Voćin

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Voćin
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Voćin (Croatia)
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Coordinates: 45 ° 36 ′ 32 ″  N , 17 ° 32 ′ 42 ″  E
Basic data
State : Croatian flag Croatia
County : Flag of Virovitica-Podravina County Virovitica-Podravina
Residents : 2,382 (2011)
Telephone code : (+385) 033
Postal code : 33522
License plate : SL
Structure and administration
(status: 2013, cf. )
Community type : local community
Mayor : Tomislav Tolušić ( HDZ )
Coalition partner : HSS, HSLS, HSP AS, BUZ
Postal address : Trg Gospe Voćinske 1
33522 Voćin
Website :

Voćin is a village and a municipality in the Virovitica-Podravina County in Croatia in the historical Slavonia region . In the 2001 census, the community had 2,421 inhabitants, 85.46% of them Croatians and 13.01% Serbs . The village alone had 1,161 inhabitants. In the 2011 census, the community had 2,382 inhabitants, 90.13% of them Croatians and 8.86% Serbs. The village alone has 1,191 inhabitants.

geography

Voćin is located at an altitude of 215 m on the northern edge of the Papuk Mountains on the small river Voćinska Rijeka . The municipality is located about 20 km southwest of Slatina and 25 km east of Daruvar .

Districts

The municipality of Voćin consists of 20 other districts:

history

Memorial in memory of the victims of the 1991 genocide

A first settlement under the name Achyna or Othyna is believed to have been in the 12th century. Voćin Castle is mentioned for the first time in 1317 in a deed of donation from Charles I Robert (King of Hungary). A St. Nicholas church is documented for the year 1334. In the Middle Ages , Voćin was an important church center with two monasteries , probably a Franciscan and a Poor Clare monastery with their churches ( All Saints and St. Clare ). In 1434 the town was owned by the Gorjanski family . Since 1508 the place belonged to the Hungarian noble family of Batthyány . The monastery church of All Saints, built at the end of the 15th century (1494) as a late Gothic hall church , was renovated in the first half of the 18th century and consecrated to the parish church and the Blessed Virgin Mary . During the Ottoman rule from 1543 to 1687, the Franciscans were able to maintain pastoral care on site. From 1775 Voćin was owned by Count Erdödy , then Count Janković , until it was acquired by a timber contractor, Baron Edmund Gutmann, at the end of the 19th century. The castle, located in a park in the center of the village, was destroyed by fire in 1918. An economic boom set in during the 19th century. The Zvečevo family ran a glass factory . A railway line was built between Voćin and Čačinci . A sanatorium for lung diseases was established in Voćin. In the second half of the 19th century the church developed into a place of pilgrimage with pilgrims on foot from Posavina , Požega , West Slavonia , Podravina and other places. In 1944, the church was burned down during World War II . Reconstruction only began in 1964. The church was covered again in 1973 and rededicated in 1984, mainly thanks to the support of Croatians who lived in Burgenland , Austria . During the Croatian War , the area around Voćin was occupied in October 1991 by Serbian paramilitary units, the so-called " White Eagle (Beli orlovi) ". Shortly before it was retaken by the Croatian army, these paramilitary forces blew up the church on December 13, 1991 and completely destroyed it. In these days 43 residents of the place and the surrounding villages were murdered. After the establishment of the Diocese of Požega in 1997, the initiative was taken to reconstruct the church. Construction began in 2002 with the laying of the foundation stone. Pope John Paul II specially blessed this cornerstone in 1998. The church was consecrated again on August 14, 2011.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Parish church

Parish Church of Our Lady

The parish church of " Our Lady " in Voćin is a faithful reconstruction of the medieval Gothic hall church. The interior is decorated with works of art by various Croatian artists. The entrance door, a gift from the Duhani company from Virovitica , was made by the sculptor Hrvoje Ljubić. On the outside, the main events from the history of the parish and pilgrimage sites are depicted in reliefs made of bronze. On the inside, four mysteries of the rosary are depicted in reliefs made of copper . The central wooden cross , the stone altar , the ambo and the bronze candlesticks were made by the sculptor Šime Vulas, a gift from the town of Požega. The wall paintings are by Josip Biffel. The mosaics on the walls of three chapels are based on sketches by Croatian artists Ivo Dulčić and Ljubo Ivančić. The tabernacle door is the work of the sculptor Josip Poljan. The same artist also made the monument "In the Embrace of the Mother", which the Diocese of Požega erected in 2010 on the right near the entrance to the church. It commemorates the victims of the 1991 genocide .

Castle

The castle is in a dominant position above the confluence of the Djedovica and Jovanovica streams , at approximately 300 m above sea ​​level . During the liberation struggles from the Turks , the Voćin fortress was destroyed in 1687 and was not renewed afterwards.

Pilgrimage

The Marian pilgrimage has a special meaning for the municipality of Voćin. A big children's pilgrimage takes place on the first Saturday in May. Another big day of pilgrimage is August 21st in memory of Saint Stephen , King of Hungary. The annual main pilgrimage to Voćin with around 15,000 pilgrims takes place on the patronage, the feast of the birth of Mary , on September 8th.

additional

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official final results for the Croatian municipal elections 2013 ( Memento of the original from December 24, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.izbori.hr
  2. ↑ POPULATION BY ETHNICITY, BY TOWNS / MUNICIPALITIES, CENSUS 2001
  3. ↑ POPULATION BY SEX AND AGE, BY SETTLEMENTS, CENSUS 2001
  4. ↑ 2011 population census
  5. ↑ 2011 census ethnic groups
  6. ↑ Census 2011 settlements
  7. ↑ Voćin website
  8. ↑ Voćin website
  9. ↑ Article in the English Wikipedia "Voćin massacre"
  10. ↑ Antun Skvorcevic, obnovljena crkva i Svetište Gospe Voćinske, Požega 2011 (Croatian), ISBN 978-953-7647-12-4