Laško

Laško lies on the Savinja beneath Hum hill, along the old road from Celeia towards the Sava. The settlement was recorded in medieval documents and its Slovene name refers to a village of Romance speakers. In 1437 the counts of Celje granted land here to Nikolaj Behaim; Sigismund Weixelberger later acquired it and built the manor that bore his name.

Ottoman attacks reached Laško at the end of the fifteenth century, burning the settlement at least once. Peasant revolts followed in 1515 and 1635, and plague struck particularly hard in 1646–1647. A school was established by about 1600, and a lower primary school followed under Maria Theresa in the eighteenth century. The town's older buildings and river crossing bore witness to a community repeatedly affected by war and disease.