Boč (mountain)
| Boč | ||
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 Boč mountain |
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| height | 979 m | |
| location | Slovenia | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 17 '21 " N , 15 ° 35' 58" E | |
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The Boč or Wotsch is a mountain in the Haloze with a height of 979 m above sea level. A. It is 6 km from Poljčane and 14 km from Rogaška Slatina . The area is surrounded by a thick pine and beech forest . The strictly protected pasque flower ( Pulsatilla grandis ) blooms there in March and April . The mountain has two peaks, one of which is a restricted military area. You can recognize this by its transmission mast. There is a 20 m high observation tower on the accessible summit. The entire area around Boč is strictly protected as a landscape park. The ornithologist and forester Otmar Reiser described the trees in the area as early as 1885 .
The so-called Špelka Cave is located at Boč. It is popularly said that the cave owes its name to the famous robber Špelka (= Elisabeth), who is said to have lived here in the 17th century. In truth, it is the South Slavic term »spila, spilka« for »cave«. Nevertheless, the popular myth lives that the robber buried all her treasures in the cave and that it would be impossible to find it, as bad weather would immediately extinguish any torchlight. The robber was beheaded after her arrest in Stattenberg .
literature
- Otmar Reiser: Directory of the woody plants occurring in the area of the KK District Authority Marburg a./Drau including the Donati and Wotsch Mountains . Self-published, Pickern near Marburg 1885.
- Martin Žunkovič: Lower Styria, the original home of the Grail legend . In: Staroslovan; Quarterly publication on the maintenance of the Old Slavic language, history and culture . tape 2 , no. 2 , 1914, p. 106-151 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
- Julius Dreger: About the geological conditions in the area around the Wotsch and Donatiberges in southern Styria . In: Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute . 1883, p. 92-98 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
