk
came after him. Colonel Petraš,
later the owner of Cernik castle, became
the commander of the fortress and of the
village in 1716.
26. The plan of the fortress in 1725.
27. The contact with other villages was
maintained through the service of two
"mounted letter carriers" from 1750. This
service was abolished on 21 January 1803
and mail services were performed by the
garrison soldiers. The main road was
Gradiška - Dubovac - Okučani
- Nova Gradiška. F.S. Engel in his
description of the villages of the
district of the Gradiška regiment
outlines that the road which established
links with Dubac was made only in 1784. I
suppose that this road was then
reconstructed or repaired because it was
on the map made in 1767.
28. F.S. Engel, page 186
29. Most authors who described the reasons
for establishing the new settlement
Friedrichsdorf which became Nova
Gradiška in 1748, state the fear
of floods as the most important reason
for moving the military centre to a new
location. The floods around the fortress
were frequent but not unpredictable so
these reasons can be accepted as minor or
less important. The main reason for
raising new headquarters and a
settlement, which was soon to become the
administrative and military centre of the
regimental district, was the vicinity of
the strategic west-east road which
established links with almost all
settlements of the region. At the same
time it was near the beginning of the
road which established links between Nova
Gradiška and Cernik as well as
other villages of the Požega
parish. Apart from these reasons, an
additional motive was its central
geographical position in relation to
other settlements of the regimental
district.
30. Lazar Ćelap, Zbornik HIS-a,
Slavonski Brod 1972, Page 10-16.
31. F.S. Engel, page 187.
The seal of the Guild Association of
Stara Gradiška is kept in the
Croatian History Museum in Zagreb. In the
central part of the seal, there is a
crowned shield divided into 12 segments
representing tools and emblems of
different crafts: carpenters, locksmiths,
joiners, bricklayers, blacksmiths, wagon-
makers, shoe-makers, bakers, coopers,
potters and tanners- Vlasta Brajković,
The Seals, catalogue No. 188, Zagreb,
1980.
32. Surveillance of the rich forests of
the district of the Gradiška
regiment was performed in the eighteenth
century by the manager, a game-keeper and
35 foresters.
33. Vladimir Bedenko, Urbanistička
prošlost Stare Gradiške
(Urban History of Stara Gradiška),
Godišnjak zaštite spomenika
kulture Hrvatske 2-3 (Annual of Croatian
Monument Protection) Issue 2-3, 1976/7,
page 112, Čakovec 1977.
34. L.I. Oriovčanin, page 56.
The watch-tower garrison consisted of
eight border-guards who had to bear the
expenses of the eight-day sentinel.
Cordon sentinels and watch-towers were
abolished in 1872 and this service was
from then on carried out by state
servants - "revenue guards".
35. Merchants coming from Bosnia were
required by the authorities of that time
to pay their duties with coins that had
to be thrown in a container filled with
vinegar, for desinfection. This
precaution was not required of Slavonian
merchants when they had to pay something
to the Turkish citizens.
36. "De Origine Vetero Gradisca" - the
copy provided by Prof. H.
Hadžialagić. The rectory in
Uskoci was devastated by the Serbian army
from neighbouring Bosanska
Gradiška in autumn 1991. Valuable
documentation and the church archives
were destroyed or lost together with the
rich library housing books from the
seventeenth to the twentieth century.
37. The Scheme of the Serbian Orthodox
Eparchy of Pakrac for the Year 1898,
Pakrac 1898.
38. Bedenko, page 114.
39. Julije Jančula, Franciscans in
Cernik, page 210; Slavonska Požega
1980.
40. The Chronicle of the Parish of Stara
Gradiška.
41. The following inscription can be found
on the damaged stone board:
"The commanding general, Baron Franjo
Filipović, started building this
rectory on 26th August 1880 and it was
finished by the governor, Count Ladislav
Pefačević, on 30th June 1881
during the reign of King Franjo Josip I,
under the supervision of the Cardinal
Archbishop Josip Mihalović and
with the efforts of the parishioners and
assistance of Krunoslav
Bešlić, the parish priest
of Stara Gradiška".
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