New Tales of The Present time of my Žumberak / in ENGLISH

Yesterday's Celebration in Sošice, Sunday, April 29, 2018

Žumberak and Bela Krajina - the land of uskoks

After several monthly articles in which I wrote about HISTORY and FUTURISM on Žumberak, this is a good opportunity to write something about the PRESENT TIME of Žumberak.
Yesterday, the opening ceremony of the Croatian branch of the KRABAT association was held at the home of the DVD (firemen's home) of the place Sošice in Žumberak. The local meeting place which also serves as the traditional home for social and cultural events in Žumberak region. Guests from Germany and Slovenia came here, (the smaller part of the Žumberak region is located in the territory of Slovenia, under the name Gorjanci, in the wider region of Bela Krajina, that could be roughly translated as "White Border Area"). As the name of this region suggests, Bela Krajina in Slovenia was also a part of then military bordering area of ​​uskoks from Žumberak in the defense of Habsburg Monarchy and this part of Croatia from the Turkish attacks for several centuries (approximately, from the late 16th to early 19th centuries). As you can see in these pictures, guests of this ceremony could pass the area around Sošice on traditional horses and chariots from this area, which are the 19th century Žumberak tradition.
Mrs. Monika Bračika is a very active member in promoting cultural connections of the Žumberak region with the Krabat tourist region in the east of Germany. Mrs. Bračika, born Šajatović, has the same familiar origin as the legendary medieval knight from Žumberak, Janko Šajatović or Johannes Schadowitz (1624-1704), in Germany called KRABAT. I met there the German artist Joerg Tausch who is also actively working on the Krabat project, and has already made a sculpture of this man that became in Germany, especially in the 19 century, a hero from folk tales possessing magical skills. Mr. Tausch has also collaborated on the visual forming of Krabat character, for the popular history book in Germany.

One winter photo of Monica Bračika in military uniform. Mrs. Bračika is actively working on the tourist promotion of Žumberak. You can read (in Croatian language) on
https://mojzumberak.com/

German artist Joerg Tausch was also a guest at Žumberak yesterday, and this is his Krabat sculpture and a history book about Krabat, a popular legendary character in Germany. More about Mr. Tausch art work on the Krabat project as well as other projects can be found on his website http://www.stuck-arts.de/?p=2059

A sympathetic boy in front of the culture home in Sošice wore a “house of welcome” with a raven on the roof (family coat of arms of Krabat)

German guests brought us products from their region named by Krabat, green beer and some other alimentary products.
After that we also visited that place in the village of Badovinci, where there is a monument near the church and the medieval church cemetery, with the coats of arms of the Žumberak families of uskoks. Just last month I placed one picture on the blog where you can see all these coats of arms in close distance, and in this a photo where are my mother Dragica and my cousin Saša.

I invite all of you who come as tourists to visit Žumberak to visit as well our Facebook group PERFECTA TERRA FUTURA (Žumberak, Croatia) and if you have taken beautiful photos BE FREE TO SEND US to the address facebook group. We would love to publish them.

We already have many beautiful pictures of nature of Žumberak, which you can see on the facebook page of the group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/270162336828421/

This is a part of our rich library of books in Croatian, German and English language which we have in our tourist facility, hostel Flores. Buyers of my new books of futuristic genres already published or in the process of writing (about their content you can read in other articles on this blog or on my youtube channel) will receive as an additional gift one older book from our library
https://www.facebook.com/hostelflores/

Hostel Flores (in Croatia, there are few more with this name in some countries round the World) is also present in international touristic sites:
booking.com
airbnb.com
as well as
tripadvisor.com

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