Ključne riječi • Key words

Bosiljevo
castle
Frankopan family
memorial heritage
traditional architecture
landscape protection

Članak obrađuje područje Bosiljeva s obzirom na karakterističnu tradicionalnu arhitekturu i urbanu strukturu, te njegove prirodne vrijednosti, a mikroperiodizacijom je obuhvaćen povijesni i prostorni raspored kulturne i prirodne baštine, pojave stilova te povijesno-političke promjene vezane za hrvatsku povijest i kulturu.

This article describes the Bosiljevo area, its characteristic traditional architecture and urban structure, and its natural features. The microperiodization covers the historical and spatial distribution of the cultural and natural heritage, the appearance of styles, and historical and political changes connected to Croatian history and culture.

Sažetak • Summary

BOSILJEVO
Cultural, Historical and Natural Features




The author writes about the Bosiljevo area, whir:h has outstanding cultural, historicnl and natural features. Since this part of the Karlovac County is not well known, the article will provide better insight into this area of people and events important in Croatian history and culture. Bosiljevo lies in a favourable communications position by the Zagreb-Rijeka road and is of touristic interest.

The article presents the historical and spatial development of the Bosiljevo area cultural heritage. It started in thc prehistoric Neolithic period, with the Lasinje Culture. Roman rule left traces, and the only possible interruption in settlement occured during the migrations of peoples. In the fourteenth centruy written sources show a constituted feudal community. There were major changes in the period from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century connected with the first owners of Bosiljevo Castle - the Krčki-Frankopan family. After the Zrinjski-Frankopan conspiracy was discovered and Fran Krsto Frankopan beheaded in 1671, the Bosiljevo estate was often plundered and devastated. Ban Nikola Erdödy became its owner, then the Auersperg family, Ana Marija de Poczi, the Auersbergs again, and after 1820 the coniroversial Austrian Marshal and English General Laval Nugent, who reconstructed Bosiljevo Castle in the neoromantic style, filling the interior with the most valuable private collection of that time. The twentieth century brought a radical reconstruction of Bosiljevo by its owner Andrija Kozulić, and the economic and communications isolation of the Bosiljevo area. After the Second World War attempts were made to give the castle its former importance and appearance but today it stands empty and half ruined, proof that these attempts were unsuccessful.

The microperiodization includes historical and political changes and the styles in which the most important buildings were built: the parish church of St. Maurus, the pilgrimage church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Gradišće hill, and Bosiljevo Castle. Because of the Turkish devastation of churches and the radical reconstruction of the castle in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, today Bosiljevo is identified with a historicist parish church, a baroque pilgrimage church, and a neoromantic castle.

The settlement is dominated by the indigenous rural architecture of the Kupa region, and the characteristic undulating land in the southwest, edged by a chain of mountain ridges and fine ancient forests, completes its picture. The road and paths afford many lovely views of the hilly landscape and the urban structure. The only planned area is the park around the old castle, laid out in the nineteenth century during the neoromantic renewal.

Crucial for the future complete evaluation of Bosiljevo as a tourist area, and for its economic development, is the construction of a crossing on the Zagreb-Rijeka road and links with the unused potentials of the future reservoir of the river Dobra, Toplica Lešće, and ihe protected landscape of Klek mountain.