Brod Moravice

Brod Moravice was first mentioned in 1260. The rural municipality was founded in the 14th century.^[3] Throughout history, it has also been known as Moravice, Gornje Moravice, Turanj and Brodske Moravice. The name was first recorded in one of Bela IV's documents in 1260. The first settlements appeared in Gorski kotar as early as the 10th or 11th centuries, due to the fact that routes to the coast passed through this area.^[3]

During the 15th and 16th centuries, the municipality was the subject of numerous Turkish raids.

On 4 June 1657, as part of a delimitation between the possessions of the Zrinski family in Brod and those of the Frankapan family in Severin, a document was drawn up before a committee in Moravičke Drage consisting of baron Planker oberhautmann of Karlovac on behalf of Juraj IV Frankapan and Juraj Sili kapetan dvoranski and vicekapetan of Žumberak and Boltizar Babonosić prefect of Ozalj on behalf of Petar Zrinski. Those who gave testimony about the boundary were Martin Goljak (80), Matija Šnepergar (80), Mihajlo Šepec (80), Petar Butina (85), Petar Abramović (85), Lovro Crnković (85), Juraj Šnepergar (88), Juraj Podnar (90), Matija Goljak (90), Jakov Goršet (90), Jakov Butina (90) and Martin Blažević who claimed to be a centenarian and helped build the Turanj tower in Gornje Moravice when ordered by brothers Juraj and Nikola Zrinski.^[4]: 6

In 1860–1879, Matija Mažuranić wrote a 62 folio manuscript today titled Writings on the Building of Roads in Gorski Kotar and Lika (Croatian: Spisi o gradnji cesta u Gorskom Kotaru i Lici), today with signature HR-ZaNSK R 6424. A 21 folio manuscript dated 1872 titled Darstellung der Entstehung des Baues ... der Luisenstrasse together with a translation by I. Mikloušić is kept as HR-ZaNSK R 4572.^[5]: 223

In 1864, a rinderpest outbreak in Bosanci and Kasuni caused the Lujzijana to be closed to horned traffic for 21 days in December.^[6]

The volunteer fire department DVD Brod Moravice was founded in 1912,^[7] and is today part of the Požarno područje Gorski kotar IV. Its current commander is Goran Magdić.^[8]

The municipality, part of the historic and geographic large region of the Littoral, is located in the mountain range close to Croatian borders with Slovenia. It is 65 km from Karlovac, 71 from Rijeka, 114 from Zagreb, 104 from Ljubljana and 144 from Trieste.

In 1895, the obćina of Brod Moravice (court at Brod Moravice), with an area of 47 square kilometres (18 mi²), belonged to the kotar of Delnice (Delnice court and electoral district) in the županija of Modruš-Rieka (Ogulin court and financial board). There were 330 houses, with a population of 2297. Its 22 villages and 33 hamlets were divided for taxation purposes into 2 porezne obćine, under the Delnice office.^{[20]: iv, v}

It is the smallest municipality by population, and the oldest one in its county.

The municipality is divided into 38 localities, included the town of Brod Moravice itself. In the 2011 census, there were a total of 985 inhabitants in the following settlements:^[2][21]

By ethnicity, there were 96% Croats and 4% Italians in the same census.^[22]

Its Catholic parish was first mentioned in the 14th century, and its parish church was built in 1434. In 1939, its parish had 2331 souls, plus 70 outside the country; it also administered the nearby Podstene parish.^[23] In 1974, its parish had 1400 souls, plus 50 outside the country.^[24]

List of parish priests of Brod Moravice:

• Stanko Ružić (b. Kostrena Sveta Lucija 1887-11-06, primiz Sušak 1913-05-20)^[25]
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• Leopold Barić (b. Čamerovac 1933-02-26, primiz Senj 1965-07-04)^[26]

Beginning in 2013,^[29] the 7 stage 260 kilometres (160 mi) long Cycling Trail of Gorski Kotar (Croatian: Goranska biciklistička transverzala) passes through Brod Moravice.^[30]

In 1913, there were three gendarmeries in Delnice kotar: one in Delnice itself, one in Brod Moravice and one in Fužine.^[31]

The municipality counts lot of ancient church buildings.^[3] It is also a receptive place for tourism due to its natural environment.^[32]

The 600 metres (2,000 ft) long linden avenue was planted at the beginning of the 20th century.^[33]

Brod Moravice has an infirmary^[34]

Brod Moravice is crossed by the state road D3 and the nearest motorway is the A6 (nearest exit is the n.3 "Ravna Gora"). As for railways, it counts a station on the line Rijeka-Ogulin-Karlovac-Zagreb.

• Matija Legović, biathlete^[35]

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  Sv. Nikole church.
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  Houses on Delači street.
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  Kolodvorska street.
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  Brod Moravice railway station