Ajdovščina

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Ajdovščina
Ajdovščina coat of arms Map of Slovenia, position of Ajdovščina highlighted
Basic data
Country SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia
Historic region Coastal land / Primorska
Statistical region Goriška (Gorica)
Coordinates 45 ° 53 '  N , 13 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 53 '8 "  N , 13 ° 54' 26"  E
height 117  m. i. J.
surface 245.2  km²
Residents 18,928 (2008)
Population density 77 inhabitants per km²
Post Code 5270
License Plate GO
Structure and administration
Mayor : Tadej Beočanin
Website
Ajdovščina

Ajdovščina (German Haidenschaft , Italian Aidussina ) is a small town and municipality in Slovenia . It is located between Nova Gorica and Postojna on the short Hubelj river , which rises near a rich karst spring on the edge of the Ternovan Forest and flows into the Vipava after a few kilometers .

Residents

18,928 people live in the total community, which consists of 45 localities and hamlets. The small town of Ajdovščina alone has 6373 inhabitants.

Districts

history

Roman wall remains in Ajdovščina
The city at the time of Italian rule

In Roman times, the city was a fortified camp with a post office called Castra , part of the barrage of Claustra Alpium Iuliarum . The camp was located on the Via Gemina , an important connecting road to and from Italy , which led from Emona ( Ljubljana ) to Aquileia over the pass of the Birnbaumer forest . In front of the walls of Castra , on September 6, 394, the Battle of Frigidus took place, in which Emperor Theodosius I was victorious over his adversary Eugenius .

In 451 the camp was destroyed by the Huns under Attila .

In 1507 Maximilian I granted the settlement market rights , which gave the city an upswing.

At the time of Austrian rule until the end of the First World War , Ajdovščina belonged to the judicial district of Haidenschaft in the duchy of Gorizia and Gradisca , which formed part of the Austrian coastal region . During the First World War there was an airfield of the Austro-Hungarian aviation troops in the community . Subsequently, the municipality was under Italian sovereignty until 1945/1947 and belonged to the province of Gorizia (1924–1927 to the province of Udine ).

traffic

The train station (photo 2011)

The city is on the H4 expressway that connects Nova Gorica with Ljubljana . In 1902 the town was connected to the railway at Dornberk via a branch from the Wocheinerbahn (route from Gorizia via Sežana to Trieste ) .

In the west of the city is the Ajdovščina airfield , which is mainly used by microlight aircraft and has served the local manufacturer Pipistrel as a factory airfield since 1987 .

Town twinning

The Italian partner municipality of Ajdovščina is Quiliano in Liguria .

City personalities

Personalities born in Ajdovščina

Personalities who have worked in the city

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goriška, Izletniška karta 1: 50000, Ljubljana: Geodetski zavod Slovenije 2000

Web links

Commons : Municipality of Ajdovščina  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Haydoschena in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts