Rogač

Rogač

Coordinates: 43 ° 23 ′ 44 ″ N , 16 ° 17 ′ 52 ″ E

Basic data

State :

Croatia

County :

Split-Dalmatia

Island :

Šolta

Height :

0 m. i. J.

Residents :

110 (2011)

Telephone code :

(+385) 021

Postal code :

21430 Grohote

License plate :

ST

Structure and administration
(as of 2017)

Community type :

Village

Mayor :

Nikola Cecić-Karuzić (candidate Grupe Birača)

Postal address :

Podkuća 8
Grohote

Website :

www.solta.hr

South side of the bay

Western bay towards Grohote

The buses are waiting in the ferry port

View towards the mainland

Cottages at the eastern entrance to the bay

Entrance to the bay

Rogač is the main port of the island or municipality of Šolta in the Croatian Split-Dalmatia County in the Adriatic opposite Split west of Brač . Car ferries also dock in the small port town with port authority, car and boat filling stations . Rogač belongs to Grohote and has 110 inhabitants.

geography

The place is connected to the mainland ( Split ) by car ferries and catamaran ferries . It is 1.5 km from the island’s main town, Grohote, on the D111 state road. Buses run from Rogač via Grohote to Srednje selo, Donje Selo to Maslinica or to Nečujam , Gornje Selo and Stomorska . The area around the bay belongs to the place. The bays are called Banje, Kasjun or Zusatzova.

economy

Rogač is the main port of Šolta with the seat of the port authority, a marina and a gas station for cars and ships. The place lives from tourism. There is a tourist information office, a few restaurants and around 30 private quarters to the right and left of the bay. Fishing is no longer an issue today.

history

The island of Šolta was owned by the Split nobility and the Catholic Church from the 14th century to 1905 . The proximity to the city, approx. 17 km by boat, made the island an important supplier of wood, lime, meat, fish, oil, wine, almonds, carob , figs and honey. As the port of the largest town on the island, Grohote, olive oil and wine were transported to Italy by wooden sailors, as from Stomorska. Rogač was established at the end of the 18th century as the port of Grohote. The first written mention dates from 1242 as portus qui dicitur Roga . The settlement is certainly much older. There are several prehistoric barrows on the island. There was an Illyrian fortress on Vela Straža . Many ancient finds from the island are exhibited in the Split Archaeological Museum. While people settled on the coast at the time of the almost millennial Roman peace, this became more dangerous again in the Middle Ages. Since the island was in the border area between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice , the risk of looting and raids, especially by the pirates of Omiš, was great, which is why for centuries there were only places in the interior of the island.

The seaport Rogač called on Italian postage carober , the Venetian variant of the word carruba for carob tree on Croatian retranslated Rogač is. Originally there were only fishing huts and taverns in the bay, protected by a two-story, baroque castle.

In the 19th century, the Catholic Church in honor of St. Teresa of Ávila , venerated as a saint , doctor of the church and patroness of the sick. The church patroness, atypical for Dalmatia , is depicted on the baroque altarpiece. Based on the painting it can be assumed that the donor of the picture was an abbot . Presumably it is Jeronim Celsi from the Venetian noble family Celsi , who from 1627 to 1682 was the penultimate titular abbot of the Split Benedictine monastery of St. Stephanus sub plinis , which was connected to the Šoltaran monastery “Madonna under the firs”. Celsi died in 1692 and in his will he made a gift to the church in Rogač. He may also be the builder of the fort.

In the church there is a memorial plaque for the Polish president and dictator (1926–1935) of the Second Polish Republic , Marshal Józef Piłsudski . It was temporarily removed during World War II as the area belonged to a hotel frequented by wealthy Poles. The votive picture in the church for a ship sinking in 1939 is worth seeing.

On the opposite side of the harbor there is a kažela or casella like in Stomorska , Maslinica or Straćinska. This little house was used to disinfect ships. At the lower end of the bay, in a pine grove, the Miladinov family's summer resort was built in the 19th century. In the southern bay of Banje there are the remains of a Roman villa rustica from the 3rd to 4th centuries, with walls of thermal baths, swimming pools, mosaic fragments and graves. On the north-western side of the bay you can find remains of walls in the sea, probably those of an ancient port. The sea level has risen by around 1.7 meters in the last 2000 years. There is a small shipyard in the bay, which Frane Cecić founded in 1920 and which is now run by the third generation.

Until the 1970s, the Cecić family ran Bilini in the bay a lobster farm. The lobsters caught over the year were collected in a 10 by 10 meter wooden cage, known as the deposit , for sale at Christmas. The caged lobsters were fed with whipped sea urchins. One night the facility was deliberately destroyed by strangers. The animals escaped and a year of work swam away.

An ethnographic collection can be viewed in the home of Nikola Mateljan, one of the most productive olive growers on the island.

Demographics

Population development 1857–2011
1857	1869	1880	1890	1900	1910	1921	1931	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011
0	0	13	59	0	17th	0	0	0	36	50	49	0	0	100	110

literature

Joško Belamaric: Island of Šolta. Library of Tourism and Heritage. No. 82, Zagreb, 2011. ISBN 978-953-215-697-3
Mladen Andreis: Stanovništvo otoka Šolte do godine 1900. Šolta, Opcina, 2011. ISBN 978-953-55249-1-5 [1]

Web links

Commons : Rogač - collection of images, videos and audio files

Općina Šolta: Šolta Općina Šolta. Retrieved on August 13, 2019 (Croatian, official website of the municipality of Šolta).
Ferry connections Split-Rogač kroati.de (German), croatiaferries.com (English), Jadrolinija jadrolinija.hr (Croatian), all accessed on August 16, 2019