What is "medvescak"

Medveščak may refer to:

• Gornji Grad – Medveščak, city district in Zagreb, Croatia
• Medveščak (stream), a historic creek in central Zagreb, today running underground in the aforementioned city district
• Medveščak (neighborhood), a neighborhood in the aforementioned city district
• RK Medveščak, a handball club based in Zagreb
• KHL Medveščak Zagreb, an ice hockey club based in Zagreb

Medveščak (, also called Crikvenik) is a creek in central Zagreb, Croatia. It flows from Kraljičin zdenac in Podsljeme down along the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain to the Manduševac Fountain, its mouth. The creek was covered in 1898 and today forms part of the Zagreb sewer system. Medveščak has long served as an important geographical feature of historic Zagreb, delineating the border between the often warring twin cities of Gradec (Gornji Grad) and Kaptol between the 11th and the 19th century and causing many violent floods which often decimated houses on its banks. Most of the stream is located in the Gornji Grad - Medveščak city district, running underground under Tkalčićeva and Medvedgradska Streets.

The creek today plays a minor role in the Zagreb sewer system, having ceased powering the Manduševac Fountain in 1882. However, it gave its name to the Medveščak neighborhood.