Velika Gorica is first mentioned as a village 1228th year. It gained in importance after the 1560th when he was granted the status Turopolje Preferred noble community. In 1610th was built in Velika Gorica wooden palace of the Noble community Turopolje. In the Middle Ages, Velika Gorica became the center of the parish. The medieval church was destroyed in the Turkish invasions, and the new built in the second half of the 17th century.
In the history of the main economic activity was trade Velika Gorica, on the main square, regularly held trade fairs. The entire area has been developed in addition to trade livestock and forestry. The first school was built in the 18th century, but after several decades of dilapidation and destroyed for lack of interest by the local population for education. Construction of the first railway in Croatia 1862nd years, the one between Zagreb and Sisak, had significance for the wider area, but not particularly for the Velika Gorica, since the train station is located far from its center.
Stronger economic growth of Velika Gorica is experiencing in the late 19th and early 20 century, when the area around the main squares and urbanizira gradually builds. The old square in front of City Hall and the church is called a horse because the square on it traded horses, while the King Tomislav Square Marvinskim called because the market there cattle. Rich merchants raise a number of houses (Tarbuk, Trdak, Cop, Rosner, Janes, Fanton, Brigljević), which is formed as a center of Velika Gorica settlement. Noble turopoljska Municipality initiated a whole series of public projects, especially in the age of Louis county Josipovic. Then when the building area of the County, District Court, First Savings Bank Croatia, public hospitals, building schools in Zagreb and Kurilovečkoj street, and hired the villa for the head of the County area and Turopolje forestry superintendent. The most famous architect of that time was Nicholas Hribar, who built most of the buildings. In 1901. lives in Velika Gorica 1041 resident. The start of public transportation in a horse-drawn trams, ie, konjac, which has since 1907. until 1937. connected with the center of Velika Gorica railway stations and industrial plants in New Čiče.
The development site was interrupted by World War II, after which performs intensive building blocks of flats, and Velika Gorica Zagreb becomes a satellite town ring. 1974. Velika Gorica Zagreb is becoming one of the municipalities. Status of the city gets 1995th year.
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