# Gomirje

Gomirje is a settlement in north-western Croatia, situated at the far east of the mountainous region of Gorski kotar in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. It is part of the Vrbovsko municipality. The population is 343 (as of the 2011 census).

## History

In 1933, Chetnik formations were organised on the territory of Srpske Moravice, Gomirje and Lička Jesenica. They had a minor political influence until 1941 when a large number of them were killed in the first wave of liquidations.$^{:346}$
In May 1941, the Ustaša government began targeting known and suspected JRZ members with arrests. The prominent JRZ members in Gomirje at the time were Vlado Mrvoš, Petar Musulin, Bogdan Mamula and Miloš Trbović.$^{:352}$
In late May, the Ustaše arrested a number of villagers from Gomirje were and imprisoned them in the Ogulin castle, transferred on 6 June to the Danica concentration camp, and finally the Jadovno concentration camp.$^{:355}$
A 2 July was issued order for all Velike župe, including that of Modruš (with seat in Ogulin), to make room for 2500 Slovenes each, who were to occupy the homes of 2500 Serbs, to be deported to the GMS, prioritising businessmen and merchants. Gomirje was to accommodate 250 Slovenes. As of mid-July, there were not enough empty Serb homes to accommodate the exchange. The kotarski načelnik complained that Gomirje had been confiscatd by the state and that the monastery was going to be used as a livestock station, emphasising the need to "first deport all Serbs, and then import the Slovenes" (Croatian: prvo iseliti sve Srbe, a potom naseliti Slovence).$^{:365}$
On 9 June 1941, according to the memory of the sole surviving Gomirje monk, father Nektarije Dazgić, the Ustaše arrived by surprise from Ogulin in a truck, besieged the monastery, drove the monks into their cells and questioned them about money and the keys to the monastery coffers. After beating them, they transported them to Ogulin. Any remaining monks of Gomirje were arrested in late June and early July. In early July, the hegumen and four monks had not yet been sent away. As of a 15 July document, all Orthodox priests from Gomirje had been sent to concentration camps. At Danica, Dazgić recalled seeing almost the entire ecclesiastical court of Plaški, and a total of more than 30 priests.$^{:359,360}$
In the context of deportations of families to the GMS through Sisak concentration camp during the planned Slovene-Serb ethnic exchange, the općinsko poglavarstvo of Gomirje wrote that all men of Gomirje from age 16 up had fled into the forests in fear of the Ustaše, so that the općina did not know which houses had been emptied and which were only temporarily empty.$^{:367}$
On 30 July, many Serbs from Ogulin and the surrounding villages were arrested at the market in Ogulin. The second uncle of Milka Bunjevac, a Vučinić with a prominent job at the railway station, was to be arrested that day, but he was warned by an Ustaša that he should flee "wherever he knows" (Croatian: kamo god zna) because that night he would be arrested. Vučinić then boarded a train from Ogulin to Gomirje, arriving at his sister's house around midnight and then fleeing to the GMS two or three days later.$^{:361}$

## Demographics

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## Population

As of its foundation on 3 March 2008, it is the seat of a local committee [hr] encompassing Musulini, Majer and Kamensko.

## Politics

Presidents of local committee:
* Nikola Mamula (2008)
* Rade Mrvoš (2009)
* Đurđica Polovina (2013, 2017)
* Nemanja Musulin (2021), Independent
In 2020, the option of dividing Vrbovsko into 4 municipalities (Croatian: općine) was being considered, one being Gomirje.

## Infrastructure

Gomirje has a post office,$^{:24}$ an infirmary, an Udaljeni pretplatnički stupanj (UPS).$^{:24}$
The water storage unit in Kosanovići, with a capacity of 100 cubic metres (3,500 cu ft) at an elevation of 528.3 metres (1,733 ft), uses on the Draškovac pumping station at 356.62 metres (1,170.0 ft), with 9.5 l/s flow. It is responsible for Gomirje.

## Sights

* Gomirje Monastery - the westernmost Orthodox monastery

## Notable natives and residents

* Lazar Mamula (1795-1878) - baron, general in the general in Austro-Hungarian army and governor of Dalmatia
* Bogdan Mamula (1918-2002) - antifascist, partisan and People's Hero of Yugoslavia
* Desanka Đorđević (1927-2011) - dancer and folk dance choreographer in the National Ensemble of Folk Dances and Songs of Serbia, Ensemble "Kolo"