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The Hadžišabanović villa is an Austrian-style villa located in Gornje Pale - Koran, near the source of the Miljacka river (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina). The Commission to Preserve National Monuments designated the villa as a  National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina  in September 2002.

The villa belonged to the Hadžišabanović merchant family, famous for their sawmills and fortune built from logging and wood processing.

The Hadžišabanović family also owned an architecturally-significant residence in Sarajevo, the Hadžišabanović house also a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

History
The villa was built by the Sarajevo trading family of Hadžišabanović in 1912. The project was completed in March of the same year in the carpentry studio of August Tabory, the Hungarian-born Jewish master in Sarajevo.

It was privately owned until 1946 by the Hadžišabanović and Škaljić family, when it was nationalized by the Yugoslav authorities. Today, the villa is owned by the Pale municipality.

It was built during the Austro-Hungarian rule of Bosnia, as the family’s country-house, spread over two floors with two spires (towers), a terrace and walled rose garden with fountain.

In 1898, the Hadžišabanović brothers in addition to their two sawmills in Sarajevo, built another facility in Pale, with double the capacity for processing. This new facility produced eletricity, and had its own waterworks, with water supplied directly from the spring of the nearby river Miljacka. It even had a private railway track, connecting the sawmill at Koran with Sarajevo and Fojnica (where the family had other sawmills) and beyond. The sawmills generally satisfied the local market, but with the construction of the railway to Višegrad in eastern Bosnia, the Hadžišabanović sawmill in Koran significantly expanded its capacity. It started exporting throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire and later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

In 1910, Pale had 179 houses and 1,082 inhabitants. At that time, Hadžišabanović's property in Pale included an ambulance, a farm, bakery, shop and even a school for the workers' children.

Long-term negligence by the state, inadequate maintenance and unfavorable weather and other conditions, brought the villa to a very bad condition. Due to long-term wetting of the walls, frost and other factors, as well as very high snow in 2000/2001. year, there was a collapse of the structure and the collapse of the western part. The rest of the west wall is also very unstable and there is a real danger of it collapsing, which would lead to the collapse of most of the building.

The villa was featured in the Yugoslav television mini-series “Tale” (1977).

Architecture
The villa is a massive two-story house built of brick and plastered with extension-cement mortar. It was built purposely as a country-house. It represents an architectural expression from the period of the Austro-Hungarian Empire - the style of an Austrian villa, which is visible in the appearance and materialization of the building.

Today's condition of the building differs significantly from the appearance in the August Tabory project. Probably during the later interventions (the largest in 1936), the appearance of the complete building changed, so that the existing facades were solved much more simply, without any details in wood, but with interpolated new contents and more complex roof surfaces. Two towers are prominent on the building, of which the eastern one is covered with a tent four-pitched roof, while the other (western) is covered by an eight-pitched roof with salonite slabs. Roof cornices stand out from the profiling on the towers. The window openings are large in size and are mostly arched. The frames are made of plaster. The building is currently covered with tiles and sheet metal.