Goričko
Goričko is a region in Slovenia .
location
Goričko is located in the hilly part of the historical Prekmurje region (Übermurgebiet). It belongs to the Pomurska Statistical Region . The 462 km² region borders on Austria and Hungary . It includes the eleven municipalities of Cankova , Dobrovnik , Gornji Petrovci , Grad , Hodoš , Kobilje , Kuzma , Moravske Toplice , Puconci , Rogašovci and Šalovci . The Sotinski breg is at 418 m. i. J. the highest elevation. In the south of the area is the flood retention basin and Natura 2000 area Ledavsko jezero .
history
The Goričko region was forested throughout for a very long time and therefore never very densely populated. Already in the earliest times people settled this gentle hill world and named it Goričko, after gorice , the Slovenian word for vineyards. At the turn of the century, a third of the total population had emigrated when phylloxera destroyed almost all of the vines.
On October 9, 2003, the Krajinski Park Goričko Nature Park was founded. It encloses all eleven communities. The park's visitor center is at Grad Castle , one of the largest castles in Slovenia. The park borders the Hungarian Őrség National Park in the north and the Austrian Raab Nature Park in the west. Together they form the transnational, 1044 km² large nature park Raab-Őrség-Goričko .
literature
- Tina Bahovec, Theodor Domej: The Austrian-Italian-Slovenian triangle: causes and consequences of the nation-state tripartite division of a region. Publisher Mohorjeva Hermagoras, 2006, ISBN 9783708601632 .
