Ethno Park in Sovljak (Municipality of Bogatić) consists of structures: house, granary, barn, wheelwright's shop, bread oven, and a porch for agricultural tools.[1]
It was established in 1971 on an area of 2 hectares, with an authentic display of traditional folk architecture and complete interior furnishings and folk craft products, of both artistic and economic character, as well as all items related to everyday rural life. The content of the ethno park includes examples of ten typical buildings, representing a Mačva house with a yard, as it was at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.[2]
Hajduk Night - Wedding
editIn the yard, part of a traditional wedding takes place every August as part of the tourist event "Hajduk Night", where wedding guests coming from Bogatić take the bride from the house.
Appearance of the Ethno Park
editSovljak is located on the road from Bogatić to Crna Bara, five kilometers from the municipal center of Bogatić and equally distant from the river Drina. The Ethno Park features an authentic yard with a homestead, over a hundred years old. The yard is dominated by a house, built in the second phase of construction in Mačva of the "osećanski" type, typical for that time – with two entrances, i.e., an entrance and an exit, and a sundial indicating the exact time. Next to the house is an old linden tree with a trunk diameter of 1.80 meters.
In the yard, there is a vajat (small house) where newlyweds traditionally began their life together, a granary whose upper part was used for storing corn, and the lower masonry part as a storage or basement. In the open sheds, transport vehicles such as chariots, carriages, carts, and sleds were kept. Today, these once-only means of transportation are preserved as museum exhibits. A wheat thresher reminds of past times and harvest customs.
Also preserved are the field furnace where bread was baked and plums were dried in the fall, and the granary where wheat, oats, and barley were stored in the past. The interior of the house is authentic for the past century. There are: bed, low table, loom, baby walker, cradle, distaff and other household items. The house also contains a permanent exhibition of Mačva painters.[3]
Gallery
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Sources
edit- ^ Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments Valjevo, Accessed 28. 10. 2013.
- ^ Bogatić/Sovljak Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine, Accessed 28. 10. 2013.
- ^ Bogatić, Accessed 28. 10. 2013.
