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Medieval Ivanić – Its Development and Spatial Organization of Settlement

Maja Cepetić ; Odsjek za povijest umjetnosti, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka

Sažetak

The medieval settlement of Ivanić, which was mentioned for the first time in 1246, was the centre of the namesake estate of the bishop of Zagreb. The estate was given to the bishopric by King Ladislas I, as a part of the larger estate of Dubrava, on the occasion of its foundation in the 1090s. Based on the analysis of historical sources, extant monuments of building heritage and field research, the author tries to establish the historical conditions influencing the development of medieval Ivanić, with the emphasis on the period of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Thanks to its advantageous geographical position on the great road connecting Zagreb and Čazma, the settlement developed into a privileged (bishop’s) borough. Its importance as a centre of the local area was the result of a number of functions that the medieval settlement had (administrative, religious, judicial, and connected to traffic and trade), and these influenced its development to a great extent. The bishop’s castle was a focus of administrative function (the seat of the estate and the castle district), and also of military defensive function in cases of need, as happened during the riot of the praediales in the 1230s. One of the most important economic functions of the settlement was certainly trade, for which its good position in terms of routes and traffic was certainly beneficial. The religious functions of the settlement in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries may be seen from the fact that there existed a monastery and the monastic church of St. Mary, which simultaneously functioned as the parish church.
The medieval settlement developed alongside the great road, on the eastern side of which was placed the bishop’s castle and probably a supposed chapel/church of St. John the Baptist, in that way belonging to the settlements of longitudinal shape developed alongside major traffic directions. The crossing of two locally important roads, the main street and the road coming from the south-west, created a funnel-shaped square forming the central part of the settlement, which was at the same time suitable for trading activities. On its south-western side, there existed the parish and monastic church of St. Mary, built in the time of Bishop Stephen II, through the building of which the settlement acquired another spatial determinant. Its placement on the periphery of the settlement is characteristic of the settlements of the area of present-day north-western Croatia in the High and Late Middle Ages.

Ključne riječi

Slavonia; the High Middle Ages; the Archdiocese of Zagreb; Ivanić; urban topography

Hrčak ID:

168178

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/168178

Datum izdavanja:

31.12.2015.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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