Vukovar Water Tower, Vukovar, Croatia
War memorial that was hit more than 600 times during the Serbian siege of Vukovar. The Croatian forces kept their flag hanging at the top thus attracting the attacks. The tower became a symbol for resistance, defiance and invincibility. Height, 50 m.
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To get to the water tower, I had to walk up an unpaved hill to get there.
let me also just say there is an apple tree nearby
Vukovar Water Tower - HARD WAY Wood Carving - Part 1
NOTE: No experience. No knowledge. No powerful tools. I approach to this project with my bear hands and limited set of tools. My goal is to create at least look-like copy of original Vukovar Water Tower.
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ABOUT VUKOVAR WATER TOWER
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Vukovar water tower (Croatian: Vukovarski vodotoranj) is a water tower in the Croatian city of Vukovar. It is one of the most famous symbols of Vukovar and the suffering of the city and the country in the Battle of Vukovar and the Croatian War of Independence, when the water tower and the city itself were largely destroyed by the Serbian forces
The water tower was designed by the company Plan and built by Hidrotehna Zagreb, in the late 1960s. It was built in a city park, popularly known as Najpar-bašća, in the district of Mitnica.[1]
Until the war, the top of the tower was home to a restaurant with a view over Vukovar, Dunav and surrounding vineyards.
During the Battle of Vukovar, the water tower was one of the most frequent targets of artillery. It was hit more than 600 times during the siege.
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Starting a long journey across Croatia right by visiting Vukovar, a town destroyed at the start of the Yugoslav wars, & Zagreb.
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Coming from Serbia, I found it to be important to visit the Danube town of Vukovar, a town that was just about obliterated during the 3 month Siege of Vukovar in 1991. This town saw some serious devastation and death at the start of the Yugoslav Wars and I wanted to see for myself some of the things that happened. Throughout the region, you can see buildings with bullet holes and cannon holes including the Vukovar water tower or Vukovarski vodotoranj.
Next day, I set off for the capital city of Zagreb where I was once again, welcomed with rain and cold weather, the third capital city where it rained miserably. But when it cleared up the next day, I had a good opportunity to walk around and enjoy the city. Zagreb doesn't usually get much praise in comparison to Croatia's cities on the coast, but it's a beautiful cosmopolitan city with gorgeous buildings and city center.
Next day, I set off for Slovenia for 2 week before I made a grand return to explore Croatia's infamous coastline. :)
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My first ever glimpse of the famous Vukovar water tower.
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The Battle of Vukovar was an 87-day siege of Vukovar in eastern Croatia by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various paramilitary forces from Serbia, between August and November 1991. Before the Croatian War of Independence the Baroque town was a prosperous, mixed community of Croats, Serbs and other ethnic groups. As Yugoslavia began to break up, Serbia's President Slobodan Milošević and Croatia's President Franjo Tuđman began pursuing nationalist politics. In 1990, an armed insurrection was started by Croatian Serb militias, supported by the Serbian government and paramilitary groups, who seized control of Serb-populated areas of Croatia. The JNA began to intervene in favour of the rebellion, and conflict broke out in the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia in May 1991. In August, the JNA launched a full-scale attack against Croatian-held territory in eastern Slavonia, including Vukovar.
Vukovar was defended by around 1,800 lightly armed soldiers of the Croatian National Guard (ZNG) and civilian volunteers, against as many as 36,000 JNA troops and Serb paramilitaries equipped with heavy armour and artillery. During the battle, shells and rockets were fired into the town at a rate of up to 12,000 a day.[7] At the time, it was the fiercest and most protracted battle seen in Europe since 1945, and Vukovar was the first major European town to be entirely destroyed since the Second World War.[8][9] When Vukovar fell on 18 November 1991, several hundred soldiers and civilians were massacred by Serb forces and at least 20,000 inhabitants were expelled. Most of Vukovar was ethnically cleansed of its non-Serb population and became part of the self-declared Republic of Serbian Krajina. Several Serb military and political officials, including Milošević, were later indicted and in some cases jailed for war crimes committed during and after the battle.
The battle exhausted the JNA and proved a turning point in the Croatian war. A ceasefire was declared a few weeks later. Vukovar remained in Serb hands until 1998, when it was peacefully reintegrated into Croatia. It has since been rebuilt but has less than half of its pre-war population and many buildings are still scarred by the battle. Its two principal ethnic communities remain deeply divided and it has not regained its former prosperity.
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Vukovar was heavily damaged during the Croatian War of Independence.
The city suffered heavy damage during the siege and was eventually overrun.
The damage to Vukovar during the siege has been called the worst in Europe since World War II, drawing comparisons with the World War II--era Stalingrad.
The city's water tower, riddled with bullet holes, was retained by city planners to serve as a testimony to the events of the early 1990s.
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Vukovar is a Croatian city. It's name comes from hungarian word ''var'', which means ''city'', and ''vuko'', which is a river named ''Vuka''. At the beginning of the 90' it was attacked by JNA. It was totaly in ruins after fall. It's water tower was badly damaged during everyday shellings, but it remained at one piece. That water tower is a symbol of Croatian resistance. It is not repaired, because it represent struggle for life-even damaged it remains.
Croatia Remembers Vukovar Massacre: Town marks anniversary of Balkan War atrocity
Attendees at the event, which marked the 1991 massacre of Croats at the hands of Serbian and Yugoslavian forces, say the memorial is an 'emotional' affair.
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Vukovar ist eine Stadt im Osten Kroatiens. Sie ist die Hauptstadt der Gespanschaft Vukovar-Syrmien (kroatisch Vukovarsko-srijemska županija) und hatte 2011 bei der Volkszählung 27.683 Einwohner. Die Region um Vukovar an der Grenze zu Serbien war während des Kroatien-Kriegs 1991–1995 das am stärksten umkämpfte Gebiet. Bei der serbischen Belagerung und der Schlacht um Vukovar wurde Vukovar weitgehend zerstört.
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It stems from a law to protect Serb minority rights, but in the Croatian city of Vukovar, the...
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It stems from a law to protect Serb minority rights, but in the Croatian city of Vukovar, the introduction of the Cyrillic alphabet on public signs has reopened the wounds of an old conflict.
Vukovar was virtually destroyed during the wars that erupted after the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1991. Today, it is being rebuilt but remains a symbol of Croatia's fight for independence - a fight better known as the Homeland War. Now, a new kind of symbol is causing an uproar: that of Cyrillic signs erected on public buildings.
A 2011 census has shown that Serbs make up over a third of Vukovar's population. According to Croatia's constitutional law on minority rights, their language and alphabet is protected. The first Cyrillic signs went up in September, but they were torn down just as quickly by Croatian war veterans. Protesters argue that Cyrillic is a reminder of when Vukovar stood alone against a Yugoslav army unhappy with Croatia's declaration of independence. And they paid the price.
A war veteran, Danijel Rehak heads the Association for Croatian Prisoners of War. He took part in the recent protests:
We are against the Serbian language and Cyrillic signs because the aggression on Vukovar in 1991 was committed with those letters. 5,000 of our fellow citizens vanished in that aggression: defenders, civilians, children and the elderly, 401 are still listed as missing, he told euronews.
In August 1991, the Yugoslav army and local Serb milita groups attacked Vukovar after Croatia declared independence. The siege lasted three months and Vukovar was integrated into the Serb Republic of Krajina for the next four years. One of the most horrific stories of this war was the massacre of many patients and staff at Vukovar hospital.
Vesna Bosanac was in charge of the hospital during the siege. She took care of the wounded. Today, this national icon claims that successive Croatian governments have failed to understand the emotional hold Vukovar still has on the nation's soul. She explains: When we came back here after the peace accord in 1997 it was all in Cyrillic. And then the process of peaceful reintegration began and everything that was in Cyrillic was no longer valid. And now, because of the census conducted in 2011, Cyrillic signs have been erected on official buildings again. Cyrillic wouldn't be a problem if people here had healed their wounds, if they had found their dead and missing, but they haven't, and inflicting Cyrillic is like pouring alcohol on an open wound.
Today, the hospital basement is a museum which serves as a reminder of the suffering that took place in Vukovar and how many people felt forgotten and even sacrificed by a government fighting their nationalist wars. Although Croatia is an EU member state, people still argue that Vukovar is being used for political gain.
Meanwhile, the Zagreb government claim the constitutional laws protecting the Cyrillic alphabet were necessary to fall in line with EU legislation on minority rights.
Fred Matic, Croatian Minister of War Veterans, told euronews a key ingredient is still missing for a lasting peace:
The Serbs have not undergone the catharsis of accepting what happened with the former Yugoslav People's Army, with Serbia and Montenegro who committed aggression against Croatia. They simply still haven't come to terms with it. There is also a partial responsibility on the shoulders of Croatia, but Croats won't take responsibility until Serbs take the blame for what they did from the beginning, he said.
Many in Vukovar are not ready to accept responsibility for the past and move forward together. The time is not ripe for this healing. These feelings run deep into the heart of Vukovar's school system. Croatian and Serb children arrive at school together. Then they go their separate ways: Croatians into one class and Serbs into another.
Serb students learn both Latin and Cyrillic alphabets. They also learn Serbian history as part of the peace accord to help Serbs keep their national identity. Zeljko Kovacevic, the school's principal, is an ethnic Serb. He lived in Vukovar throughout the siege and is well-respected by both communities. He told euronews that it's the adults who block integration, not the children:
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