Daruvar

Daruvar
coat of arms
Coordinates: 45 ° 35 ′ 24 ″  N , 17 ° 13 ′ 17 ″  E
Basic data
State :	Croatia
County :	Bjelovar-Bilogora
Height :	161  m. i. J.
Area :	64  km²
Residents :	11,633 (2011)
Population density :	182 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code :	(+385) 043
Postal code :	43 500
License plate :	THERE
Structure and administration (status: 2013, cf. )
Community type :	city
Mayor :	Dalibor Rohlik ( SDP )
Website :	www.daruvar.hr
Daruvar

Memorial to the fallen defenders of Daruvar 1991–1995

Daruvar Castle

Park of the Daruvarske Toplice thermal baths

Daruvar ( Hungarian Daruvár , German  Daruwar , Latin Aqua Balissae ) is a city in the Croatian Slavonia . With the incorporated villages of Daruvar Vineyards, Doljani , Donji Daruvar, Gornji Daruvar, Lipovac Majur , Ljudevit Selo , Markovac and Vrbovac , the population is 11,633, the core town itself has 8,567 inhabitants. The area is 64 km².

history

The small town has only had its current name since 1771.

Daruvar is located in an area with a long history of settlement. According to archaeological findings, the valley in which the town and thermal baths are located was settled in the Stone Age.

Greek and Roman writers wrote about the Pano-Celtic tribes who inhabited these areas and called them Jazi ( Iassioi or Iassi ), which means "healers". When the Romans invaded Pannonia, the Jazygen were allies of the emperor Augustus .

1837, the city was founded by Emperor Ferdinand I to Freistadt explained. In 1895 the place is described as a market and health resort in the Croatian-Slavonian Požega county , on the Barcs – Pakrácz railway line, with three churches, a castle, district court, marble quarries and (1890) 1,663 inhabitants. The thermal bath, now called Daruvarske toplice , had five springs (42–46 ° C) , which were already known as Thermae Jasornenses in Roman times .

Demographic statistics

• Number of births in 2004: 86
• Nationalities (2011 census): Czech and Serbian minorities live with the Croatians in and around the city.
  • Croatians : 7,129 - 61.28%
  • Czechs : 2,485 - 21.36%
  • Serbs : 1,429 - 12.28%
  • Others: 590 - 5.07%

geography

• Average annual temperature: 11.3 ° C
• Average annual precipitation: 640.6 mm
• Average temperature of the warm spring: 39.2 ° to 47.5 ° C

• Distance to the capital Zagreb : 130 km
• Distance to Osijek : 140 km
• Distance to the Adriatic coast: 300 km

Personalities

• David Frankfurter (1909–1982), made famous through the assassination attempt on Wilhelm Gustloff
• Milivoj Ašner (1913–2011), former police chief of the Ustasha regime and suspected war criminal

literature

• Wilhelm Tomaschek : Aqua, Aquae 18 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 296 f.

Web links

• City website (Croatian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vár (Hungarian) = castle
2. ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 5th edition, 4th volume, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1895, p. 615