Louisiana road (Croatia)

Louisiana road
Route information
Length141 km (88 mi)
Existed1809–present
Major junctions
FromRijeka
ToKarlovac
Location
CountryCroatia
Highway system
A milestone on Lujzijana near the village of Nadvučnik

The Louisiana road (Croatian: Lujzijana, Lujzinska cesta) is a roadway in Croatia, built between 1803 and 1812 by an association of noble families (Lichtenstein, Dietrichstein, Esterházy, Harrach, Batthyány, Anna Maria Erdődy) and designed by Josef Philipp Vukassovich.[1] The road was finished by the French Empire. It is named after Napoleon's second wife Marie Louise.[2]

It linked Rijeka with Karlovac through Grobničko polje, Kamenjak, Gornje Jelenje, Lokve, Delnice, Skrad, Stubica, Severin na Kupi, and Netretić.[2] The length of the Louisiana road was 18 Austrian miles (1 mile = 7.585 km). It was about 8 m wide (26 Wiener Fuß). It was the shortest route between Rijeka and Karlovac, and was one of the most modern roads in the empire. With the building of the Lujzijana, the Karolina road became less important.[3]

References

  1. ^ Darstellung der von Karlstadt nach Fiume führenden Luisenstraße, und ihrer Verhältnisse zu dem ungarischen Exportationshandel (In German), 1850, p. 1–3 (Google Books).
  2. ^ a b Boris Banovac; Robert Blažević; Željko Boneta. "Modernizacija (i/ili europeizacija) hrvatske periferije – primjeri Istre, Like i Gorskog Kotara" [Modernization (and/or Europeization) of Croatian Periphery – Examples of Istria, Lika and Gorski Kotar]. Revija za sociologiju (in Croatian). Croatian Sociological Association: 113–141. ISSN 0350-154X. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
  3. ^ Tomiša, Adriana (2020-04-23). "Lujzijana – od najznačajnije prometnice u povijesti do turističke atrakcije". Geotech. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
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