Zlatar, Croatia

Zlatar is a town and municipality in Krapina-Zagorje County in Croatia.

History

The oldest mention of the place is as Zlatharia owned by the Bedeković family from the late 13th century. The name Zlatar is mentioned in its present form in 1566 as "possessio Zlatar" which belonged to the Aranyassy family. In 1699, the center of the church parish was transferred from Martinšćina to Zlatar, where a new parish church was built in 1762. Priest Ivan Gundak started the first elementary school in 1666 and in 1862 a new school was built.
During the rule of Ivan Mažuranić, Zlatar became a municipal and district seat, and in 1875 became the capital of the sub-county. In 1873, the first reading room was established in Zlatar, which had about seventy members. In 1907, a telephone was introduced in Zlatar. Many societies and associations were founded like a branch of the Croatian Falcon and the “Lastavica” cycling club. In the same year, two weekly papers began to be published: “Hrvatska Hrvatom” by the Party of Rights and “Zlatarski tjednik” by the Croat-Serb Coalition. In the 1935 Yugoslavian parliamentary election, representatives of the Croatian Peasant Party won in the Zlatar district. In 1937, Mirko Sviben became mayor, and among his first actions was to once again display the Croatian flag and have Cyrillic inscriptions removed from Zlatar. In the first parliamentary elections in Croatia in 1990, the HDZ won the majority of votes in Zlatar.

Demographics

In the 2021 census, there were 5,574 inhabitants in the following settlements:

Belec, population 316
Borkovec, population 205
Cetinovec, population 115
Donja Batina, population 310
Donja Selnica, population 151
Ervenik Zlatarski, population 23
Gornja Batina, population 207
Gornja Selnica, population 164
Juranšćina, population 162
Ladislavec, population 160
Martinšćina, population 340
Petruševec, population 114
Ratkovec, population 98
Repno, population 190
Šćrbinec, population 9
Vižanovec, population 111
Završje Belečko, population 56Zlatar, population 2,825
Znož, population 18

In the 2021 census, the absolute majority of the population were Croats at 98.65%.

Administration

The current mayor of Zlatar is Jasenka Auguštan-Pentek and the Zlatar Town Council consists of 13 seats.

Sports

The local chapter of the HPS is HPD "Oštrc", which had 21 members in 1936 under the Josip Rauer presidency. In 1937, 1 major and 9 minor expeditions were organised. Membership fell to 13 in 1938.