Plitvički Krčingrad i Babonići – prilog kontekstualizaciji vremena gradnje
Krčingrad at Plitvice and the Babonić – Contextualizing the Date of Construction

Summary/Abstract: The old town of Krčingrad is located on the wooded peninsula between the Kozjačko and Gradinsko lakes in the National Park of Plitvice Lakes. Despite its extraordinary position, its past is barely known owing to the scarcity of written documents. Based on an interdisciplinary evaluation of the archaeological fi nds, the author discusses the question of ownership over this old town at Plitvice. A broad contextualization of the preserved historical sources has served to consider the correlation between Krčingrad, Drežnička County, and the Babonić Counts, the existence of a medieval traffic route through the Plitvice Lakes, and the significance of its micro-location. The area of Plitvice Lakes is mentioned in a charter issued by King Andrew III the Venetian (1292), as an integral part of Drežnička County and owned by the Babonić. The very micro-location of Krčingrad on the peninsula between the two lakes suggests that it may have been built at the spot where goods were transported from Kozjačko to Gradinsko lakes. The geostrategic importance of the Plitvice route, and thus of Krčingrad itself, changed in 1323, when King Charles Robert confi rmed Drežnička County as property of Count Dujam III.

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