Alojz Knafelc (23 June 1859 – 26 April 1937) was a Slovene cartographer, mountaineer and the inventor of the Slovene trail blaze.

Life and work

Knafelc was born in Šmihel pri Novem Mestu. At first he worked as a drawer for the project of constructing the

railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

connection between

Hrpelje Hrpelje (, in older sources ''Herpelje'') is a settlement in the Municipality of Hrpelje-Kozina in the Littoral region of Slovenia. It is the administrative center of the municipality. Name Hrpelje was attested in historical sources as ''Herpeli ...

and

Kozina Kozina (; it, Cosina) is a settlement in the Municipality of Hrpelje-Kozina in the Littoral region of Slovenia, close to the border with Italy.measurement tables. Several times he recoloured the Aljaž Tower on Triglav. He also wrote the instructions on path-blazing, published in 1922 in the Alpine Gazette ( sl, Planinski vestnik). He died in

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Knafelc blaze

The Knafelc blaze, introduced in 1922, is a white dot inside a red ring. The outer diameter should be between , with the inner radius about half of the outer radius. A variant with a yellow dot in the center is used for the

European long-distance paths The European long-distance paths (alternatively, abbreviated as E-paths) are a network of long-distance footpaths that traverse Europe. While most long-distance footpaths in Europe are located in just one country or region, each of these numbered ...

E6 and E7. A variant with a green ring around a red ring and a white dot in the center is used on the borders of the country. The ''Knafelc blaze'' () was later used all over

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and is prescribed for Slovenia by the 2007 Mountain Paths Act ().

References

Knafelc's biography
Bojan Bračič. 2009. Published by the Post of Slovenia.

External links

* 1859 births 1937 deaths Slovenian inventors Slovenian cartographers Slovenian mountain climbers People from the City Municipality of Novo Mesto {{Explorer-stub