Original scientific paper
Spatial Development of Medieval Royal Burgs and Towns in Podravina
Ratko Vučetić
; Institute of Art History, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Stage 1. PRE-URBAN - dispersive structure of population in vicinity of a road, with focus on market place, not inhabited yet; Stage 2. PRE-URBAN - settlement along the market place - creation of a firmer spatial structure; Stage 3. URBAN - royal privileges bestowed on a settlement, building of a church or a convent, settlement of traders and crafsmen, formation of a longitudinal structure of a settlement alongside marketplace street; a burg is structured as a cross between a residential fortification and a parish church; Stage 4. URBAN A. formation of town’s fortification walls, a parish church, as a rule, remains outside fortified structures, dense population rate is within fortification, road structure of settlements Križevci and Koprivnica more complex structure with partition to insulae - Varaždin and Virovitica; B. 16th century fortification (a town becomes a fortification) - town’s expansion and its forts, more complex structure of streets - Varaždin - emerging of secondary streets, parallel with central marketplace street (Križevci, Koprivnica); clearing of buildings in immediate vicinity of fortification; due to a specific situation, this process is different in Virovitica - within walls there is a process of suburban buildings moving inside the fortification walls, which leads to spatial shrinking of the town.
Keywords
Podravina; burg; suburb; urban development; Koprivnica
Hrčak ID:
79092
URI
Publication date:
1.6.2003.
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