History of Logatec

evidence of human settlements on the plain near the Logaščica sinkhole and on Pusto Polje beneath Ostri Peak from the Iron Age as well. A central prehistoric fort was built on the hill Velike Bukve above Gorenji Logatec. There are still the remains of terraces where the wooden buildings used to stand. 

In Roman times, when the road from Aquileia to Aemona ran through Logaško Polje, a wayside station existed on a strategically important path between the Ljubljana Basin and Hrušica. Antique diaries call it Mansio Longatica.

In the Middle Ages, the administrative centre of the town was located in Gornji Logatec. Logatec was a carters’ settlement, still evident today by the architecture of large wayside farms, until the construction of railway tracks.

After 1857, when transport services ceased, logging and wood trade including wood sawing became more important. In 1875, the development of the town was also affected by the transfer of the local administration, court and tax office from Planina to Logatec. Logatec was a border town during both world wars as well as being the centre of the local district of the Drava Province.

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