Rašica (;
[''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 30.]) is a small
village
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in the hills above
Srednje Gameljne north of the capital
Ljubljana
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in central
Slovenia
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. It belongs to the
City Municipality of Ljubljana
The Urban Municipality of Ljubljana (), also the City of Ljubljana (, acronym MOL) is one of twelve city and metropolitan municipalities in Slovenia. Its seat is Ljubljana, the largest and capital city of Slovenia. , its mayor is Zoran Janković ...
. It is part of the traditional region of
Upper Carniola
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and is now included with the rest of the municipality in the
Central Slovenia Statistical Region
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Geography
This is the second-largest region in terms of territory. It has a total area of 2,555 km2, with a central po ...
.
Geography
Rašica is a clustered village on a westward-facing sun-exposed slope below Stane Kosec Peak (), a limestone elevation. The core of the settlement lies on both sides of the road to Srednje Gameljne. The steep limestone Reber Ridge rises above the village and contains karst caves. Below the ridge is a cliff known as ''Pod šitom'', and higher up are Cottage Cave (''Zidanica''), which was inhabited in prehistoric times, Big Cave (''Velika jama''), Fox Cave (''Lisičja jama'', also known as ''Kurja jama'' 'Chicken Cave' or ''Volčja jama'' 'Wolf Cave'), and Devil's Cave (''Hudičeva jama''). The soil in the area is loamy. There is a grassy valley below the village with shale deposits, where the headwaters of Črnušnica Creek (also known as Črnuče Creek, ''Crnuški potok'') gather, later joined by Dog Creek (''Pasji potok''). There are tilled fields along the level areas between the farms are around the village. The water main is fed by Ulrich's Spring (''Urhov studenec'') and Shrine Spring (''Pod znamenjem'').
[Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, pp. 381–384.]
Name
Rašica was attested in written sources in 1260 as ''Wrenschitz''. The Slovenian name of the village was originally ''*Vranščica'', derived from the personal name ''*Vran'' via the adjective ''*vranski'', referring to an early inhabitant of the area. The name is unrelated to that of the village of
Rašica near Velike Lašče. In the past, the village was known as ''Uranschitz'' in German.
History
During the Second World War, German forces burned the village on September 20, 1941 and evicted the population in retaliation for an attack on a convoy of German cars two days earlier. This was the first village in Slovenia to suffer this fate.
A lookout tower and shelter were built on the peak above the village in 1957.
On September 21, 1958, Rašica Peak was renamed Stane Kosec Peak ()
in honor of the Partisan
Stane Kosec.
Church
The local
church
Church may refer to:
Religion
* Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...
is dedicated to the
Holy Cross and belongs to the Parish of Šmartno pod Šmarno Goro. It was first mentioned in written documents dating to 1526.
In 1941 it was burned down together with the village. It was restored in 1968, preserving its original layout.
Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 2547
Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Rašica include:
* Stane Kosec (1913–1941), Partisan, proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia
The Order of the People's Hero or the Order of the National Hero ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Orden narodnog heroja, Oрден народног хероја; , ), was a Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav gallantry medal, the ...
in 1953
References
External links
*
Rašica on Geopedia
Populated places in the Urban Municipality of Ljubljana
Šmarna Gora District
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