Selnica ob Dravi

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Skakalnica v Lahovi grabi:

K-Point:

ca. 25 m

Further jumps:	no
Plastic matting:	no
Year of construction:	1940's
Operating until:	1960's
Status:	destroyed
Coordinates:	46.550288, 15.479391 ✔

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The ski jump in Selnica ob Dravi was located in the small valley of Lahova Graba, locally also known as the Valley of Peace, situated on the slopes of Janževa Gora in the area of the Markač and Šteger farms. The facility was built shortly after the end of the Second World War and, according to the local chronicle, was renovated several times in the following years. It formed an important part of post-war sporting life in Selnica, where skiing and ski jumping developed spontaneously in fully amateur conditions and without infrastructure.
According to residents’ recollections, the hill was actively used for jumping in the 1950s and 1960s. One of the local jumpers was Ivan Majster, who appears in family memories as well as in surviving photographs from that period. At that time, a lively yet informal group of young skiers and ski jumpers was active in the area, and Selnica together with the nearby Koritndorf/Vernik formed a shared winter-sports environment. At least two ski jumping structures existed in the Lahova Graba valley, as confirmed by the accounts of several inhabitants who remember their operation.
After 1963 the Selnica jump was left without maintenance and slowly fell into disrepair. In the following years, although it was still remembered as part of the local landscape, its use gradually ceased, and by the 1970s the facility was practically out of operation.

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