Trebevic

Trebević / Требевић
	The Trebević seen from Sarajevo
height	1629 m. i. J.
location	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mountains	Jahorina
Coordinates	43 ° 49 '24 " N , 18 ° 26' 56" E Coordinates: 43 ° 49 '24 " N , 18 ° 26' 56" E

The Trebevic ( Serbian - Cyrillic Требевић ) is a mountain on the southern outskirts of Sarajevo in central Bosnia and Herzegovina . It forms the north-western end of the Jahorina mountain range and rises to 1629 m . The mountain overlooks the entire urban area of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian capital. Its peak is on the territory of the Istočni Stari Grad Association in the Republika Srpska .

The Sarajevo bobsleigh and toboggan run, built for the 1984 Winter Olympics , as well as the ruins of the Bistrik kula observatory and other remains of former Austro-Hungarian fortifications, including the three fortresses Zlatište, Palež and Dragiljac, are located on the mountain slope. The Trebević cable car (Trebevićka žičara) , which reopened in 2018, leads to the starting point of the bobsled run . There is a television tower near the summit, but it is not open to the public.

Winter sports tourism is slowly picking up again after some ski slopes have reopened, but so far it has mainly attracted domestic visitors. Even before the war, the mountain was a popular local recreation area for the Sarajevans. After 2012, several restaurants, accommodation and the Brus leisure center were opened on the mountain slopes, resuming this tradition.

history

In the Bosnian War , which broke out eight years after the Games, the armed forces of the Republika Srpska used the slopes of Trebević for their artillery positions during the siege of Sarajevo . The strategically important positions were hotly contested and almost the entire northern slope was mined. By 2011 most of the minefields had been cleared. The Kazani massacre was carried out on the mountain slopes by members of the Bosnian government troops . Numerous Serb civilians were murdered between 1992 and 1993 and some were thrown into the Kazani shaft cave .

In March 2008, plans by a Serbian war veterans association to erect a 26 m high concrete cross on the slope of the Trebević on the Zlatište hill, which belongs to the Republika Srpska, sparked outrage in Sarajevo, as the hill had been used as a Serbian position during the siege of Sarajevo. The mayor of the capital and the high representative Miroslav Lajčák spoke out strongly against the erection of a religious symbol at this point. In September 2014, a temporary cross about ten meters high was erected, but it was destroyed by strangers shortly afterwards.