Grohote
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 Croatia
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 Split-Dalmatia
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| Island : | Šolta | ||
| Height : | 107 m. i. J. | ||
| Residents : | 441 (2011) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+385) 021 | ||
| Postal code : | 21430 Grohote | ||
| License plate : | ST | ||
| Structure and administration (as of 2017) |
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| Community type : | Village | ||
| Mayor : | Nikola Cecić-Karuzić (candidate Grupe Birača) | ||
| Postal address : | Podkuća 8 Grohote |
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Grohote (Italian Villa Grohote ) is the inland capital of the island of Šolta in the Croatian county of Split-Dalmatia . It has 441 inhabitants.
geography
The village is connected to the mainland by a car ferry or catamaran ferry to Split , which dock in Rogač, three kilometers away . Grohote is in the center of the island on the D111 state road, at a point where the major roads intersect. An old road leads to the neighboring village of Srednje Selo and from there to Donje Selo . Sridnje polje is a field southeast of the village.
economy
Grohote is the economic center of Šolta. It is the seat of the administration and the school location. There is a farmer's market, two supermarkets, a pharmacy, post office, a permanently manned fire station and an island hospital with a doctor and a helicopter landing pad. There are several restaurants (Konobas) in the village that offer regional cuisine. Grohote is also home to the island's cultural association, Šoltanski Trudi, which hosts art events, olive oil and wine tastings.
history
Grohote is considered the oldest and largest village on the island. The place was first mentioned in 1370 as Grocotte , later as Grohotte , which means "crumbled rock". Evidence of an ancient settlement are Roman floor mosaics in the houses of the Bezic and Mladinov families or fragments of columns and capitals, Roman ceramics, tombstones or fragments of sarcophagi. Two early Christian sarcophagi are in the church cemetery. They were used again as tombs between the two world wars. The current church dates from 1914 to 1917 and was built on the basis of an older one from 1576. In addition, the fragments of an early Christian basilica from the end of the 5th century were exposed for about 200 believers. Some of the floor mosaics have been preserved. The church was destroyed in 1240 by Prince Osor Kacic of Omiš and his pirates. During the construction of the new church some ancient inscriptions were found, which are now exhibited in the archaeological museum in Split. At the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , the place is listed in the administration until 1918 with the Italian name Villa Grohote .
In 1867 the pastor of Grohote, Michael Vuskovič, was awarded the gold cross of merit with the crown by the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I "in recognition of his many years of meritorious services in the field of church and popular education, as well as his other charitable work." The telegraph came to Šolta late. In 1874 the kk state telegraph station Grohote was handed over to operation with "limited daily services". That was at the same time as in other smaller places of the monarchy such as in the Carinthian Sankt Paul im Lavanttal or in Pontafel (Pontebba) in the Canal valley .
Bizarre is the plaque of a grieving mother whose son was pierced by the horns of an ox while he was being fed. The church was built in the early 20th century. In 1928 it was not yet completed for lack of money.
Demographics
Grohote shows the typical population development for the island. The places in the interior of the island are losing massive numbers of inhabitants. In the coastal towns the trend is running in the opposite direction. Shortly before the end of the aristocracy, a maximum number of inhabitants was reached around 1900 with 1,362. Since then, the population has been falling steadily and is now only 441, a level like in the 16th century.
| Population development from 1857 to 2011 | |||||||||||||||
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| 1857 | 1869 | 1880 | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 | 1921 | 1931 | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 |
| 750 | 870 | 944 | 1160 | 1362 | 1245 | 1212 | 1269 | 996 | 992 | 913 | 712 | 619 | 631 | 425 | 441 |
literature
- Joško Belamaric: Island of Šolta. Library of Tourism and Heritage. No. 82, Zagreb, 2011. ISBN 978-953-215-697-3
- Mladen Andreis: Stanovništvo otoka Šolte do godine 1900. Šolta, Opcina, 2011. ISBN 978-953-55249-1-5 [1]
Web links
- Općina Šolta: Šolta Općina Šolta. Retrieved on August 13, 2019 (Croatian, official website of the municipality of Šolta).
- Ferry connections Split-Rogač kroati.de (German), croatiaferries.com (English), Jadrolinija jadrolinija.hr (Croatian), all accessed on August 16, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistical yearbook for 2006 of the Central Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia (PDF; 2.5 MB)
- ↑ Important telephone numbers (police / fire brigade / ambulance) on Šolta ( memento from February 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Belamaric, Insel Šolta , p. 19 ff.
- ↑ Split Archaeological Museum | German
- ↑ Stermich (Segretaria di Governo): AVVISO No. 24979-9466. In: Gazzetta di Zara / Gazzetta di Zara. Foglio Ufficiale (d'Annuncii / d'Annuzi) della Gazzetta di Zara , February 2, 1841, p. 12 (online at ANNO ). , accessed on September 2, 2019 (Italian, price list for cadastral extracts)
- ↑ Official part. In: (Imperial Royal Silesian) Troppauer Zeitung , 29 August 1867, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Announcements. In: Klagenfurter Zeitung , December 10, 1874, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).
- ^ Franz Werner: Autumn trip to southern Dalmatia. In: Reichspost , October 12, 1929, p. 1 f. (Online at ANNO ).
- ^ Republika Hrvatska - Državni zavod za statistiku: Naselja i stanovništvo Republike Hrvatske 1857-2001. ; Statistical yearbook for 2006 of the Central Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia (PDF; 2.5 MB)