Podbrdo, Tolmin Explained

Official Name:Podbrdo
Pushpin Map:Slovenia
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Slovenia
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Slovenia
Subdivision Type1:Traditional region
Subdivision Name1:Slovenian Littoral
Subdivision Type2:Statistical region
Subdivision Name2:Gorizia
Subdivision Type3:Municipality
Subdivision Name3:Tolmin
Area Total Km2:5.44
Population As Of:2002
Population Total:725
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Coordinates:46.21°N 13.9728°W
Elevation M:535.3
Footnotes:[1]

Podbrdo (pronounced as /sl/; Italian: Piedicolle,[2] German: Untereck) is a settlement in the Municipality of Tolmin in the Littoral region of Slovenia.[3] It lies in narrow valley of the Bača River, next to the Bohinj Railway line at the end of the longest railway tunnel in Slovenia (6,327.3 m) and next to the road from Bohinjska Bistrica and Železniki across Petrovo Brdo towards Most na Soči.

Name

The name Podbrdo is a fused prepositional phrase that has lost its case inflection, from pod 'under' + brdo 'hill', thus referring to the local geography.[4]

History

The settlement was founded in the 16th century by German-speaking settlers from Tyrol, but the area was settled earlier.

Church

The most important building in the village is the parish church; it is dedicated to Saint Nicholas and belongs to the Diocese of Koper.[5] It dates from the Baroque period.

Other cultural heritage

Podbrdo railway station, on the Bohinj Railway, was a border crossing point between the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between World War I and World War II.

There are also many 19th-century houses, a monument to the workers that died during construction of the railway tunnel, and memorials to the uprising against fascism (between World War I and World War II, when Podbrdo, then named Piedicolle, was part of Italy).

Natural heritage

Podbrdo is surrounded by many attractive mountains such as Slatnik (1589 m), Lajnar (1549 m), Bača Peak (Vrh Bače, 1281 m), Črna Prst (1844 m), Kobla (1498 m), and Porezen (1622 m).
The sunny side of Črna Prst has attracted botanists for more than 200 years. In the mountain meadows it is possible to find a number of rare species:

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.stat.si/eng/index.asp Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. Book: Italy and the Jugoslav Minority within Her Borders. 1931. Minorities Institute. Ljubljana. 58. April 25, 2018.
  3. http://www.tolmin.si/ Tolmin municipal site
  4. Book: Snoj . Marko . Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen . 2009 . Modrijan . Ljubljana . 76.
  5. http://kp.rkc.si/dokumenti/zupnije/seznam.pdf Koper Diocese list of churches