Rateče

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Rateče
Rateče Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°29′53″N 13°42′58″E / 46.49806, 13.71611Coordinates: 46°29′53″N 13°42′58″E / 46.49806, 13.71611
Country	Slovenia
Region	Upper Carniola
Municipality	Kranjska Gora
Elevation	863.6 m (2,833 ft)
Population (2002)
- Total	639
[1]

Rateče is an village in the municipality of Kranjska Gora, in the far northwest corner of Slovenia. It is located in the upper part of the Upper Sava Valley, between the rivers Sava Dolinka and Ziljica, a tributary of the Drava. Further up the valley is the Rateče border crossing to Italy. Rateče is the closest Slovenian village to the summit of Peč (also known as Tromeja, "tri-border"), the point where the borders of Austria, Italy and Slovenia meet.

Contents 1 History 2 Geography 3 Economy and Tourism 4 External Links

History

The settlement is first mentioned in 1385. It still retains much of its historic character. One of the oldest surviving churches in Slovenia, the Church of St. Thomas, is located in the village. The Rateče (or Celovec) Manuscript, one of the earliest surviving Slovene texts, is thought to have been compiled in the Rateče area (possibly at St. Thomas') during the second half of the 14th century.

Other historic buildings include the late gothic parish church of the Holy Spirit, and an ethnographic museum in the Kajžnk House, a restored 19th-century farmhouse.

Geography

The creeks Trebiža and Kravnjak flow through the village. Their sources are on the slopes of the mountains Peč (1510 m) and Petelinjek (1552 m), constituting the extreme western part of the Karavanke range. Below the village and beside the main Jesenice-Trbiž road is the gravelly Ledine basin, where the Nadiža creek disappears underground. The creek flows from the glacial valley of Planica. At times of heavy precipitation a small lake forms in Ledine, from which water filters throgh the gravel to rise again at Zelenci, a marshy wetland with an extraordinarily rich ecosystem, regarded as the permanent source of the Sava Dolinka.

Economy and Tourism

The village is surrounded by fields, meadows and pastures. Due to the sharp climate, the inhabitants concern themselves principally with livestock husbandry, relying on summer grazing in high pastures. Most local farmers are binational landowners, with meadows across the border in Italy.

Tourism is important to the local economy; there are many vacation houses in the area. Rateče is a starting point for mountaineering trips into the Julian Alps (through Tamar) and the Karavanke. The lower Planica valley hosts the famous ski jumps where both the 100 m and 200 m benchmarks were first broken (in 1936 and 1994 respectively). Near the border crossing there is "Macesnov'c" ski area, with a 1900 m track.

Climate chart for Rateče
J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D
43   2 -7	43   5 -7	61   9 -3	103   13 1	107   18 5	146   21 9	152   23 10	129   24 11	158   18 7	224   13 3	194   6 -2	91   1 -6
temperatures in °C precipitation totals in mm source: [1]
Imperial conversion   J F M A M J J A S O N D     1.7   36 19     1.7   41 19     2.4   48 27     4.1   55 34     4.2   64 41     5.7   70 48     6   73 50     5.1   75 52     6.2   64 45     8.8   55 37     7.6   43 28     3.6   34 21 temperatures in °F precipitation totals in inches

External Links

• Tourist Society Rateče - Planica
• Climate characteristics, meteorological station Rateče - Planica
• Kajžnk House museum

v • d • e Kranjska Gora Towns and villages Capital: Kranjska Gora, Belca, Dovje, Gozd Martuljek, Log, Mojstrana, Podkoren, Rateče, Srednji vrh, Zgornja Radovna Notable people Jakob Aljaž, Josip Vandot Landmarks Korensko sedlo, Krma, Kot Valley, Martuljek waterfalls, Planica, Church of St. Thomas, Church of the Holy Ghost, Russian Chapel Vršič, Kajžnk House, Liznjek Homestead, Tamar, Vitranc, Vrata Valley, Vršič pass, Zelenci

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