Rača, Bratislava


Rača is a borough of Bratislava, Slovakia, in the Bratislava III district.

Names and etymology

The name probably comes from the Slavic personal name Radša/Radoslav or the Slavic stem vorč-/vrača. The name was adopted by Germans as Rechesdorf. The Germanized form had been used even by the Slovaks themselves, e.g., Račissdorf, Račištorf except for a short period in 1920 when the official name was Raslavice. In 1946, its original name Rača was restored.

History

Rača was mentioned for the first time in 1296 as a vineyard village under the name villa Racha. In 1946, the village became a borough of Bratislava.