Bärental (Carinthia)

Location of the Bärental

View of the Bärental from the high chair - the Drau and thus the Rosental can be seen in the background. Dominating is the Matschacher Gupf ( 1691 m ).

The Bärental ( Slov. Rute means " Rauten " or Zavrh means "Behind the Mountain") is an approx. 7 km long valley in the Karawanken in the south of Carinthia , named after the many bears that existed there in the past and also today - immigrated from Slovenia - there are still a few. It lies in the area of the municipality Feistritz (Slov. Bistrica ). In the local area of Feistritz, at the entrance to Bärental, there is a large industrial site on which the bear batteries were previously produced.

With the Bärensattel, the Bärental (Slov. Medvedji dol ) has a transition to the Upper Carniola , which, however, has never been expanded with a road. The path leads through a narrow gorge towards the Rosental , into which it drains .

The Hochstuhl (Slov. Stol ), the highest mountain in the Karawanken, is accessible from Bärental . In addition to numerous other hiking options, there are also crossings into the Bodental .

The valley had its own school until the post-war period; today it is largely empty of its population. In the valley floor there is the Stouhütte inn (as it is pronounced in Slovenian "Stol") as the starting point for numerous hikes. At the head of the valley, within sight of a picturesque alpine village, lies the Klagenfurter Hütte , an Alpine club house .

Republic of Bärental

The property of the family of Jörg Haider , who was the governor of Carinthia until his death on October 11, 2008, is located in Bärental . Joerg Haider had approximately 1,600 hectares inherited a large estate in Bärental in the 1980s by the son of his great-uncle, the possession during the Nazi regime by the widow of the original Jewish-Italian owner Roifer as part of the " Aryanization bought" at a low price would have. Giorgo Roifer, a money lender from Pisa, acquired the Bärentaler property from the Helldorf family in 1929. In 1954 there was another payment to his descendants of 120,000 US dollars. In the politically satirical parlance of the Austrians, “Republic Bärental” stood temporarily for Haider's possession or exemplarily for Haider's Carinthia per se or for an Austria according to Haider's controversial ideas.

literature

Ingrid Kaiser-Kaplaner: Through the Bärental to the Klagenfurter Hütte. From the history of the Bärental and the Klagenfurter Hütte, accompanied by recollections told by contemporary witnesses, Klagenfurt 2010, Hermagoras Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7086-0522-7 .
Peter Melichar , Aryanizations and liquidations in the paper and wood sector, in: Ulrike Felber and others, Economics of Aryanization. Part 2: Economic sectors, industries, case studies (= publications of the Austrian Historical Commission 10/2), Vienna 2004, pp. 279–741, here pp. 603–616 (“Case study: sawmill and manor Feistritz im Rosental”).

Web links

How the Bärental was "de-Jewised" by the Nazis and how Jörg Haider came into his possession

Individual evidence

↑ Der Standard: Friends and relatives at family prayer in Bärental. October 12, 2008, accessed January 3, 2016 .
^ Ralf Leonhard: Jörg Haider's brown hereditary burden . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 14, 2000, ISSN 0931-9085 , p. 8 ( taz.de [accessed on April 21, 2018]).

46.467694444444 14.154083333333Coordinates: 46 ° 28 ′ 3.7 ″ N , 14 ° 9 ′ 14.7 ″ E

[1] Der Standard: Friends and relatives at family prayer in Bärental. October 12, 2008, accessed January 3, 2016 .

[2] Ralf Leonhard: Jörg Haider's brown hereditary burden . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 14, 2000, ISSN 0931-9085 , p. 8 ( taz.de [accessed on April 21, 2018]).