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{{short description|Village in Krapina-Zagorje County, Croatia}}
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| official_name      = Kumrovec
| settlement_type    = [[Municipalities of Croatia|Municipality]]
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| map_caption        = Location of Kumrovec in Croatia
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| subdivision_type   = [[Countries of the world|Country]]
| subdivision_name   = {{flag|Croatia}}
| subdivision_type1  = [[Counties of Croatia|County]]
| subdivision_name1  = {{flag|Krapina-Zagorje}}
| leader_title       = Mayor
| leader_name        = Robert Šplajt ([[Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats|HNS]])
| area_footnotes     = <ref>{{Cite Q|Q119585703|mode=cs1}}</ref>
| area_total_km2     = 17.5
| area_urban_km2     = 2.1
| population_footnotes = <ref name="Census 2021">{{Croatian Census 2021|S}}</ref>
| population_as_of   = 2021
| population_total   = 1412
| population_density_km2 = auto
| population_urban   = 245
| population_density_urban_km2 = auto
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| timezone           = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| timezone_DST       = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
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| website            = {{URL|kumrovec.hr}}
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'''Kumrovec''' ({{IPA|hr|kûmroʋet͡s}}) is a [[village]] in the northern part [[Croatia]], part of [[Krapina-Zagorje County]]. It sits on the [[Sutla]] River, along the Croatian-Slovenian border. The Kumrovec municipality has 1,412 residents (2021), but the village itself has only 245 people.<ref name="Census 2021"/> The municipality was established on May 6, 1997, after it was split from the municipality of [[Tuhelj]].

Kumrovec is notably the birthplace of [[Josip Broz Tito]] (1892–1980), the president of [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|former Yugoslavia]]. The birth house of Tito (built in 1860 as the first brickwork house in the village) features the Memorial Museum of Marshal Tito, opened in 1953. The museum is also important for the local folklore. Next to the house is the bronze standing statue of Marshal Tito (made by [[Antun Augustinčić]], 1948). The old part of Kumrovec comprises the Ethnological Museum with 18 village houses, displaying permanent exhibitions of artifacts related to the life and work of Zagorje peasants in the 19th/20th century. The village is small but of great popularity in the former Yugoslavia, owing to the annual celebration of [[Youth Day#Yugoslavia|Youth Day]] every May 25.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.total-croatia-news.com/lifestyle/63024-several-thousand-admirers-of-tito-aelebrate-day-of-youth-in-kumrovec |title=Several Thousand Admirers of Tito Celebrate Day of Youth in Kumrovec |publisher=Total Croatia News |date=21 May 2022 |access-date=15 July 2022 |archive-date=22 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022150805/https://www.total-croatia-news.com/lifestyle/63024-several-thousand-admirers-of-tito-aelebrate-day-of-youth-in-kumrovec |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Today the major attraction of Kumrovec is the Ethnological Museum Staro Selo (Old Village) Kumrovec with very well preserved village houses from the turn of 19th/20th century. The reconstruction and redecoration of these houses started in 1977. So far 40-odd houses and other farmstead facilities have been restored, which makes Staro Selo the most attractive place of this kind in Croatia. Visitors may see permanent ethnological exhibitions such as the [[Zagorje]]-style Wedding, the Life of Newly-weds, From Hemp to Linen, Blacksmith's Crafts, Cart-wright's Craft, Pottery, From Grain to Bread, etc.

On November 24, 1935, the [[Brethren of the Croatian Dragon]] raised a monument to the Croatian anthem [[Lijepa naša domovino]] to celebrate its one hundredth anniversary. Kumrovec celebrates this day as its municipal holiday.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tzkzz.hr/hr/odredista/mjesta/kumrovec/|title=Kumrovec|work=tzkzz.hr|language=Croatian|accessdate=17 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417132209/http://www.tzkzz.hr/hr/odredista/mjesta/kumrovec/|archive-date=17 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==History==
In the late 19th and early 20th century, Kumrovec was part of [[Varaždin County (former)|Varaždin County]] of the [[Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia]].

According to the research of Slovenian historian {{ill|Daniel Siter|sl}}, during the initial phase of the German occupation of the Slovene-Croatian territory between May and June 1941, the municipality of Kumrovec was temporarily occupied by [[Nazi Germany]], along with other parts of the western outskirts of the [[Hrvatsko Zagorje|Croatian Zagorje]] ([[Hum na Sutli|Hum na Sotli]], Prišlin, Druškovec, Brezno and [[Lupinjak]]). For the first few weeks after the occupation in April, the swastika also hung in Kumrovec. The occupied territory of Western Croatian Zagorje (including Kumrovec) was returned to the [[Independent State of Croatia]] in mid-June 1941. At that time, the state and occupation border between Germany and Croatia was finally established along the water line of the [[Sotla river]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Siter |first=Daniel |title=Rogaška Slatina pod kljukastim križem: zdravilišče med okupacijo 1941-1945 |publisher=Alma Mater Europaea - Fakulteta za humanistični študij, Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Ljubljana |year=2023 |isbn=978-961-6192-89-7 |edition=2nd (supplemented and expanded) |location=Ljubljana |pages=3–6, 55–61, 307–322}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Siter |first=Daniel |date=2019-08-26 |title=Reka Sotla kot okupacijska meja med nemškim rajhom in NDH: primer občine Rogaška Slatina |url=https://kronika.zzds.si/kronika/article/view/370 |journal=Kronika: časopis za slovensko krajevno zgodovino |issue=Letn. 67, št. 1 (2019) |pages=141–164 |issn=0023-4923 |access-date=2023-09-20}}</ref>

==Culture==
The municipality is home to the cultural organization ''KUD Kumrovec''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kumrovec.hr/kud-kumrovec-2/|title=KUD Kumrovec|work=kumrovec.hr|accessdate=6 September 2015}}</ref> It has two Catholic chapels: ''Kapela sv. Rok'' built in 1963 and ''Kapela Majke Božje Snježne'' built in 1639.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090327191203/http://www.zagorjepublic.com/informativni_vodie/Vodie_2005-Kumrovec.pdf Kumrovec]}}</ref>

==Demographics==
According to the 2021 census, the municipality had a total population of 1,412 in ten separate settlements:<ref name="Census 2021"/>
* [[Donji Škrnik]], population 148
* [[Dugnjevec]], population 65
* [[Kladnik]], population 110
* '''Kumrovec''', population 245
* [[Podgora, Krapina-Zagorje County|Podgora]], population 34
* [[Ravno Brezje]], population 202
* [[Razdrto Tuheljsko]], population 74
* [[Razvor]], population 186
* [[Risvica]], population 258
* [[Velinci]], population 90

{{Croatian population data graph |censuses=HRV |entered=2025-07-15 |entity=Kumrovec |p1857=1999 |p1869=2248 |p1880=2425 |p1890=2596 |p1900=2616 |p1910=2920 |p1921=2778 |p1931=2739 |p1948=2595 |p1953=2459 |p1961=2246 |p1971=2174 |p1981=1981 |p1991=1914 |p2001=1854 |p2011=1588 |p2021=1412}}

==Administration==
The current mayor of Kumrovec is Robert Šplajt (HNS) and the Kumrovec Municipal Council consists of 9 seats.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
| Groups
| Councilors per group
|-
| [[Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats|HNS]]
| {{Composition bar|6|9|hex={{party color|Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats}}}}
|-
| [[Independent politician|Independents]]
| {{Composition bar|2|9|hex={{party color|Independent politician}}}}
|-
| [[Croatian Democratic Union|HDZ]]
| {{Composition bar|1|9|hex={{party color|Croatian Democratic Union}}}}
|-
| align=left colspan=30 |<small>Source:<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.izbori.hr/site/UserDocsImages/2025/Lokalni%20izbori%202025/Rezultati/2%20krug/Z02_KRAPINSKO_ZAGORSKA_ZUPANIJA.pdf | publisher = State Election Committee of the Republic of Croatia | title = II. KRAPINSKO-ZAGORSKA ŽUPANIJA | access-date = 15 July 2025}}</ref></small>
|}

==Notable people==

*[[Josip Broz Tito]], Socialist leader of [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] from 1945 until his death in 1980

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Kumrovec-TitoHouse.JPG|Marshal Tito's birth house
File:Titoaugustincic.jpg|Tito's statue in Kumrovec, made by the sculptor [[Antun Augustinčić]] (1900-1979)
File:Obelisk himna Zelenjak.jpg|Monument to the [[Croatian anthem]]
File:Spomenik palim borcima-Kumrovec.JPG|Monument to the fallen fighters of the [[Yugoslav Partisans|National Liberation struggle]] in the area of Kumrovec
File:Staro selo 18.JPG|One of the scenes at the Ethnological Museum in Kumrovec
File:Memorial Home of Kumrovec 02.jpg|Former [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia|Communist Party of Yugoslavia]] political school in Kumrovec. 
</gallery>

==References==
{{reflist}}

== Further reading ==

* {{cite journal |last=Siter |first=Daniel |author-link=:sl:Daniel Siter |title=Reka Sotla kot okupacijska meja med nemškim rajhom in NDH: primer občine Rogaška Slatina |journal=Kronika: časopis za slovensko krajevno zgodovino |year=2019 |volume=67 |issue=1 |pages=141–164 |issn=0023-4923 |url=https://kronika.zzds.si/kronika/article/view/370 |id={{COBISS|69148258}} |language=sl}}
* {{cite book |last=Siter |first=Daniel |author-link=:sl:Daniel Siter |title=Rogaška Slatina pod kljukastim križem: Zdravilišče med okupacijo 1941–1945. |edition=2 |location=Ljubljana |publisher=[[Alma Mater Europaea]], {{ill|Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis|sl|Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis - Fakulteta za podiplomski humanistični študij, Ljubljana}} |year=2023 |number=XV |isbn=978-961-6192-89-7 |id={{COBISS|143986691}}}}

==External links==
{{commons category|Kumrovec}}
* [http://www.kumrovec.hr/ Official site]

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