By merging the hamlets of Donji Brestovec, Gornji Brestovec and Granchari, today's municipality of Zlatar Bistrica was created. The place was formed next to the mentioned settlements around the newly created railway station on the Zagreb-Varazhdin line in 1911.The station, and thus the settlement that is located nearby, got its name from a combination of the two nearest larger places between which it is located - Zlatar and Marija Bistrica, hence the name Zlatar Bistrica.Since 1962, Zlatar Bistrica has been the largest municipality in Hrvatsko Zagorje with approximately 33,000 inhabitants. The municipal seat was located in the center of Zlatar Bistrica, and the municipality itself included today's towns and municipalities Budinshchina, Hrashchina, Konjshchina, Lobor, Mihovljan, Novi Golubovec, Mache, Zlatar and Zlatar Bistrica.
№179 in Cities of Croatia