Ponikve, Karlovac County

Ponikve Поникве
Ponikve
Coordinates: 45°22′23″N15°14′13″E / 45.373°N 15.237°E / 45.373; 15.237
Country	Croatia
County	Karlovac
City	Ogulin
Area [1]
• Total	20.7 km2 (8.0 sq mi)
Elevation	222 m (728 ft)
Population  (2021) [2]
• Total	58
• Density	2.8/km2 (7.3/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	51326 Vrbovsko
Area code	+385 (0)47

Ponikve is a village in Karlovac County, Croatia. It is located in the municipality of Ogulin. The river Ponikva runs through it.

History

On 8 June 1654, Juraj V Frankapan Tržački issued in Novigrad na Dobri a document granting Stjepan Domitrović a selo in Osojnik, while ordering a resolution to the border dispute between Jadrč and Ponikve. ^{[3] : 5}

WWII

In late June or early July 1941, the priest in Ponikve was arrested. In early July, he had not yet been sent away. As of a 15 July document, all he had been sent to a concentration camp. ^{[4] : 359}

Around 7:00 on 19 June 1942, a group of 18 Partisans halted and commandeered an automobile belonging to Matija Rački of Severin, who had been transporting passengers to Karlovac. They commanded the owner and passengers to return to their homes, and directed the driver to take them to Ponikve, where they let Rački go but kept the automobile for themselves. ^[5]

Recent

On 27 March 2022 at 13:16 the ŽVOC Karlovac received a call about a wildfire in the area. 144 hectares (360 acres) burned by the time it was put out at 17:00 by 13 firefighters with 5 vehicles JVP Ogulin, DVD Ogulin, DVD Zagorje and DVD Ribarić. ^[6]

Demographics

Village of Ponikve: Population trends 1857–2021

v

population	758	909	946	911	795	832	760	799	695	648	483	406	292	179	159	98	58
	1857	1869	1880	1890	1900	1910	1921	1931	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011	2021

Note:Od 1857. do 1880. sadrži dio podataka za naselje Popovo Selo. Od 1910. do 1931. sadrži dio podataka za naselje Gomirje, grad Vrbovsko, županija Primorsko-goranska. Sources: Croatian Bureau of Statistics publications

References

1. Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata   Q119585703.
2. "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements" (xlsx). Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
3. Strohal, Rudolf (1932). Grad i selo Severin u Gorskom Kotaru na Kupi[The Town and Village of Severin in Gorski Kotar on the Kupa] (in Croatian). Zagreb: Jugoslovenska štampa.
4. Škiljan, Filip (2011-12-01). "Teror ustaškog režima nad srpskim stanovništvom na području kotareva Vrbovsko, Delnice i Ogulin u proljeće i ljeto 1941. godine" [Terror of the Ustasha Regime against the Serbian Population in the Territory of the Vrbovsko, Delnice and Ogulin Districts in the Spring and Summer 1941]. Radovi Zavoda za hrvatsku povijest Filozofskoga fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu: Radovi Zavoda za hrvatsku povijest Filozofskoga fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu (in Croatian). 43 (1): 343–372. eISSN   1849-0344.
5. Trgo 1964, p. 354.
6. VOS (2022-03-28). "DVOC 27. / 28. ožujka 2022". Hrvatska vatrogasna zajednica. Archived from the original on 2022-07-09.

Bibliography

• Trgo, Fabijan, ed. (1964). Zbornik dokumenata i podataka o Narodno-oslobodilačkom ratu Jugoslovenskih naroda. Vol. V, 32.