Krapina

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Krapina
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Krapina (Croatia)
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Coordinates: 46 ° 9 ′ 32 ″  N , 15 ° 52 ′ 28 ″  E
Basic data
State : Croatian flag Croatia
County : Flag of the Krapina-Zagorje County Krapina-Zagorje
Height : 203  m. i. J.
Area : 58  km²
Residents : 12,480 (2011)
Population density : 215 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code : (+385) 049
Postal code : 49,000
License plate : KR
Structure and administration
(status: 2013, cf. )
Community type : city
Mayor : Zoran Gregurović ( HDZ )
Coalition partner : ZDS, HSLS, A-HSS
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Krapina ( Eng . Historically: Grabing ) is a city in northern Croatia and forms the administrative seat of the Krapina-Zagorje County .

location

Krapina is located in the hilly historical region of Hrvatsko Zagorje , about 55 km from both Zagreb and Varaždin . 4,471 and a total of 12,480 residents (as of 2011) live in the city.

history

The city was first mentioned in 1193.

In 1899, the geologist and paleontologist Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger began to excavate a total of almost 900 severely splintered bones from at least 23 early Neanderthals from around 130,000 years ago in an abbey on the Hušnjak hill near the town ( Krapina (archaeological site) ). Several hundred stone tools and fossil animal bones were also found. It is believed that this was a burial place. The thesis that ritual cannibalism was practiced has now been disproved. In 2010 the Neanderthal Museum was opened in Krapina .

Culture

Every September, the town hosts the Festival of Kaykavian Culture and Songs ( Tjedan kajkavske kulture i popevke ), where performances are sung in the local Kaykavian dialect and traditional customs of Croatian Zagorje are demonstrated.

The traditional thermal bath Krapinske Toplice is located near the city .

sons and daughters of the town

gallery

  • Neanderthal Museum Krapina

  • Neanderthal Museum Krapina

  • Neanderthal Museum Krapina

  • Krapina

  • Krapina

literature

  • Herbert Ullrich: Cannibalism in the Palaeolithic . In: F. Schlette, D. Kaufmann (Ed.): Religion and Cult in Prehistory and Early History Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1989 p. 51ff.

Web links

Commons : Krapina  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://mzk.georeferencer.com/compare#