Prevalje travel guide

Prevalje (German language]: Prävali) is a municipality in Slovenia. It lies in the valley Mießtal of river Meža in Koroska, Carinthia. On the 1st January, 1999 Prevalje became the independent municipality. Other big municipalities of the region are Ravne Koroskem (in German Gutenstein - principal place of the valley Mießtal), and Črna Koroskem (in German Schwarzenbach) and Mežica (in German Mießdorf). Prevalje lies with a valley widening where the Meža (River) from a valley narrowness flow into a spacious scenery full with fluvioglazialen sediments. In the North the western runners of the Strojna, Stražišče und Dolga Brda limit the settlement core and in the South the Navrski vrh (605 m) and Riflov vrh (726 m).
The historical settlement core is on the left shore of the Meža, in the north edge of the valley ground, in the district „Na Fari“ (in German Pfarrdorf) with the parish church Marija na jezeru (in German Maria am See). The second historical centre of the place lies with the mouth of the Leški potok (in German Liescha-Bach) in the Meža. Here stood beginning of 18. Cent. the first industrial companies which laid the foundation-stone for the quick economic and spatial development of the place. The area forms the today's centre of the vast place around the high street Dravograd - Mežica - Črna na Koroškem. (...) more....