Rogatec (pronounced [ɾɔˈɡaːtəts]; German: Rohitsch[2]) is a small town in eastern Slovenia, on the border with Croatia.

[2] This and the early transcriptions of the name with h are direct evidence that the Slovene phonological change *g > γ once extended all the way to eastern Styria.

[7][8] Rogatec was a feudal possession belonging in turn to several noble families—Traungau, Rohitsch, and Žovnek (later the Counts of Celje)—and from 1456 onward to the Habsburgs.

Most of the buildings in the historic center of the settlement were rebuilt in the 19th century, but they preserved the layout and height of the older structures.

[6] After the invasion of Yugoslavia, the occupying forces exiled about 30 families from Rogatec, mostly intellectuals, to Croatia and Serbia.

[10] The Rehar Corner Mass Grave (Grobišče Reharjev kot) is located in a meadow 4 meters (13 ft) from a large walnut tree at the end of Counts of Celje Street (Poti Celjskih grofov).

It contains the remains of four young men that were led to the site and shot on the night of 19 May 1945 and left lying in the meadow.

It contains the remains of several people, including two young men captured near the Sotla River and an Austrian soldier shot in May 1945.

[17] The parish church in the town is dedicated to Saint Bartholomew (Slovene: sveti Jernej) and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Celje.