Vučnik

Vučnik is a village in Croatia, under the Vrbovsko township, in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County.

History

In 1860–1879, Matija Mažuranić wrote a 62 folio manuscript today titled Writings on the Building of Roads in Gorski Kotar and Lika, today with signature HR-Za NSK R 6424. A 21 folio manuscript dated 1872 titled Darstellung der Entstehung des Baues... der Luisenstrasse togethr with a translation by I. Mikloušić is kept as HR-Za NSK R 4572.
In 1864, a rinderpest outbreak in Bosanci and Kasuni caused the Lujzijana to be closed to horned traffic for 21 days in December.
Construction on the Črnomelj-Vrbovsko railway begun in 1939, but by 1940 it had come to a halt thanks to a worker dispute. Thanks to the outbreak of WWII, it was never finished.
On 19 June 1942, a group of 50 Partisans set up a blockade on the road in Vučnik, stopping traffic between Karlovac and Vrbovsko.
Vučnik was hit by the 2014 Dinaric ice storm.

As of 2021, there were only 2 inhabitants under the age of 20, both boys.

As of its foundation on 3 March 2008, it belongs to the of Lukovdol.

The water storage unit in Nadvučnik, with a capacity of at an elevation of, is also responsible for Lukovdol, Podvučnik, Vučnik, Gorenci and part of Draga Lukovdolska.