Jezersko () is a
municipality in the historic
Carinthia region of northern
Slovenia. Since 2005, it is part of the
Gorenjska statistical region.
Jezersko is located in the remote
Kokra valley of the
Kamnik–Savinja Alps, close to the
Seebergsattel pass and the border with
Austria. The main activities that locals engage in are
tourism,
cattle breeding and
forestry.
History
The name of the area derives from a
glacial lake near the settlement of
Zgornje Jezersko that dried out during the 15th century, thus the German name
Seeland (literally "lake land", first recorded as
Seelant in 1496), and its Slovene equivalent
, which came into use at the end of the 19th century. A document from 1391 mentions the church of "St. Oswald by the Lake" (
Sv. Ožbolt pri Jezeru).
The village was part of the
Duchy of Carinthia until 1918. It was the only settlement already ceded by the Carinthian
Landtag assembly to the newly established
State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, before it was officially adjudicated together with the
Meža valley and
Dravograd to the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes by the 1919
Treaty of Saint-Germain.
Tourism
Jezersko has a long tourist tradition. There is a 3 star hotel in Jezersko. The location of the village allows for exceptional views of the surrounding mountains, and it is starting point for
mountaineering routes to Grintovec,...
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