Finding out the location	very easy
Access	easy
Safety	safe
Risk of being seen	low
General condition of the place	good
Traces of vandalism	few
Good place for taking pictures?	very good
Did you see other people?	few

Visit date   July 15 2023 at 7 hr
Visit duration   3 hours

This is a memorial dedicated to the victims of World War II, created in a brutalist, postmodern style of stainless steel. On top of a mountain, the building stands forgotten and broken. In front of it are withered flowers on a stone altar. The building was completed in the early 1980s. Only ten years later, the monument was destroyed by the new war and the site became a foreign military headquarters.



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Finding out the location	very easy
Access	very easy
Safety	very safe
Risk of being seen	very low
General condition of the place	bad
Traces of vandalism	many
Good place for taking pictures?	very good
Did you see other people?	very many

Visit date   September 11 2021 at 11 hr
Visit duration   2 hours


Das Denkmal erinnert an den Aufstand und die Widerstandsbewegung der Bewohner von Kordun und Banija gegen den nationalsozialistischen Faschismus sowie an dessen zivile Opfer und die gefallenen Widerstandskämpfer.

Die ersten Einheiten der jugoslawischen Partisanen in der Gegend von Kordun und Banja wurden im Frühsommer 1941 aufgestellt. In diesen kämpften ethnische Serben und Kroaten gemeinsam gegen die faschistischen Besatzer. Die Region um Petrova Gora spielte im Befreiungskampf der Partisanen eine wichtige Rolle. Hier gründete sich das kroatische Hauptquartier der Volksbefreiungsarmee, hier befand sich während des Krieges ein großes Lazarett (diese Bilder gibt es in einem anderen Album) der Partisanen und im Jahr 1944 fand in Topusko die dritte Sitzung des Antifaschistischen Landesrates der Volksbefreiung Kroatiens (ZAVNOH) statt.

1970 wurde der Wettbewerb zum Bau des Denkmals abgeschlossen. Der Bau dauerte über ein Jahrzehnt und wurde am 04.07.1982 eingeweiht. Allerdings war nur die Fassade fertiggestellt, da die Innenräume aufgrund der politischen Instabilität nach Titos Tod nicht mehr vollendet wurden.
Das Denkmal ist eine Stahlbetonkonstruktion die mit Edelstahlplatten verkleidet wurde.

Nach Kriegsende 1995 wurde das Denkmal vernachlässigt und war dem Verfall und Vandalismus preisgegeben. Besonders das wertvolle Edelmetall wurde abmontiert und gestohlen. Auch heute noch kommt es immer wieder zu Diebstählen der Metallplatten. Weiterhin wurde einem Telekommunikationsanbieter die Genehmigung erteilt, auf dem Gebäude einen Sendemast zu errichten.
Seit 2013 gibt es die Aktion „Petrova Gora: yesterday, tomorrow, how to think Petrova Gora“.
Um das Denkmal zu Restaurieren werden, Schätzungen zu Folge, auf mehrere 10 Millionen Euro benötigt.


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Finding out the location	hard
Access	easy
Safety	very safe
Risk of being seen	high
General condition of the place	good
Traces of vandalism	few
Good place for taking pictures?	good
Did you see other people?	few

Visit date   August 5 2020 at 13 hr
Visit duration   1 hour

petrova gora

A few months ago, we travelled to Croatia. While we were searching for nice locations in Croatia we bumped into a building called petrova gora. We did not know what for building it used to be, but we immediately knew we would visit it. So we did our research and we thought we knew where it was. So we drove to this location and bumped into a forbidden way. On our right there was another blocked way. Next to the way were we drove, there was a little hostel where you could eat something right in front of te hostel there was a policecar. We decide to move forward trough the forbidden way and hoped we would find the location of the petrova gora.

We drove and drove but we could not reach the location where maps was sending us. So we decided to give up, we parked our car and we just went for a walk. We didn't take two steps and we saw the building appeared behind the big fog cloud. We were amesed that we didn't see this big big building, while it was right in front of us.
We walked around the building but all doors were closed. There also was a fence over the zero and first floor to keep unespected visitors outside. But that fence made it easy to climb to the second floor where the building was open.

We noticed a camera but we choose to take the climb. After an half hour we heard something. It was like a kind of metal hit the fence... Boom.. Boom.. Boom.. We dicede to leave the building and when we reached our car , we saw a militair man and a police car with open doors parked in the front of the building we just came out. We did like we were just accidental passenger and drove away.

The building is really impressive, inside it has a beautiful stair but it's very empty. It's a very high building so i am sure the vieuw from the top would be amazing but we didn't see a thing because of all the fog. We would go back with our friends to use it as a awesome paintball location ;)

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