Rosalnice

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The churches

Rosalnice (Rosalnitz) is a place in the Slovenian region of Bela krajina and is located approx. 2 km to the east from Metlika (Möttling). There are some old and partly preserved thatched farmhouses in the village. The Croatian village of Bubnjarci is within sight, only separated by the Kupa, which has served as a border river since the 12th century. The steel railway bridge built in 1913 leads here over the river, which continued the track from 1914 towards Karlovac .

The headquarters of the Kolpa sanitary company is located in Rosalnice. The company manufactures medium and high-priced bathrooms and toilets and exports them mainly to Central and Southeastern Europe. It operates a sales and exhibition building in Metlika. Kolpa has around 660 employees, 430 of them in Slovenia. Founded in socialist Yugoslavia, it originally belonged to Novoles. In 1982 it became independent as TOZD Tovarniška oprema. Miran Kulovec was director of the company for twenty-three years.

Attractions

Tri Fare (churches)

Rosalnice is known as a place of pilgrimage , because there is a unique complex of three Gothic churches Tri Fare (Three Parishes), surrounded by a common wall. It is the most important art monument of Bela krajina . The first churches were built in the 2nd half of the 12th century by the Knights Templar residing in Metlika . In 1469 this complex was set on fire and destroyed by the advancing Turks .

  • The (northern) Church of Our Lady of Mourning consists of a completely Baroque-style nave with a vault instead of the flat ceiling and a rib-vaulted choir with a polygonal end (around 1400). The main portal is Gothic. The beautiful frescoes inside reflect the late Baroque style (1842, J. Egartner ). The interior of the church is of valuable late baroque furnishings from the 2nd half of the 18th century.
  • The (central) church Ecce homo consists of a rectangular nave, which was expanded into a domed octagon in the Baroque era , and a cross-rib vaulted choir with a polygonal end (end of the 15th century). The frescoes in the dome were painted by J. Tavčar from Idrija in the late baroque style.
  • The (southern) Church of Our Lady consists of a nave, which was converted into three naves in the 19th century, and a polygonal, almost round final choir with a ribbed vault (15th century). In the choir there is a beautiful late Gothic sanctuary ; outside there are still traces of Gothic frescoes. The oldest surviving organ is also located here, built by the master organ builder Jonnes Georgius Eisel in 1753.

The old cemetery, which encompasses the churches, is an experience for genealogists from the USA.

Božakovo

The country road coming from Metlika continues to the border with Croatia via the village Božakovo (Sankt Magdalenen), approx. 1 km away, with its beautiful church. Also worth seeing is the breakthrough of the Kupa below the village in a westerly direction.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M. Bezek Jakše, Zamenjava na vrhu rosalniške Kolpe (German: change at the top of the Rosalnica company Kolpa), Dolensjki list, 12. 12. 2019, p. 14

Coordinates: 45 ° 39 '  N , 15 ° 20'  E