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The old Krško (originally Gurckfeld) is squeezed between the Sava river and the hill above the town. The estate of Gurckfeld was mentioned for the first time in the year 895, when the estates of Reichenburg and Gurckfeld were given to the vassal Valtunij by the Franconian king Arnulf.
The estate was passed into different hands, like the counts of Bogen, the bishops of Salzburg and others. In 1373 it passed over to the counts of Celje and in 1391 the settlement quickly got the rights of a borough. In the 14th and 15th centuries there were many invasions of the Turks.
In 1477 the borough was raised into a town by Friedrich the Hapsburg and given the same rights as other towns . At that time the first city walls were built.
In the 16th century the town was overwhelmed by the religious reformation. Protestantism consolidated in Krško where two of the Slovenian greatest reformers lived. Jurij Dalmatin (born in 1547 in Krško) translated the Bible into the Slovenian language. Adam Bohorič (born in 1520 in Stolovnik near Krško) ran the first school in Krško and wrote the first Slovenian grammar.
In 1573 there was the Slovenian-Croatian peasant rising. In a battle near Krško the peasant army of Ilija Gregorić that counted 2,000 men was defeated.
The 17th century was fatal for the town, because there were several natural disasters (earthquakes, floods, several outbreaks of plague).
In 1647 the church of St. Rosalia was built for intercession against
plague. In 1640 the 
Capuchin convent was
built where there are still a rich library and a gallery of paintings from the 17th
and 19th centuries. On the premises of the convent today there is also a general educational library.
The last months of his life the Slovenian historian of a German origin Janez
Vajkard Valvasor, who published the book Slava
Vojvodine Kranjske and a book of coats-of-arms in Slovenia, spent in Krško.
In the 17th and 18th centuries Krško experienced the belief in witches as well and a number of women and girls were burnt at the stake.
The railway past the town was built in 1862 and a year later the first bridge over the Sava river was constructed.
At the beginning of WW II the first armed resistence group in Slovenia was betrayed and shot to death. Most of the inhabitants were exiled to Serbia and Germany.
After the year of 1950 fast economic and cultural development of the town and the surroundings began. Now Krško is a very important crossroads towards Kozjansko and Dolenjska.
Already in the history Krško was a political and economic centre and
it still is today. There is an important primary and secondary paper industry and in 1980
the Nuclear Power Station started working. There are also well developed timber and metal
secondary industries. Craft is one of the most important activites and lately tourism and
catering as well. In aspect of tourism and culture the nearby Kostanjevica na Krki is very interesting, with a rich
gallery
Forma viva (made of wood) in the open air,
while on the premises of a former Cisterician monastery there is a gallery, full of works
of art of Slovenian greatest painters and sculptors.
Just outside Brestanica there is a fish pond, where you can go fishing, and a nice restaurant. The spa Terme Čatež, with its rich health activites and catering, is not far away either.
Krško is well-known for its speedway races at the Matija Gubec stadium. At the near Brege hippodrome you can watch horse races.
Now there are cca 8,000 inhabitants in Krško. There are metal and electrical secondary schools and a music school.