Sveta Gera
| Sveta Gera / Trdinov vrh | ||
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 View from the northeast |
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| height | 1181 m. i. J. | |
| location | Croatia , Slovenia | |
| Mountains | Žumberak Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 45 '35 " N , 15 ° 19' 5" E | |
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Sveta Gera is the Croatian name of the highest mountain of the Žumberak Mountains (Slov. Gorjanci) and is part of the Croatian-Slovenian border. The partially tree-lined summit plateau is about 300 meters in length and reaches its maximum height of 1178 meters (1181 m according to official sources).
Naming
In 1923 the Slovenes named the mountain Trdinov vrh (Trdina Mountain) in memory of the writer Janez Trdina from vielleš .
Older German and Hungarian sources refer to the mountain as St. Geraberg and Gorianc, respectively . Older Croatian sources also use the name Sveti Ilija as the name of the mountain.
history
- 1447 - the church Sveta Jera / Sveta Gera is first mentioned
- 1530 - Uskoks began to settle in Žumberak and the church of St. Elias was built
- 1802 - Sveta Gera church is closed
- 1889 - Johannes Frischauf marks the first hiking trail to the summit
- 1899 - A lookout tower is built
- 1905 - Trail from Novo mesto
- 1923 - Mount Sveta Jera renamed Trdinov vrh on the initiative of Ferdinand Seidl
- 1934 - a 21 m high wooden pyramid is erected above the triangulation point
- 1960 - Construction of a new 15 m high concrete column
- 1968 - Construction of a road and the prison military facility
- 1980 - Slovenian nature protection ordinance for the primeval forest on Trdinov vrh
- 1984 - Construction of a 90 m high visok telecommunications tower
- 1991 - JNA leaves the military post, with the consent of Croatia it is taken over by the Slovenian Territorial Defense
- 1992 - The ruins of St. Elias Church are found
- 1993 - Finding the ruins of the Sankt Gera Church and a tiled roof with a bell
- 1993 - Construction of the road to the top from the Croatian side
- 1999 - The Žumberak - Samoborske gorje Nature Park was founded on the Croatian side
buildings
An approx. 15 meter high national surveying column is located at the summit.
Sacred buildings
The much older Croatian name comes from the Roman Catholic St. Gera Chapel (kapelica sv. Gere) from the 15th century, which is 100 meters from the summit on the Slovenian side. The remains of the Greek Catholic Church of St. Elijah can be found 20 meters away .
Military base
Close to the summit, on the Croatian side, is a controversial military facility that the Yugoslav People's Army left in 1991 and that has been used by the Slovenian army ever since .
TV channel
Radiotelevizija Slovenija built a 94 meter high broadcast tower on the summit in 1986.
Web links
- RTVSLO.si - Trdinov vrh, dolenjski Triglav (slow.)
- Trdinov vrh on hribi.net (slow.)
- Dol-list.st
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- ↑ Description of the summit Sveta Gera, Croatian Mountain Association Jastrebarsko
- ↑ Mountains and mountain peaks above 500 meters ( English and Croatian ) Republic of Croatia - Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved September 9, 2008.
- ^ Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna , Natural History Museum Vienna, 1898, Volume 13, p. 21 (204) German
- ↑ Klute, Fritz . Handbook of geographical science, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, Potsdam, 1931, volume 3, p. 186. (Gorianc 1184 m)
- ^ Crown Prince Rudolf, Archbishop József, Philipp von Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha: The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Writings and Pictures , VI. Carinthia and Carniola, Chapter Landscapes of Carniola , published by the Royal Hungarian State Printing Office, Budapest, 1891, stored in: Kempelen Farkas Digital Archive
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^ Karst [2] in Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Vol. 10, Leipzig, 1907, pp. 680-681
"... and in the Uskokengebirge which stretches against the right bank of the Save with the St. Geraberg (Gorianc) reaching 1181 m"
- ↑ Poljak, Željko. Hrvatske planine , 4th edition, Golden marketing - Tehnička knjiga, Zagreb, 2007, p. 142, ISBN 978-953-212-314-2
- ↑ [1] ( 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.
- ↑ Oddajni center TRDINOV VRH (description of the station Trdinov Vrh), RTV Slovenija, accessed on February 23, 2018
