Stomorska

Stomorska
Coordinates: 43 ° 22 ′ 10 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 10 ″  E
Basic data
State :	Croatia
County :	Split-Dalmatia
Island :	Šolta
Height :	0  m. i. J.
Residents :	241 (2011)
Telephone code :	(+385) 021
Postal code :	21430 Grohote
License plate :	ST
Structure and administration (as of 2017)
Community type :	Village
Mayor :	Nikola Cecić-Karuzić (candidate Grupe Birača)
Postal address :	Podkuća 8 Grohote
Website :	www.solta.hr

Eastern bay side

Stomorska is a place and a cadastral municipality on the island or municipality of Šolta in the Croatian Split-Dalmatia County in the Adriatic opposite Split west of Brač . Stomorska is the oldest port of Šolta and has 241 inhabitants. It is well developed gastronomically and has a marina.

geography

port

The village is connected to the mainland ( Split ) by catamaran ferries. Car ferries dock in Rogač, eleven kilometers away . Stomorska is located in the eastern part of the island in a narrow bay on the north coast and forms the end of the state road D111. The cadastral community includes the area around the port and some smaller bays on the north coast towards the east to Gornja Krušica.

economy

Second homes

From the 14th century to 1905, the island was owned by the Split nobility and the Catholic Church . The proximity to the city, approx. 17 km by boat, made the island an important supplier of wood, lime, meat, fish, oil, wine, almonds, carob , figs and honey. Olive oil and wine were exported to Italy by wooden sailors. Some of the ships have been preserved. Like the hinterland around Gornje Selo , the place was famous for its lime kiln. An old lime kiln, which was built in 1916, can still be seen on the west bank of the bay. Some fishermen and sailors still live here today. The main source of income is tourism. The place has a good gastronomic infrastructure. There are already many second homes and apartments, especially from the east side of the bay along the north coast.

Demographics

Old district

Population development since 1857
1857	1869	1880	1890	1900	1910	1921	1931	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011
112	0	165	199	294	295	213	312	312	286	303	206	101	117	199	241

history

Lime kiln ruins from 1916

Stomorska is the oldest coastal town in Šolta, which was expanded from the 17th century. At the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , the place is listed in the administration until 1918 with the Italian name Stomosca . However, the settlement is much older. There are a number of prehistoric barrows above the village. There was an Illyrian fortress on Vela Straža . While people settled on the coast at the time of the almost millennial Roman peace, this became more dangerous again in the Middle Ages. Since the island was in the border area between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice , the risk of looting and raids, especially by the pirates of Omiš , was great, which is why there were only places in the interior of the island for centuries. As early as the 14th century, Stomorska is mentioned as the bay of the inhabitants of Gornje Selo , two kilometers away . The name is derived from the Church of the Madonna Stomorina . At that time there was a monastery monasterium sanctae Mariae de Solta on the island , which probably owned lands around Stomorska, like the aristocratic Cindro family. The Bucič family from Hvar once ran a small shipyard. The Filipino monks from Split settled families for agricultural work. The fort at the end of the bay was built by the Cindros. A casella , a small house, a disinfection building for ships, was built in the 18th century. There are similar ones in Rogač, between Rogač and Nečujam, in Maslinica and in Straćinska. The jetty with anchorage in the bay was built at the beginning of the 19th century. The church of St. Nicholas on the east side of the village dates from 1870.

Defunct palm trees in Stomorska

The island is so south that palm trees like date palms thrive splendidly. The red palm weevil ( Rhynchophorus ferrugineus ) introduced from Malaysia via Africa has also reached Stomorska and is spreading further in Croatia due to the lack of natural enemies. Despite official bans (in Croatia since 2009), non-compliance with quarantine measures, forged documents of origin and missing or improper removal of infested plants destroyed the palm population in Šolta for an indefinite period of time. A few years ago there were more than ten large palm trees in the port of Stomorska.

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

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

• Općina Šolta: Šolta Općina Šolta. Retrieved on August 13, 2019 (Croatian, official website of the municipality of Šolta). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zoran Civadelic / Zoran Bursac: Welcome to Stomorska! ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 19, 2012. 
2. ^ 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 file; 2.4 MB)
3. ↑ 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 3, 2019 (Italian, price list for cadastral extracts)
4. ↑ Belamaric, Insel Šolta , p. 42 ff.
5. ↑ Many ancient finds from the island are in the Split Archaeological Museum | issued in German .
6. ↑ Belamaric, Insel Šolta , p. 51 ff.
7. ↑ croonline: The days of the Canary Island date palm are numbered in Zadar. kroatien-nachrichten.de, February 10, 2018, accessed on August 12, 2019 .