Stari Han, former caravanserai in Kremna, Užice, Serbia
Stari Han is a former caravanserai in the village of Kremna, on a sloping site. Its rectangular base has a stone warehouse in the lower half of the ground floor, while the upper floor, built in timber-frame with infill, held guest rooms. Opposite the entrance, a projecting bay (ćošak or čardak) faces the road, and the hipped roof is covered with wooden shingles and tall chimneys.
Stari Han was established in the first two decades of the 19th century, though its exact construction date is not reliably known. It came into the possession of the Moljković family, who had moved from Herzegovina, in the mid-19th century. The building stood on the Užice–Višegrad road, then one of the two main links between Serbia and Bosnia. Conservation work was carried out in 1978.
The han is one of the few examples in Serbia of a house of the Herzegovinian type, brought by the Moljković family who moved from Herzegovina. The family also built the Moljković fountain nearby. The building's layout, with rooms for travellers above and a stone warehouse below, shows how a roadside inn on the Užice–Višegrad route functioned.
Stari Han stands in the village of Kremna, on the Užice municipality side of the Šargan massif between Zlatibor and Tara, not in Užice itself. The building sits on sloping ground, with the stone warehouse in the lower half of the ground floor and the timber-framed guest rooms above. Conservation work carried out in 1978 kept its original form.
The upper floor was built in a timber-frame system with infill of chatma, while a stone warehouse sits beneath the lower half of the ground floor. The building is known as one of the few examples of a Herzegovinian-type house in Serbia, and its four-sided shingle roof is marked by tall chimneys.
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