EXPERTS ASSESSING DAMAGE CAUSED TO CULTURAL MONUMENTS IN DANUBE AREA

AREA $ VUKOVAR, Oct 2 (Hina) - Croatia's special commission for estimating how much cultural monuments are damaged, on Thursday began assessing the damage caused in the Danube river area during the Homeland War. Two three-member teams of the commission will work in Vukovar, and the other two teams will be in Baranja. By Monday damage at 26 buildings in Vukovar, which have donators or need to be urgently renovated, will be assessed. Some of these buildings are the Franciscan monastery and church of St. Philip and Jacob, the Serb Orthodox church of St. Nicholas. Eltz Castle, the palace of the Sirmium county, the house where a Nobel-prize-winner, Lavoslav Ruzicka, was born, the building where the Bauer art collection was housed, and so on. According to figures of the Croatian culture ministry commission, there are more than 130 cultural monuments in Vukovar, and more than 30 in the Baranja area. (hina) jn mš 021735 MET oct 97