Krško

Krško ( German Gurkfeld ) [ krʃkɔ ] is a town with 27,586 inhabitants ( 2002) and a municipality in Slovenia, in the historical region of Lower Styria ( Lower Styria ). It is located on the Sava, the most water-rich tributary of the Danube.

The place is known, among other things because of the Krško Nuclear Power Plant, which is the only Slovenian nuclear power plant in operation since September 1981 and since January 1983 fed electricity into the public grid. Strictly speaking, is jointly operated by Slovenia and neighboring Croatia and currently covers around 20 percent of the Slovenian and 15 percent of the Croatian electricity demand.

History

The city was very important during the Reformation, the Protestant preachers have because here Adam Bohorič and Yuri Dalmatian lived and worked. Because the Slovenes have gotten through the Reformation ( Trubar ) the first bible in Slovenian and in the first " normalized " by Trubar the Slovenian language from the various dialects was the Reformation of Slovenia is still so important, even though the population the Counter-Reformation mostly "re- katholisiert " was.

During the Counter- Reformation was built in the Capuchin monastery in Krško and equipped with a rich library to which you are proud today. Währedn the reforms of Joseph II, it was not closed because it served the training.

Industrially, the city was known mainly because of the paper mill ( formerly cellulose production ) Vipap KrškoHistorische recordings on the company's website.