Ivarčko-Ošven
A Slovenian ski area below Uršlja gora that ended in 2016 when the owner of a resort across the Austrian border simply bought its lifts and took them away.
- Region
- Koroška
- Country
- Slovenia
- Status
- closed
- Year closed
- 2016
- Reason for closure
- The equipment was sold and removed. In 2016 Franc Smuk, the Slovenian-Austrian owner of the Pec ski resort over the border in Austria, bought the installations and relocated them, which ended the area outright.
History
Ivarčko-Ošven sat above the village of Kotlje beneath Uršlja gora, in Slovenian Carinthia near Ravne na Koroškem and the Ivarčko lake. It ran a chairlift and two tow lifts with an uphill capacity of about 2,000 skiers an hour from the middle of the twentieth century until 2016. Its ending was unusually direct: Franc Smuk, the Slovenian-Austrian owner of the Pec ski resort just over the Austrian border, bought the equipment in 2016 and moved it there. The infrastructure was taken away with it, and the skiers who used Ivarčko now cross into Austria to ski at Pec instead - one of three Carinthian ski areas in Slovenia, with Mežica and Rahtel, to have gone in recent decades. Its opening year, lift specifications and piste names are not documented in accessible sources; the coordinates mark the Ivarčko lake below the site.
Lifts
| Name | Type | Manufacturer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed lift | Chairlift | The area chairlift, bought and relocated in 2016 | |
| Unnamed lift | Surface lift | One of two tow lifts; with the chairlift the area could carry roughly 2,000 skiers an hour. Removed in 2016 | |
| Unnamed lift | Surface lift | The second tow lift, removed in 2016 |
Sources and further reading
More in Slovenia
Location
46.5061, 14.9710