Statistik

174 monuments mapped across 7 successor states — patterns in geography, decade, condition, and preservation risk.

Auf einen Blick

Headline counts drawn from the full dataset.

174

Erfasste Denkmäler

7

Countries

86

Named architects

1960s

Peak decade (46 sites)

44

Poor, abandoned, or destroyed

70%

With known build year

Wichtige Erkenntnisse

Each insight is paired with the data behind it — verify the numbers in the charts.

01

A mid-century building boom

46 in the 1960s · 41 in the 1970s

Most dated monuments cluster in the 1960s and 1970s — the peak of Yugoslav memorial construction after WWII. Together these two decades account for 87 of 121 sites with known years.

By construction decade

Sites with a known build year, grouped by decade

1940er 5 1950er 11 1960er 46 1970er 41 1980er 18 Unbekannt 53
02

One architect dominates the canon

19 sites · Bogdan Bogdanović

Bogdan Bogdanović appears on 19 monuments — more than any other named architect. 86 distinct architects are represented across the dataset, but 58 sites still lack a verified architect.

Top architects

  1. 01
    Unbekannt 58 (33%)
  2. 02
    Bogdan Bogdanović 19 (11%)
  3. 03
    Miodrag Živković 7 (4%)
  4. 04
    Vojin Bakić 5 (3%)
  5. 05
    Dušan Džamonja 4 (2%)
  6. 06
    Jordan Grabuloski 3 (2%)
  7. 07
    Ljubomir Denković 3 (2%)
  8. 08
    Antun Augustinčić 2 (1%)
  9. 09
    Boris Kobe 2 (1%)
  10. 10
    Edvard Ravnikar 2 (1%)
  11. 11
    Janez Lenassi 2 (1%)
  12. 12
    Lojze Dolinar 2 (1%)
03

Preservation is uneven across borders

56% at risk · Kosovo

Kosovo has the highest share of monuments in poor, abandoned, or destroyed condition (56% of its 9 sites). Slovenia shows no sites in those categories.

At-risk sites by country

Share of each country's monuments rated Poor, Abandoned, or Destroyed

Land At risk Anteil
Kosovo 5 56%
Bosnia & Herzegovina 17 47%
North Macedonia 4 31%
Serbia 9 24%
Croatia 7 16%
Montenegro 2 11%
Slovenia 0 0%

By country

Land Distribution Anzahl Anteil
Croatia
44 25%
Serbia
38 22%
Bosnia & Herzegovina
36 21%
Montenegro
19 11%
Slovenia
15 9%
North Macedonia
13 7%
Kosovo
9 5%
04

A third of sites lack verified condition

17% unverified condition

29 monuments (17%) are marked Unverified — largely from the supplementary "overlooked" research pass. Only 11 sites are rated Excellent.

05

War-era destruction is documented but sparse

11 with destruction records

11 monuments have recorded destruction events — mostly from the 1990s Yugoslav wars. Detailed perpetrator and year data exists for only a subset; many destroyed sites rely on condition assessment alone.

By condition

174 gesamt
  • Ausgezeichnet 11 · 6%
  • Gut 30 · 17%
  • Befriedigend 59 · 34%
  • Schlecht 21 · 12%
  • Verlassen 12 · 7%
  • Zerstört 11 · 6%
  • Unverifiziert 29 · 17%
  • Mehrfach 1 · 1%
06

Research confidence is still developing

49% low confidence

85 sites (49%) carry Low research confidence. High-confidence records remain rare (12 sites), reflecting the ongoing nature of this community research project.

Research confidence

Hoch 12 7% of dataset
Mittel 74 43% of dataset
Niedrig 85 49% of dataset
Low-Medium 3 2% of dataset

Physischer Kontext

Monument scale and surroundings — dimensions that sit alongside the findings above.

By size

  • Sehr groß 10 · 6%
  • Groß 19 · 11%
  • Mittel 65 · 37%
  • Klein 49 · 28%
  • Unverifiziert 25 · 14%
  • Mehrfach 6 · 3%

Umgebung

Unverifiziert 26 (15%)
Urban 84 (48%)
Ländlich & Dorf 15 (9%)
Berge & Hügel 19 (11%)
Wald & Park 17 (10%)
Offene Landschaft 13 (7%)