Hayracks of Slovenia

A first day cover from Slovenia 🇸🇮 

The Hayracks of Slovenia 

Date of issue : 31-05-2019

Hayracks are a special feature of Slovenia, and the fact that they are so numerous in such a small area is also interesting. Their presence lends additional interest to the fields and meadows.

There are of various types - double, single, stretched. A double hayrack may reveal the owner’s special attitude to it. Farmers are usually very proud of their hayracks, if not even personally attached to them. This special attachment can be observed in the inscriptions on the dormers or on beams, which usually record the year of their construction or the name of the owner. They tell the story of the people who commissioned, constructed or used them.

They are used for drying grain sheaves, wheat, maize, clover, beans, hay, etc. Placed in fields, they are typical of the farm buildings in Slovenia. The hayrack is an important feature of the Slovenian ethnic area and an example of folk architecture worth preserving.

Thus, the initiative by the Municipality of Šentrupert in the Dolenjska region to design a ‘land of hayracks’ is even more commendable.  

Brochure of the open air hay racks museum 

All six types of hayrack will be presented at the museum: single, single stretched, single parallel, and low, stretched and double, which are double variants. The area of the Land of Hayracks covers 2.5 ha, with one kilometre of footpaths between the exhibits. The oldest example in the museum is a Lukatov double hayrack dating to 1795.

Thanks Mateja for this lovely cover and brochures of your city ! 

Bridges of Slovenia

A cover from Slovenia with the Europa 2018 stamps 

The Cobblers' Bridge over the river Ljubljanica in the centre of Ljubljana's Old Town is one of the best known twentieth- century bridges in Slovenia. Built between 1931 and 1932 to a design by architect Jože Plečnik, it replaced a narrower cast-iron bridge dating from the nineteenth century. Plečnik conceived the bridge, which is reserved for pedestrians and cyclists, as a town square above the water. The reinforced concrete bridge structure rests on a pier in the middle of the river. The pier is pierced by two arches. Plečnik complemented the balustrades on either side of the bridge with tall columns that were originally intended to support a pergola made of wooden beams, over which climbing plants would be trained. For reasons of economy, the pergola was not built and Plečnik instead topped the columns with concrete balls.

Puh Bridge over the Drava on the outskirts of Ptuj is named after the inventor, mechanical engineer and vehicle manufacturer Janez Puh, better known as Johann Puch (1862–1914). It was built between 2005 and 2007 during construction of Slovenia's motorway network, to plans by civil engineer Viktor Markelj and architect Peter Gabrijelčič. The bridge was built in a period when the conviction had taken root that the design of the area around a motorway should not only take into account views from the road itself, but also views of the road. Accordingly, Puh Bridge, with its distinctive structure, has become an identi able symbol in the wider environment. It is the most attractive of the 210 bridges built between 1994 and 2011 in the context of Slovenia's motorway construction programme 

Slovenia issues Greetings stamps every year in February for Valentine’s Day - with heart shaped perforation 

Greetings stamp - miniature painted chest 

Greetings stamp - marriage spoons 

Greetings stamp - Love graffiti

Environmental protection 2018


Thanks Maja for this wonderful cover :) 

Update : 04-02-2019

Another beautiful cover with the Europa 2018 - Slovenia stamps 

Thanks Mateja !