Krupanj

Coordinates: 44°22′N 19°22′E / 44.367°N 19.367°E / 44.367; 19.367
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Krupanj
Крупањ (Serbian)
Town and municipality
Krupanj
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
15314
Area code+381(0)15
Car platesLO
Websitewww.krupanj.org.rs
Church of Holy Ascension in the town center
Good Creek Church at the town outskirts

Krupanj (Serbian Cyrillic: Крупањ, pronounced [krûːpaɲ]) is a town and municipality located in the Mačva District of western Serbia. The municipality has a total population of 17,295 inhabitants, while the town has a population of 4,429 inhabitants (2011 census).

Geography

The town lies in western Serbia, at the southern border of the

rivers and creeks. In the town itself, the rivers Bogoštica, Čađavica and Kržava conjoin into Likodra, which later empties into Jadar. The town lies at the altitude
of 280 m.

The municipality area covers around 242 km2 (93.44 

Prince Lazar
, who defended it from Hungarian and Ottoman conquerors, and who is buried at the monument of Rađev Kamen.

Settlements

Aside from the town of Krupanj, the municipality includes the following settlements:

History

Already in the Roman period, the mining was developed in the modern Rađevina area. In the Middle Ages, mining was resurrected with the employment of the Sasi mining engineers, while the main buyers were the Ragusans.[3] The name 'Krupanj' was first recorded in Ragusan records on 27 July 1417. At the time, it was a silver mining site, frequented by Ragusan merchant caravans. Lead ore with a high content of silver was excavated at the Postenje and Jagodnja, and then transported across the Drina river, where it was melted in Srebrenica, which was a major silver processing center in the Balkans. This process also gave name to both settlements: larger lumps of ore were called "krupa" (hence, Krupanj) while the Serbian word for silver is "srebro" (Srebrenica).[4]

According to the Ragusan papers, in the first half of the 15th century Krupanj already had a court and both the Catholic (Saint Peter and Paul) and Orthodox church (First Krupanj church in Dobri Potok). The settlement was quite developed when in 1459 fell under

bas-reliefs which points out to the Branković dynasty.[4]

The Church of Dobri Potok (Dobropotočka crkva) at the town's outskirts, which is devoted to the Holy Ascension of

Mary, was first recorded in 1528 in Turkish records, making it the oldest preserved church in the Podrinje area.[citation needed
] Built in a traditional style, it hosts a number of records and monuments from Ottoman Rule and the 'Serbian Liberation wars' period. It is surrounded by a small ethno-park with several chapels and museum rooms.

The town was first liberated in the

St. Nicholas.[5]

New, intensive mining period began in 1870, and lasted up to the 1960s. Focus was shifted to

battle between Austria-Hungary and Serbian forces was fought at the nearby site of Mačkov kamen, the peak of Jagodnja mountain. A charnel house or memorial church is built in memory of the event 1930 when the bones of both Serbian soldier and Austrian aggressors were buried in the same ossuary.[4]

Town's hospital was donated by the benefactor Nikola Spasić, Daily Politika donated the cultural center, in memory of its founders, brothers Darko F. Ribnikar and Vladislav F. Ribnikar, who were both killed in action in this area, fighting off Austro-Hungarian invading forces in 1914, during World War I. There are also court building, police building and hotel "Borac".[3]

During

partisan Žikica Jovanović Španac killed two gendarmes on 7 July 1941, which would become the official date of celebration of the people's uprising against occupiers in Serbia during communist rule.[6] On 26 September 1941, a meeting of partisans' main headquarters, presided by Josip Broz Tito, was held in the nearby village of Stolice.[7] A monument and memorial park were built after the war, celebrating the event. As the town was one of the centers of the Republic of Užice, it was burned to the ground by German occupiers in late 1941, with only a few buildings surviving.[5]

During the war, antimony mining in Krupanj reached a peak, as

prunes were exported even to the United States. Some 30,000 cubic metres (1,100,000 cu ft) of wood yearly would be collected from the Boranja mountain.[3]

In the second half of the 20th century, all mining activity ceased. Founded in 1957 in Loznica, cellulose "Viskoza" factory became one of the largest companies in western Serbia by the 1980s. Several companies in connection to factory were founded in time in Krupanj. After the collapse of "Viskoza" in the 1990s, all industrial activity in Krupanj halted also. By the early 2020s, operational were only few micro-companies in wood industry, and one small textile factory, founded in the late 2010s.[3]

Krupanj was affected by significant flooding in May 2014. Many houses, roads and a bridge were completely destroyed.[8]

Demographics

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
194824,123—    
195325,396+1.03%
196124,520−0.44%
197123,529−0.41%
198122,530−0.43%
199121,879−0.29%
200220,192−0.73%
201117,295−1.71%
Source: [9]

According to the 2011 census results, the municipality has a population of 17,295 inhabitants.

Ethnic groups

The ethnic composition of the municipality:[10]

Ethnic group Population %
Serbs 16,629 96.15%
Muslims
 167 0.97%
Romani 133 0.77%
Bosniaks 50 0.29%
Others 316 1.83%
Total 17,295

Economy

The following table gives a preview of total number of employed people per their core activity (as of 2017):[11]

Activity Total
Agriculture, forestry and fishing 37
Mining 19
Processing industry 652
Distribution of power, gas and water 19
Distribution of water and water waste management 34
Construction 241
Wholesale and retail, repair 348
Traffic, storage and communication 144
Hotels and restaurants 91
Media and telecommunications 17
Finance and insurance 10
Property stock and charter 2
Professional, scientific, innovative and technical activities 48
Administrative and other services 14
Administration and social assurance 169
Education 243
Healthcare and social work 125
Art, leisure and recreation 25
Other services 62
Total 2,301

Tourism

There are two hotels in the town center. The Church of Good Creek is a preserved building of traditional sacral architecture. Several historical monuments from the World Wars include the ones at Stolice, Mačkov kamen and

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, a 19th-century reformer of the Serbian language
.

At the site of Mačkov kamen there is also a small

biking, and the creeks are rich in fish, especially trout;[citation needed
] there is an organized fishing ground at the site of Zmajevac. Several sporting grounds (including a sports hall and Olympic-sized open swimming pool) offer support for sports tourism, used by sport clubs from Serbia and nearby countries.

A religious, three-part ethno-complex of Dobri Potok Church Park is built in the linden forest north of Krupanj, including the Church of the Feast of the Ascension. Forming of the complex began in 1987, though some edifices are much older, and some are in town itself. The lower, Mother of God Park includes the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God (mentioned in 1528) with belfry and vault, a museum, paintings gallery and reception venue. Close to it is the underground Church of Saint Procopius in the former mining shaft, jointly with mining, pedagogic, hunting and beekeeping exhibitions. There is also a church dedicated to the Jugović brothers and a drinking fountain. The upper, Saint Sava Park, there is another underground church, dedicated to Saint Paraskeva, and the reconstructed village household from the 19th century. The third is a recreational Park of Archdeacon Stephen. Museum "Old Mansion" with a restaurant is in downtown Krupanj.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Municipalities of Serbia, 2006". Statistical Office of Serbia. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
  2. ISBN 978-86-6161-109-4
    . Retrieved 2014-06-27.
  3. ^ a b c d e Jovan Jović (21 June 2022). "Propadanje Rađevine" [Decline of Rađevina]. Politika (in Serbian). p. 21.
  4. ^ a b c Dobrivoje & Dobrila Pantelić (28 May 2017), "Dubrovačani dolazili po srebro", Politika-Magazin No. 1026 (in Serbian), pp. 24–25
  5. ^ a b "Istorija" (in Serbian). Official site of municipality of Krupanj. Retrieved 2010-10-11.
  6. Večernje Novosti
    .
  7. ^ Balkan-archive: Timeline of The Anti-Fascist Struggle in Yugoslavia Archived 2009-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Krupanj: Potresan epilog poplava" (in Serbian). B92. 2014-05-18.
  9. ^ "2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia" (PDF). stat.gov.rs. Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  10. ^ "2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia" (PDF). stat.gov.rs. Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  11. ^ "ОПШТИНЕ И РЕГИОНИ У РЕПУБЛИЦИ СРБИЈИ, 2018" (PDF). stat.gov.rs (in Serbian). Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  12. ^ Stanko Kostić (31 July 2022). Вера живи у Добром потоку [Faith lives in Dobri Potok]. Politika-Magazin, No. 1296 (in Serbian). pp. 20–22.

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