The Old Town Jezerski, just like numerous other centennial towns in BiH, did not resist time, so it suffered multiple damage. The last damage noticed, the one on the rampart wall, was the highest priority for rehabilitation.
In accordance with that, the Municipality of Bosanska Krupa decided to reconstruct the rampart wall and obtained support from the Ministry of Construction, Physical Planning and Environmental Protection of the Una-Sana Canton.
Funds amounting to 26.857.35 BAM were provided from the municipal and cantonal budgets.
“Such projects are usually financed from ecological reimbursements which we proportionally assign to all municipalities in the canton, including Bosanska Krupa. We agreed that we will continue works for around 40.000 BAM, so that the town could get its real shape and be put into function for tourism,” said the Minister of Construction, Physical Planning and Environmental Protection of the Una-Sana Canton Tahir Nuhić.
The Old Town Jezerski is situated around four kilometers west from Bosanska Otoka. In 2003, it was declared a national monument of great historical importance for Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Commission for Preservation of Historical Heritage.
In terms of architecture, this town is a very interesting representative of a special kind of old towns out of which more perfect fortresses developed later on. In the center of Jezerski there was a high tower with 1.8 meters thick walls and the entrance raised four meters above the ground. The tower was encircled with a 7 meters high wall in the shape of a rectangle, 16 meters long and 12 meters wide.
The town was built before the invention of firearms and it is also mentioned by the name Castrum Hiesera.
(Source: klix.ba/photo: reprezent.ba)