Vitanje

Vitanje ( German: Wide stone) is a municipality in the Spodnja Štajerska region in Slovenia.

Location and population

In the overall community composed of eight villages in 2372 people. The main town Vitanje alone has 863 inhabitants and is situated on the western slopes of Pohorje ( the Pohorje Mountains ) and at the foothills of the Karawanken.

Districts of the total community

  • Pretzels,
  • Hudinja,
  • Ljubnica,
  • Paka,
  • Spodnji Dolič,
  • Stenica,
  • Vitanje
  • Vitanjsko Skomarje

History

The area was settled in the 6th century by Slovenes. After the loss of Slovenian independence it came under Frankish rule of the Holy Roman Empire. End of the 11th century it was under the rule of the Diocese of Krško ( Gurkfeld ). The place was then Vitanje administrative center of an extensive territory, as the bishop of Krško here had their ministry officials, from which later developed their families the basic rule of Vitanje.

One of the main town nearby castle, Old - wide stone was indirectly mentioned in 1107 ( Designation of a knight March Ward de Witenstain ) for the first time. It is thus one of the oldest castles in Slovenia. Your opposite is originally from the 14th century Castle Neu - wide stone. Both buildings, drawn in 1681 by Georg Matthäus Vischer are preserved as ruins.

1306 Vitanje / wide stone was awarded market rights.

Vitanje counted centuries to Lower Styria in the Duchy of Styria, which belonged to the Western part of the empire of Austria - Hungary since 1867. Since November 1918, the area is part of the later Yugoslavia since 1991 in Slovenia.

Cultural center for space technology

In September 2012, was in Vitanje because here lived the Slovenian grandparents of the Austrian-Slovenian space theorist Herman Potočnik opened as an art project with the help of the EU and the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia a cultural center for European space technologies ( KSEVT ) that deal with cultural issues of space should. The architecture of the building is modeled after the first space station that a man had devised at a time, in the conquest of space was just a thought experiment.

Woodworking

Every year in the Vitanje Holcerija instead. The craftsmanship and morals on the subject of woodworking is vividly presented.

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