Vučnik is a village in
Croatia
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, under the
Vrbovsko
Vrbovsko ( sr-Cyrl, Врбовско) is a town in western Croatia, situated at the far east of the mountainous region of Gorski Kotar in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County; on its 280 square kilometers area, Vrbovsko features 60 settlements and a t ...
township, in
Primorje-Gorski Kotar County
Primorje – Gorski Kotar County (, ) is a Counties of Croatia, county in western Croatia, most of it based in the historical and cultural region called Croatia proper and some of it in Istria, including the Bay of Kvarner, the surrounding Northe ...
.
History
In 1860–1879,
Matija Mažuranić
Matija Mažuranić (1817–April 17, 1881) was a Croatian writer best known for his travelogues. He was the brother of more renowned Ivan, the writer of the well-known epic '' Smrt Smail-age Čengića''.
He was born in Novi Vinodolski and atte ...
wrote a 62 folio manuscript today titled Writings on the Building of Roads in Gorski Kotar and Lika (), today with signature
HR-
Za NSK R 6424. A 21 folio manuscript dated 1872 titled Darstellung der Entstehung des Baues ... der Luisenstrasse togethr with a translation by I. Mikloušić is kept as
HR-
Za NSK R 4572.
In 1864, a
rinderpest
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outbreak in
Bosanci and
Kasuni caused the
Lujzijana
The Louisiana road () is a roadway in Croatia, built between 1803 and 1812 by an association of noble families ( Lichtenstein, Dietrichstein, Esterházy, Harrach, Batthyány, Anna Maria Erdődy) and designed by Josef Philipp Vukassovich. The ...
to be closed to horned traffic for 21 days in December.
Construction on the
Črnomelj-Vrbovsko railway begun in 1939, but by 1940 it had come to a halt thanks to a worker dispute. Thanks to the outbreak of
WWI
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, it was never finished.
On 19 June 1942, a group of 50 Partisans set up a blockade on the road in Vučnik, stopping traffic between Karlovac and Vrbovsko.
Vučnik was hit by the
2014 Dinaric ice storm
The 2014 Dinaric ice storm, better known as the 2014 Slovenia ice storm or 2014 Croatia ice storm, was a severe ice storm ( SPIA 5) that struck the Northwest Dinaric Alps between 31 January and 2 February 2014. The freezing rain led to glazing of ...
.
Demographics
Politics
As of its foundation on 3 March 2008, it belongs to the of
Lukovdol.
Infrastructure
The water storage unit in
Nadvučnik, with a capacity of at an elevation of ,
is also responsible for
Lukovdol,
Podvučnik, Vučnik,
Gorenci and part of
Draga Lukovdolska.
References
Bibliography
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Populated places in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County
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