Drežnik Grad is a
village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
in
Croatia
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...
. It is connected by the
D1 highway.
History
The castle of Drežnik was built in the 13th century.
The castle came under the authority of the
Military Frontier
The Military Frontier (; sh-Cyrl-Latn, Војна крајина, Vojna krajina, sh-Cyrl-Latn, Војна граница, Vojna granica, label=none; ; ) was a borderland of the Habsburg monarchy and later the Austrian and Austro-Hungari ...
, but it was abandoned by them in the 18th century.
WWII
1941
In 1941, Marko Brajdić was designated as its
Ustaša ''zbirnik''.
On April 12 1941, its mayor Zvonko Pavlić was replaced by the Ustaše with Jure Krizmanić.
At the end of June, the parish priest of Drežnik, Dragutin Štimac, conducted
conversions to Catholicism for the Serbian population of the
Bihać
Bihać is a city and the administrative centre of Una-Sana Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated on the banks of river Una (Sava), Una in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in th ...
kotar, only for the local Ustaše to detain them in Bihać, being released only upon the intervention of the parish priest of Bihać. By that time, not a single
Serbian Orthodox
The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
The majority of the populat ...
priest remained on the territory of Drežnik Grad, having obtained permission to leave for the
GMS. So, the president of the kotar Eduard Lenčerić confiscated all parish registries.
The Italian Army left Rakovica and Drežnik Grad for
Ogulin
Ogulin () is a town in central Croatia, in Karlovac County. It has a population of 7,389 (2021) (it was 8,216 in 2011), and a total municipal population of 12,251 (2021). Ogulin is known for its historic stone castle, known as Kula, and the nearby ...
, where the NDH had set up the administrative capital of the new
županija
A ''županija'' (singular; plural ''županije'') is a Croatian term for administrative subdivisions.
The etymology is the South Slavic term '' Župa'', which means parish in Croatian. The similar Slovene term župnija is used to mean that.
Th ...
of Modruš, on 12 July 1941.
On 15 August 1941, a letter was written on behalf of 91 families to the ''poglavnik'' requesting to be allowed to convert to Catholicism and be treated like Croats:
1942
On 28–30 June 1942 around
Sadilovac and Dubrave, a battle took place between a group of about 1000 Partisans and 110 Croatian
Domobrani
Home guard is a title given to various military organizations at various times, with the implication of an emergency or reserve force raised for local defense.
The term "home guard" was first officially used in the American Civil War, starting wi ...
, in which about 150 Partisans died and 80 were wounded, while only 1 Domobran was killed.
Demographics
In 1895, the ''obćina'' of Drežnik (court at Drežnik), with an area of , belonged to the ''kotar'' of Slunj (Slunj court and
electoral district
An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...
) in the ''županija'' of Modruš-Rieka (
Ogulin
Ogulin () is a town in central Croatia, in Karlovac County. It has a population of 7,389 (2021) (it was 8,216 in 2011), and a total municipal population of 12,251 (2021). Ogulin is known for its historic stone castle, known as Kula, and the nearby ...
court and financial board). There were 790 houses, with a population of 4998 (the lowest in Slunj kotar). Its 7 villages and 14 hamlets were divided for taxation purposes into 3 ''porezne obćine'', under the Slunj office.
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Populated places in Karlovac County
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