Belišće

Belišće
Town
Town of Belišće Grad Belišće
Belišće Location of Belišće in Croatia
Belišće Location of Belišće in Osijek-Baranja County
Coordinates:
Country	Croatia
County	Osijek-Baranja County
Government
• Mayor	Dinko Burić (HDSSB)
Area
• Town	69 km2 (27 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Town	10,825
• Urban	6,518
Time zone	Central European Time (UTC+1)

Belišće (pronounced [bɛ̌liːʃtɕɛ]) is a town in Croatia, located in the region of Slavonia, Osijek-Baranja County, at the altitude of 93 m. The population of the city is 6,518 (2011), with 10,825 in the municipality. In 2001 census, the majority were Croats. This industrial town upon the Drava river lies near the border with Hungary north from here.

Chief occupations are forestry, timber and wood processing, (sawmill, chemical and mechanical wood processing), corrugated fiberboard, metal industry, chemicals and synthetic material processing.

The influential Gutmann family made a significant impact on the Belišće region in the 19th and 20th century. Once vast Slavonian oak forests were mostly replaced with farmland, and a section of the working-class quarters of Salamon H. Gutmann from 1884 became part of the present-day Belišće.

Major recreational activities include angling, rowing kayak and canoe on the Drava, river and its backwaters and hunting in the broader surroundings.

The settlements in the administrative area are:

• Belišće, population 6,518
• Bistrinci, population 1,598
• Bocanjevci, population 457
• Gat, population 705
• Gorica Valpovačka, population 165
• Kitišanci, population 150
• Tiborjanci, population 291
• Veliškovci, population 685
• Vinogradci, population 256

See also

• Edmund Gutmann
• Viktor Gutmann

External links

• Official site