Rogatec

Rogatec
Basic data
Country	Slovenia
Historic region	Lower Styria / Štajerska
Statistical region	Savinjska (Sann area)
Coordinates	46 ° 13 ′  N , 15 ° 42 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  N , 15 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E
surface	39.6  km²
Residents	3,207 (2008)
Population density	81 inhabitants per km²
Post Code	3252
License Plate	CE
Structure and administration
Mayor :	Martin Mikolič
Website	www.rogatec.net

Strmol Castle

Rogatec (German: Rohitsch in der Steiermark ) is a municipality in the Spodnja Štajerska region in Slovenia .

Population and location

3,207 people live in the total municipality, which consists of nine localities, the main town Rogatec alone has 1,570 inhabitants. The municipality is located in the eastern part of Slovenia directly on the Croatian border, which is formed here by the Sotla (German: Sattelbach ) river that rises in the Log district .

Districts of the entire municipality

• Brezovec pri Rogatcu (German Radelholz )
• Dobovec pri Rogatcu ( Eng.Saint Rochus am Matzel )
• Donačka Gora ( Donatiberg )
• Log (German Loog in Styria )
• Rogatec (German Rohitsch )
• Sveti Jurij (German Sankt Georgen bei Rohitsch )
• Tlake (German Tlaike )
• Trlično (German Terlitschno )
• Žahenberc (German Schlachtenberg )

history

The oldest documents for this place are 1130 Roas, 1192 Rohats, 1234 de Rohatsch u. a. In 1283 the place was mentioned in a document as a market. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the place was mentioned several times as a town because it looked like a small town because of the surrounding wall, the Gornji Rogatec Castle (now in ruins) and the Strmol Castle. Rogatec never received its town charter because it never reached the required number of inhabitants. But thanks to the border location, the market town grew prosperous.

traffic

Rogatec is located on the Grobelno (Slovenia) - Zabok (Croatia) railway . There is currently no continuous passenger train service. There is a minimal cross-border train service to the Croatian border station Đurmanec (two pairs of trains Monday to Friday, one pair of trains on Saturdays; as of the 2015/16 timetable). Trains to Zabok run more frequently from there.

• Train stations
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  Rogatec (train station)
  street side

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  Rogatec (train station)

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  Sveti Rok ob Sotli (train station)

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  Sveti Rok ob Sotli (train station)

Attractions

Strmol Castle, first mentioned in 1436, was extensively renovated in 1995 and today shines in new splendor.

The largest open-air museum in Slovenia is right next to the castle . Here life from the 18th to the 20th century is shown realistically. In 1998 the museum complex was declared a state monument.

sons and daughters of the town

• Mihael Lendovšek , writer and theologian

Web links

Wikisource: Rohitsch in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Website of the Rogatec municipality in Slovenian
• Information about the community
• Rogatec Open Air Museum website (Slovenian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ History
2. ↑ Strmol Castle
3. ↑ Open-air museum Rogatec  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.