Promotion of the book Family Hutterott: Legacy, part 1
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After four years of patient and systematic work, the book titled «Family Hutterott: Legacy», was presented on the island of Saint Andrew near Rovinj.
This book about a family, former owners of a hundred hectares of land along the coastline and on the islands, was published by the National Archive in Pazin and the Native Land Museum of the City of Rovinj, and its authors are Danijela Doblanović, Nelo Grbac, Katarina Marić, Gordana Milaković and Tatjana Ujčić, who is also the editor of this worthy publication. An additional and symbolic value of this book comes from a fact that it was published on the centennial anniversary of Rovinj's first tourism development plan written by Baron Georg Hutterott himself.
Even though the citizens of Rovinj know a lot about the baron and his family who owned the island of St. Andrew from 1890 till 1945, and other island and mainland estates amongst which is today’s Golden Cape, this book discloses a bundle of information linked to their legacy, that is «the part of the hidden past bound by locks that should be carefully picked, mostly due to the tragic destiny of two family members, Marie and her daughter Barbara, who disappeared sometime shortly after World War II», is written, amongst other things, by Tatjana Ujčić in the book's prologue.
She also emphasized that the book represents only the first phase of the Hutterott project, which comprises of publishing a list of constructed real estate that was in the family's possession, as well as the their legacy that is safeguarded in the National Archive in Pazin and Rovinj's Native Land Museum. The second phase will include the publication of items from their legacy that are kept in other institutions and abroad with clear intentions of prompting private collectors and accidental finders to register their items and thus contribute to the comprehensive insight into the family legacy. In the final and third phase a monograph will be published, which will contain the most important legacy in the wider context of the respective time period – from fashion, business trends, to the life of the citizens of Rovinj and Istria in that era.
The book itself is comprised of 408 pages and a prologue which contains elementary notes on the lives of family members and texts commemorating the fate of the legacy from 1945 till the present. Its central component encompasses a list of real estate and today’s condition of the buildings, an analytical inventory of the archive fund and an archive catalogue from the Native Land Museum of Rovinj.
At the gala promotion of the book, that attracted numerous curators, scientists and citizens of Rovinj, many guests held speeches, among which the Vice Prefect of Istria County Valerio Drandić who emphasized that Rovinj is very lucky to be chosen by the Hutterott family for their new residence. Along with the book presentation, two maps of the Golden Cape and original brochures «Cap Aureo» were displayed at the nearby castle of Bn. Hutterott.
With them also a book of guests who visited the castle, which clearly depicts that the island was an exclusive tourist destination of the European aristocracy even back then. A whiff of history, through clothes and footwear of the late 19th and early 20th century, was shown by the «Maistini» animators. The edition of the book «Family Hutterott: Legacy», published in 500 copies, was aided by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and Istria County.
