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Monument to the killed soldiers in the First World War in Ivanovčani is a stone cross in the Bjelovar quarter of Ivanovčani on the adress "prilaz Andrije Hebranga 1" and the historic locality known as Novi Ivanovčani.

The monument was repurposed on September 3, 1922 by the villagers of the then village of Ivanovčani for their thirteen soldiers who died in the First World War.

Today the monument is used to pay tribute to all the people and soldiers of Bjelovar who died in the First World War.

History
The monument was originally raised on the entrance to the military training ground of Logorište and Ivanovčani (what is today the roundabout) in honour of Franz Joseph I of Austria. The monument was raised on the Kings birthday on the August 18. 1916. under the iniciative of the royal Varaždin 16th Infantry Regiment.. The monument was compried of the same stone base as today atop of which was a copper bust of the Kings likeness.

At the base of the monument there was a plauqe saying: ''„In unwandelbarer Treue und unbegrenzter Liebe die allzeit getruen Warasdiner 18. VIII.1916.“ (translated;In unchanging loyalty and boundless love, always faithful "Varaždinians" August 18, 1916.")''

The monument was simply known The Kings monument in Ivanovčani.

With the end of the First World War the residents of the then village of Ivanovčani collaborativly repurposed the monument into one for their thirteen soldiers who died durring the war.

Durring the socialist Yugoslavia the monument as intended for removal due to its location in the middle of the then Rado Končar (today Andrija Hebrang) street until a local by the name of Mislav Marčec proposed that the monument be moved to his land. The monument was moved and has stayed where it is today.