KAJKAVIAN PARLIAMENT - Association for Promotion of Science and Arts
Abstract
Cilj je ovoga rada prikazati adventske i božićne običaje u Gračanima kraj Zagreba u XX. stoljeću. Gračani se prvi put spominju u 1334. u popisu sela koja su dužna plaćati desetinu zagrebačkoj crkvi. U geografskom smislu pripadaju regiji Zagrebačko Prigorje. U članku se opisuju običaji u adventu i božićnom vremenu kroz XX. stoljeće. Promjene koje nastaju u običajima nastaju zbog blizine grada Zagreba, te odnosa selo – grad. Socijalna i društvena struktura Gračana mijenja se te zbog blizine grada Gračani sve više postaju urbanizirani, a manje ruralni prostor. Prikazuju se promjene koje nastaju uoči i nakon Drugog svjetskog rata, ali i relativno uspješan pokušaj obnavljanja starih običaja krajem XX. i početkom XXI. stoljeća, kada lokalna zajednica postaje svjesna značajnosti kulturne, povijesne i etnografske baštine. Članak je većim dijelom temeljen na neobjavljenim spomenicama župe sv. Franje Ksaverskoga, kojoj su Gračani pripadali od 1942. do 1983. godine.The target of this paper is to describe 20th century Advent and Christmas customs at Gračani near Zagreb . The Gračani settlement is first mentioned in 1334, in the list of villages obliged to pay the desetina (tithe) to the Zagreb church. Geographically the settlement belongs to the Zagrebačko Prigorje region. Advent and Christmas days customs throughout the 20th century are described in the paper. Modifications of such customs take place due to the city of Zagreb\u27s vicinity and the village-versus-city relationship. The social and public structure of Gračani changes because it is in the city\u27s vicinity and and the Gračani settlement become a more urbanized and a less rural area. The undergoing changes on the eve of World War II and those in the war after-period are described, and also the relatively successful efforts to resume with old customs at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries when the local community becomes aware of the significance of cultural, historical and ethnographic heritage. The majority of the writing in the paper is based on unpublished records of the Sveti Franjo Ksaverski (St. Francis) parish to which the Gračani settlement belonged from 1942 till 1983
