Lepoglava

Lepoglava

coat of arms

Basic data

8,283 (2011)

(+385) 042

42 250

VŽ

Structure and administration
(status: 2013, cf. )

city

Marijan Škvarić ( HNS )

Lepoglava - town center

Lepoglava (outdated German Schönhaupt ) is a town and municipality in the Varaždin County in Croatia . It is best known for the prison where political prisoners have been held by various regimes since the middle of the 19th century .

location

Lepoglava is located in the Bednja river valley in the Hrvatsko zagorje region , eight kilometers southwest of Ivanec .

The city of Lepoglava together with 15 other places as a large municipality has a total of 8,283 inhabitants (2011 census).

Around 1400 a Pauline monastery was founded in Lepoglava , which was taken over by Austria-Hungary in 1854 and converted into a penal institution . After the First World War , the prison was taken over by the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , which included many political prisoners such as B. from 1928 to 1933 imprisoned the communist Josip Broz Tito . During the fascist Independent State of Croatia which used Ustasha regime to prison as a concentration camp Lepoglava . After the Second World War it was used as a prison by communist Yugoslavia , in which alleged or actual political opponents such as the blessed Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac or the former partisan general Franjo Tuđman were imprisoned. After the collapse of Yugoslavia , it is now the largest prison in Croatia with around 800 prisoners .

↑ Matthias Koeffler, Matthias Jacob: Croatia: On the road between Istria, Slavonia and Dalmatia (= Trescher series Travel ). Trescher Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89794-323-0 , pp. 115 .
↑ Daniela Schetar-Köthe, Tony Kelly, James Steward: Baedeker SMART Travel Guide Croatia: Perfect days on the Adriatic Sea and in the green hinterland . 2nd Edition. Mair Dumont, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8297-8165-7 , pp. 176 .