New Zrin

Depiction of the Neu-Zrin fortress (copper engraving by Hieronymus Ortelius , 1664)

Location of the Neu-Zrin fortress at the mouth of the Mur River into the Drava (during the siege in 1664)

Commemoration event on the 350th anniversary of the destruction of the Neu-Zrin fortress on the obelisk (2014)

Neu-Zrin ( Croatian Novi Zrin , Hungarian Zrinyiújvár , Turkish Yeni Zerinvar Kalesi ), obsolete Neu-Serin , was a fortress near the mouth of the Mur River into the Drava , in the far east of today's northern Croatian County Međimurje next to the village of Donja Dubrava .

history

In 1661 the Ban of Croatia Nikolaus Zrinski had the fortress New Zrin built. The fortress was named after the castle Zrin , the seat of the aristocratic family Zrinski (= von Zrin), a branch of the Šubić family , which has been occupied by the Ottomans since 1577 .

Neu-Zrin primarily served as a counter-fortress to the fortress town of Kanizsa in southwest Hungary, which was lost to the Ottomans in the Long Turkish War in 1600 .

The Ottomans besieged New Zrin several times in the following three years, but Zrinski's troops always managed to defend the fortress. During the Turkish War of 1663/1664 a large Turkish army attacked in early June 1664 and the fortress was destroyed during the month-long siege of Neu-Zrin on July 7, 1664.

At the place where the fortress once stood, an obelisk was set up on the right bank of the Mur as a memorial . The area of ​​the former fortress is now divided between the municipality of Legrad in the Croatian county of Koprivnica-Križevci and the Republic of Hungary.

Web links

• Plan of the fortress Neu-Zrin (Croatian)
• Location, meaning and description of Neu-Zrins (Croatian)
• Figure Neu-Zrins and the obelisk (Croatian and English; PDF; 1.2 MB)
• New Zrin in the context of Croatian, Hungarian and European history (Croatian)
• The Turks blew up the fortress on July 7th

Coordinates: 46 ° 19 '25 "  N , 16 ° 52' 41.8"  E