Lovačka kuća Vodice
The place
Lovačka kuća Vodice ("Vodice Hunting Lodge") in western Slavonia, Voćin/Slatina sector (Papuk, eastern Croatia, Croatia), at 665 m altitude, Papuk range 953 m. Continuous Croatia cluster (batches 232-346, ~15 entries). Lovačka kuća (hunting lodge of the HŠV, the Croatian Hunting Federation, 40,000 hunters, 1925 tradition of Habsburg-Yugoslav origin), located near Papuk Nature Park (300 km², UNESCO Global Geopark 2007, Miocene volcanism 15 M years + beech-hornbeam forests of Slavonia) and in Slavonia (eastern Croatia, Pannonian plain between the Danube and Sava, historically under Ottoman occupation 1526-1699 then Habsburg German colonization 18th c., Volksdeutsche deported in 1945, 200,000 Podunavske Švabe).
The setting
Western Slavonia Voćin/Slatina Papuk 953 m eastern Croatia 665 m, continuous cluster batches 232-346 ~15 entries, HŠV 40,000 hunters 1925 Habsburg-Yugoslav, Papuk Nature Park 300 km² UNESCO Global Geopark 2007 Miocene volcanism 15 M years beech-hornbeam forests, Slavonia Pannonian plain Danube-Sava 1526-1699 Ottoman then Volksdeutsche 1945 200,000 deported.
