Križevci during ‘the spring of nations’ 1848-

U radu se na temelju pisane i arhivske građe te relevantne historiografske literature pružaju podaci o gradu Križevcima i Križevačkoj županiji tijekom preporodnih gibanja 1848./1849. godine u Trojednoj Kraljevini Hrvatskoj, Slavoniji i Dalmaciji. Autor u radu pokazuje kako su ti revolucionarni događaji potakli jaču nacionalnu, socijalnu i vojnu aktivnost (protiv mađarske opasnosti) na području grada i županije, te koje su snage kočile te procese. Grad Križevci i Križevačka županija sa svojim snažnim “ilirskim krugom” bili su značajni sudionici hrvatskog nacionalnog pokreta 1848./1849. godine. U gradu su postojale dvije političke struje koje su različito gledale na revolucionarne promjene u Europi i Hrvatskoj. Prva, “narodnjačko-građanska” koja je htjela ishoditi povoljnije uvjete za seljake pri uki- danju kmetskih odnosa i tražila veću demokratizaciju političkog sustava i druga, koja je tome pristupala s “konzervativnog stajališta”, da plemstvo i pripadnici konzervativnog krila “gašparievacaha” u tim promjenama što manje izgube. Prema toj struji promjene su nužne, ali se moraju provoditi postupno, uz obvezno obeštećenje oštećene strane. Dalje se opisuju vojne pripreme za borbu protiv Mađara i velikomađarske politike u Križevcima i Križevačkoj županiji i donose dopisi s Dravskog kordona poznatog križevačkog ilirca Ljudevita Vukotinovića “majora narodne straže”. Na kraju se prenose reak- cije iz Križevaca nakon sloma hrvatskog političkog pokreta te revolucionarne 1848./1849. godine.The paper gives specific information on the town and its surroundings during the Revival of 1848-1849 in the ‘triune’ kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia. The revolution raised strong national, social and military actions and brought to light the forces hindering the process of change. The city of Križevci and the whole county with their powerful ‘Illyrian circle’ were significant factors in the Croatian National Move- ment 1848/49. There existed two political fractions with different approach to revolutionary changes. One, so called ‘ national- bourgeois’ wanted to get favourable terms for peasants and farmers after abolishing serf system and asked for greater democratization of political system. The other fraction was more conservative, hoping that ar- istocracy and members of ‘gašparievacah’ would lose as little as possible of their privileges. Further in the text are described military preparations for the fight against the Hungarians and Hungarian expansion in Križevci and the county. The work cites a letter from the Drava cor- don written by Ljudevit Vukotinović, well-known Illyrian, ‘mayor of the national guard’. Despite the collapse of Croatian political movement, the very town of Križevci and the county were equal with other participants of the spring of nations thus encouraging a stronger national and political integration of the people in the region. The pow- erful ‘Illyrian circle’ of local writers and patriots played an important role even outside the county through articles and comments in contemporary newspapers Slavenski jug, Novine dalmatinsko- hervatsko-slavonske and by contributing to devel- opment of Croatian political ideas led mostly by Ljudevit Vukotinović