2012Cultural Heritage - Houses Osacanke - Set

Most original form of Serbian folk architecture in our country is without a doubt, log cabin osacanka. Between dinar wooden houses, as appointed by individual researchers, ethnologists and historians of architecture and chalets osacanke can be set equal sign. The most recognizable form osacanke still encountered in Sumadiji, central and western parts of Serbia, eastern Bosnia and the Drina Basin. However, it is likely that this type of structure present in Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia, and elsewhere in the Balkans. This form carries almost typed with the right name of the Serbian builders from Osato who have successfully adapted the archaic form old wooden houses, new conditions, new ethnic groups living needs of our region. B. Kojic, believed that the developed type osacanke appeared after 1820th and that the osacanka is the representative, of an entire architecture in wood. "