{{Infobox settlement | official_name = Lesci | settlement_type = Village | image_skyline = Lesci(Breg).jpg | image_caption = Lesci in the first half of the 20th century. | mapframe = yes | mapframe-wikidata = yes | mapframe-zoom = 9 | pushpin_map = Croatia | coordinates = {{coord|45.423968|15.125206}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{flag|Croatia}} | subdivision_type2 = County | subdivision_name2 = Primorje-Gorski Kotar County | subdivision_type3 = City | subdivision_name3 = Vrbovsko | subdivision_type4 = Community | subdivision_name4 = Lukovdol | area_footnotes = <ref>{{Cite Q|Q119585703|mode=cs1}}</ref> | area_total_km2 = 0.2 | area_land_km2 = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 178 | elevation_ft = | population_footnotes = <ref name="Census 2021">{{Croatian Census 2021|S}}</ref> | population_as_of = 2021 | population_total = 0 | population_density_km2 = auto | population_urban = | population_density_urban_km2 = | timezone = CET | timezone_DST = CEST | utc_offset = +1 | utc_offset_DST = +2 | postal_code_type = Postal code | postal_code = 51326 | area_code = +385 051 }}
'''Lesci''' is a village in Croatia, under the Vrbovsko township, in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. It is a ghost town.
==History== Ivan Goran Kovačić wrote a poem about the accordion players of Lesci titled "Petr Breški harmonikaš": {{div col|colwidth=25em}} <poem>Ako se je jókal ali smèjal Zaprta bila vusta so i oči, - Z harmoniko je svoje soze lèjal, Čez tipke njeje smeh se njegov tòčil. Njegòvo dušo imal njeji meh, Njegòvo srce, njegov vzdih i smeh. I celi život bil mu je popêvka, Cel život tan'c, svati, pirovânje, Muzìkal do svojèga je sršetka, - I na oblâke š'l je v svatovânje... To znadó sì: da je Petr Breški Pri ajngeli hàrmonikâš nebêški. To ní izmìslil nigdo, to so glasi Od Boga prišli o mrtvâčke maše: Čim plòvan zapopêval "Bože, spasi!" Zagrmèle orgùlje so naše Na tan'c - kudi muzìke Petròve - I ko da celo selo v nebo zove!</poem><ref>{{cite book |date=1945 |editor-first=Dragutin |editor-last=Tadijanović |first=Ivan Goran |last=Kovačić |title=Ognji i rože |edition=1st |location=Zagreb}}</ref> {{div col end}}
In December 1942,<ref>{{cite web |date=2019-05-09 |orig-date=December 1942 |first=Vladimir |last=Nazor |title=Čamac na Kupi |url=https://radiogornjigrad.blog/2019/05/09/vladimir-nazor-camac-na-kupi |website=Radio Gornji Grad}}</ref> Ivan Goran Kovačić crossed the Kupa at Lesci in Matija Paviša's{{efn|''Općinski bilježnik'' and legal representative of {{ill|Vladimir Arko|hr|Vladimir Arko}}.}} boat together with Vladimir Nazor on their way to join the Yugoslav Partisans. The news was featured on the BBC.<ref name="Mrš2013">{{cite news |date=2013-05-04 |first=Mladen |last=Marušić |title=GORSKA PISMA (ČITATELJA): I dvorce ubijaju, zar ne? |url=https://gorskenovosti.net/2013/05/04/gorska-pisma-citatelja-i-dvorce-ubijaju-zar-ne |newspaper=Gorske novosti}}</ref>
The 2014 Dinaric ice storm permanently blocked the old two-track dirt bridle path from Lesci to Košac.
In 2014 and 2015, the gravel road from Riblje by Severin na Kupi to Lesci was completed and equipped with benches.<ref>{{cite news |date=2015-01-15 |author=GN |title=U Gradu Vrbovskom: Potpisan Ugovor o izradi projektne dokumentacije za uređenje doline rijeke Kupe u turističke svrhe i uređenje šetnice |url=https://gorskenovosti.net/2015/01/15/u-gradu-vrbovskom-potpisan-ugovor-o-izradi-projektne-dokumentacije-za-uredenje-doline-rijeke-kupe-u-turisticke-svrhe-i-uredenje-setnice |newspaper=Gorske novosti}}</ref>
==Demographics== As of 2011, it was one of four uninhabited statistical villages in Vrbovsko, along with Međedi, Podvučnik and Radočaj.<ref>{{cite news |date=2011-06-29 |first=Nensi |last=Tatar |title=Crni preliminarni rezultati popisa stanovništva: "Umiru" Skrad, Vrbovsko, Fužine i Mrkopalj – Delnice goranski lider |url=https://gorskenovosti.net/2011/06/29/crni-preliminarni-rezultati-popisa-stanovnistva-umiru-skrad-vrbovsko-fuzine-i-mrkopalj-delnice-goranski-lider |newspaper=Gorske novosti}}</ref> These were followed by Gornji Vukšići.<ref name="Census 2021">{{Croatian Census 2021|S}}</ref> {{Croatian population data graph |popisi=HRV |upisano=2022-09-24 |područje=Village of Lesci |p1857=0 |p1869=24 |p1880=16 |p1890=20 |p1900=21 |p1910=17 |p1921=21 |p1931=26 |p1948=23 |p1953=24 |p1961=17 |p1971=0 |p1981=0 |p1991=0 |p2001=0 |p2011=0 |p2021=0 |napomena=A statistical village since 1869, under the name Brijeg from 1869 to 1900.}}
===Further reading=== * {{cite book |date=1903 |author=Kraljevski zemaljski statistički ured |publisher=Kraljevska hrvatsko-slavonsko-dalmatinska zemaljska vlada, 🖶 Kraljevska zemaljska tiskara |title=Političko i sudbeno razdieljenje i Repertorij prebivališta Kraljevina Hrvatske i Slavonije po stanju od 1. travnja 1903. |location=Zagreb}} * {{cite book |date=May 1913 |author=Kraljevski zemaljski statistički ured |publisher=Kraljevska hrvatsko-slavonsko-dalmatinska zemaljska vlada, 🖶 Kraljevska zemaljska tiskara |chapter=Repertorij prebivališta po županijama, upravnim kotarima, gradovima, upravnim i poreznim općinama |pages=1–126 |title=Političko i sudbeno razdjeljenje i Repertorij prebivališta Kraljevina Hrvatske i Slavonije po stanju od 1. siječnja 1913. |url=https://library.foi.hr/dbook/index.php?B=1&item=X00437 |location=Zagreb}} Page 33.
==Politics== As of its foundation on 3 March 2008, it belongs to the {{ill|Local committee|lt=local committee|hr|Mjesni odbor}} of Lukovdol.<ref>{{cite news |date=2008-03-14 |first=Slavko |last=Medved |title=Statut Grada Vrbovskog (pročišćeni tekst) |url=http://www.sn.pgz.hr/default.asp?Link=odluke&id=14181 |newspaper=Službene novine: Službeno glasilo Primorsko-goranske županije |volume=16 |issue=8}}</ref>
==Dialect== According to local former resident Lidija Žagar, the dialect of Lesci differed somewhat from the dialect of Lukovdol significantly in accent and vocabulary, but without being closer to dialects across the river.<ref name="Bkv2024">{{cite journal |date=2024-07-01 |first1=Matijas |last1=Baković |first2=Marina |last2=Perić Kaselj |first3=Filip |last3=Škiljan |title=Suživot Hrvata i Slovenaca uz srednji tok Kupe na hrvatsko-slovenskoj granici |pages=91–122 |doi=10.5673/sip.62.1.5 |journal=Sociologija i prostor: časopis za istraživanje prostornoga i sociokulturnog razvoja |eissn=1849-0387 |volume=61 |issue=1 |doi-access=free}}</ref>{{rp|108}}
==Gallery== <gallery> Ostaci mlina (malanice).jpg|Remains of the mill Breg 2009.JPG|Remains of the weir </gallery>
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==Bibliography== * {{cite book |date=1979 |first=Mirko |last=Korenčić |title=Naselja i stanovništvo Socijalističke Republike Hrvatske (1857–1971) |series=Djela Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti |volume=54 |language=sh |trans-title=Villages and Population of the Socialist Republic of Croatia (1857–1971)}}
{{Vrbovsko municipality}}
Category:Populated places in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County
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