Križevci

Coordinates: 46°01′33″N 16°32′33″E / 46.02583°N 16.54250°E / 46.02583; 16.54250
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Križevci
Town
Grad Križevci
Town of Križevci
Križevci
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Location of Križevci in Croatia
Križevci is located in Croatia
Križevci
Križevci
Coordinates: 46°01′33″N 16°32′33″E / 46.02583°N 16.54250°E / 46.02583; 16.54250
Country Croatia
County Koprivnica-Križevci
Government
 • MayorMario Rajn (Ind.)
Area
[1]
 • Town264.2 km2 (102.0 sq mi)
 • Urban
32.0 km2 (12.4 sq mi)
Elevation
140 m (460 ft)
Population
 (2021)[2]
 • Town18,949
 • Density72/km2 (190/sq mi)
 • Urban
10,522
 • Urban density330/km2 (850/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
48260
Area code048
Vehicle registrationKŽ
Websitekrizevci.hr

Križevci (Croatian: [krǐːʒeːʋtsi]; Latin: Crisium; Hungarian: Kőrös [ˈkøːrøʃ]; German: Kreutz [kʁɔʏts] ⓘ) is a town in northern Croatia with a total population of 21,122 and with 11,231 in the town itself (2011),[3] It is the oldest town in its county, the Koprivnica-Križevci County.

History[edit]

View of Križevci from air
Saint Anne's Church

The first mention of the so-called Upper Križevac was from 1193 by Béla III, obtaining the status of Royal Borough[4] in 1252 by the ban Stephan which was confirmed by King Béla IV a year later. The so-called Lower Križevac developed somewhat slower than its twin town: it became a free royal town in 1405, thanks to king Sigismund.

Bloody Sabor of Križevci (Croatian: Krvavi Sabor u Križevcima) was organised killing of the Croatian ban Stjepan Lacković and his followers by king Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, on 27 February 1397.[5]

Križevac was the birthplace of a Catholic priest Marko who died at the hand of Calvinists in Košice in 1619, and was subsequently canonized because of his martyrdom. This event is commemorated every September 7 in Križevci.

After centuries of division, empress Maria Theresa of Austria united the Lower and Upper Križevac into Križevci in 1752 (the word Križevci is plural of Križevac). The town was also hit by the wars with the Turks, but it regained importance in 1871 when the railway was built through it on the way from Budapest to Rijeka.

In the late 19th century and early 20th century, Križevci was a district capital in the Bjelovar-Križevci County of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

These days the town is pretty much oriented towards mass entrepreneurship, but it still enjoys the greatest number of valuable and oldest monuments in the county (both in the town and its surroundings).

Križevci has nine churches (seven Catholic, a Serbian Orthodox and a Greek Catholic), some of them built in the Middle Ages. In the oldest Gothic Church of Saint Cross in Križevci, there are important Baroque pictures and a marble altar dating from the 18th century (by Francesco Robba). Also interesting is the parish church of St. Anne from the 17th century.

Of particular note is the Greek Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, the seat of the Eparchy of Križevci since 1789. The cathedral building was worked on by some of Zagreb's finest architects: its facade was rebuilt by Bartol Felbinger in 1817 while an internal reconstruction was performed in the Gothic revival style by Hermann Bolle in 1892-97. The iconostasis and the pictures on the walls are works of famous Croatian painters including Ivan Tišov, Celestin Medović and Bela Čikoš-Sesija.

Križevci Synagogue was built in 1895. After renovation in 2014 it mainly serves as Tourist Information Centre. The town museum exhibits a rich archeological, ethnographic and cultural-historical collection.

The main town manifestation is called Križevačko veliko spravišče, commemorated yearly, when the local cultural traditions are displayed during a fiesta that lasts throughout the first full weekend of July. According to legend, this feast originates from a 14th-century feast of reconciliation between the previously hostile communities of merchants from the towns of Križevac and the nobility from the nearby Kalnik hillside.

Geography[edit]

Križevci is a town in Koprivnica-Križevci County. Because of its nearness to Zagreb (57 km), Križevci is developing like a satellite town. It has a good position because it's close to all regional centers: Koprivnica (31 km), Bjelovar (33 km) and Varaždin (48 km). Very important fact for establishing the town was its macro traffical position. This place was known already in antics and Middle Ages because that was where the main caravan roads crossed, and there was a famous king's Coloman road that was going through Križevci. That road was connecting Pannonia and Dalmatia. In its closer past, many roads and other types of traffic connections were built: Many macadamized roads that connects Posavina, region around Kalnik and Podravina (there were all already finished in the 18th century), the railroad from Hungary to Zagreb, that goes through Koprivnica and Križevci (1870.), and to Bjelovar (1894). Today, town is still important because it connects Bjelovar and Koprivnica, big regional centers, and because it's the place where many regional roads starts from direction of Bjelovar, Gornja Rijeka and Sudovec, valley of the river Bednja, zelinsko prigorje over Čanjevo and from Rasinja over Apatovec. Križevci lies on 140 m above the level of the sea, where the southern part of Kalnik begins.

Topographically, it lies on Pleistocene surface, between swamped alluvial valleys of the brook Vrtlin from the east and the brook Koruska from the west. Relief, geological-petrografical structure, convenient climate and abundance of water, all these were elements of economical and demographic development of the town. Modern demographic-economical transformation has changed relations in space and structure of population, and it is observable through processes of deagrarianization, industrialization and deruralization. This effected with abandoning agricultural production, abandoning villages and moving to Križevci.

Climate[edit]

Climate data for Križevci, Croatia (1971–2000, extremes 1961–2014)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 16.8
(62.2) 		21.7
(71.1) 		25.2
(77.4) 		29.6
(85.3) 		32.7
(90.9) 		35.1
(95.2) 		37.6
(99.7) 		38.5
(101.3) 		33.5
(92.3) 		27.9
(82.2) 		23.9
(75.0) 		21.6
(70.9) 		38.5
(101.3)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 2.9
(37.2) 		6.0
(42.8) 		11.2
(52.2) 		15.7
(60.3) 		20.8
(69.4) 		23.8
(74.8) 		25.9
(78.6) 		25.7
(78.3) 		21.5
(70.7) 		15.4
(59.7) 		8.3
(46.9) 		3.9
(39.0) 		15.1
(59.2)
Daily mean °C (°F) −0.3
(31.5) 		1.7
(35.1) 		6.0
(42.8) 		10.2
(50.4) 		15.0
(59.0) 		18.1
(64.6) 		19.9
(67.8) 		19.2
(66.6) 		15.1
(59.2) 		9.8
(49.6) 		4.4
(39.9) 		0.8
(33.4) 		10.0
(50.0)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −3.6
(25.5) 		−2.5
(27.5) 		0.9
(33.6) 		4.5
(40.1) 		9.0
(48.2) 		12.3
(54.1) 		13.8
(56.8) 		13.4
(56.1) 		9.8
(49.6) 		5.2
(41.4) 		0.8
(33.4) 		−2.3
(27.9) 		5.1
(41.2)
Record low °C (°F) −25.5
(−13.9) 		−22.6
(−8.7) 		−18.7
(−1.7) 		−5
(23) 		−3
(27) 		0.5
(32.9) 		4.0
(39.2) 		2.4
(36.3) 		−2.0
(28.4) 		−7
(19) 		−17.2
(1.0) 		−21
(−6) 		−25.5
(−13.9)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 39.1
(1.54) 		40.1
(1.58) 		46.3
(1.82) 		57.5
(2.26) 		75.2
(2.96) 		90.4
(3.56) 		76.0
(2.99) 		70.5
(2.78) 		75.5
(2.97) 		75.5
(2.97) 		79.0
(3.11) 		60.9
(2.40) 		785.9
(30.94)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 9.0 8.6 9.9 12.2 12.2 13.3 10.6 9.8 10.4 11.0 11.2 10.6 128.9
Average snowy days (≥ 1.0 cm) 11.2 8.9 2.7 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 7.1 33.0
Average relative humidity (%) 84.7 78.4 72.0 69.6 71.9 73.5 73.8 76.7 81.3 83.9 85.8 87.0 78.2
Mean monthly sunshine hours 58.9 101.7 142.6 171.0 232.5 237.0 282.1 260.4 192.0 127.1 66.0 49.6 1,920.9
Percent possible sunshine 24 39 43 46 54 55 64 64 56 44 30 25 48
Source: Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service[6][7]

Demographics[edit]

According to the 2011 census, Croats form an absolute majority at 96.6% with Serbs making up for 2.1% of the population.[8]

The list of settlements in the administrative area of Križevci is:[3]

City of Križevci: Population trends 1857–2021
population
12438
12769
13752
15798
17709
19108
18319
19230
19729
20575
21793
22534
22772
22676
22324
21122
18949
18571869188018901900191019211931194819531961197119811991200120112021
Sources: Croatian Bureau of Statistics publications

Education[edit]

Križevci is home to the Križevci College of Agriculture,[9] founded in 1860 as the Royal Agriculture and Forestry College.[10]

Culture[edit]

Križevci is home to a monument to the 37 people from the town who died in the Croatian War of Independence entitled the Mother of the Dead Hero.[11]

Notable people[edit]

See also: Category:People from Križevci

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata Q119585703.
  2. ^ "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2021 Census". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2011 Census: Križevci". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
  4. ^ Križevci.eu - history / golden bull
  5. ^ Križevci Bloody Assembly Archived 2014-03-17 at the Wayback Machine krizevci.eu
  6. ^ "Križevci Climate Normals" (PDF). Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  7. ^ "Mjesečne vrijednosti za Križevci u razdoblju1961−2014" (in Croatian). Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  8. ^ "Population by Ethnicity, by Towns/Municipalities, 2011 Census: County of Koprivnica-Križevci". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
  9. ^ Križevci College of Agriculture Križevci. Accessed: April 13, 2013.
  10. ^ Husinec, Renata, and Dejan Marenčić. n.d. "Križevci College of Agriculture." Archived December 29, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Accessed: April 13, 2013.
  11. ^ Otkrivena 'Majka poginulog junaka'
  12. ^ Belani, Hrvoje (21 February 2018). "Antonio Radić: 'Svojim YouTube kanalom mogu svakoga zainteresirati za šah'" (in Croatian). Retrieved 17 November 2019.

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