Canal ob Soči

Canal ob Soči Canal castle
Basic data
Country	Slovenia
Historic region	Coastal land / Primorska
Statistical region	Goriška (Gorica)
Coordinates	46 ° 5 '  N , 13 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 5 '9 "  N , 13 ° 38' 5"  E
height	106  m. i. J.
surface	146.5  km²
Residents	5,978 (2002)
Population density	41 inhabitants per km²
Post Code	5213
License Plate	GO
Structure and administration
Community type	Borough
Website	www.obcina-kanal.si

Neptune fountain

Kanal ob Soči ( Italian : Canale d'Isonzo , German : Kanalburg ) is a municipality in Slovenia . It is located in the Primorska region on the Soča River (Isonzo in Italian) between Tolmin and Nova Gorica at an altitude of 103 meters above sea level. The community has 5978 inhabitants.

The influence of the milder Mediterranean climate can be seen here with cypress and fig trees. A smaller plastics factory is located in the village. The newer part of town spreads out on a higher terrace. The picturesque settlement extends from the Soča banks at the foot of the Kanalski Kolovrat hilly landscape up to the Banjšice plateau.

Soča / Isonzo

At the Canal, the Soča washes away the last of the trough gorges, which are quite wide because of the strong erosion; they are 400 m long, the narrowest are to be found with 20 m at the beginning of the village above the bridge, the widest with 60 m at the exit from the village: they are on average 10 m deep. however, the flow is often very low because of the Plave hydroelectric power station. In the summer there are competitions in jumping from the bridge.

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  View from the opposite bank of the Soča

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  View from the bridge

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  Houses on the riverside

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  Before a swim in the Soča

history

The area at the deep hollows of the Soča was already settled in prehistory. The Romans built a bridge at this strategically important point. Later, a fortress is mentioned in 1264, the “Court of St. Mary” in 1336, and the bridge around 1350 as the only crossing over the Soča. The village was affected by the Venetian-Austrian war 1615-1617, it was involved in the great Tolmin peasant uprising in 1713. It was badly damaged during the First World War .

Districts

Ajba , (German: "Aiwa") Anhovo , ("Anichau") Avče , ("Auzza" / "Alsbach") Bodrež , ("Wödriess") Deskle , ("Deschel") Doblar , ("Dobler") Gorenja vas , ("Oberdorf") Kal nad Kanalom , ("Kaal bei Kanalburg") Kambreško , ("Sankt Gregorsberg") Canal , (" Canal Castle") Kanalski Vrh , ("mountain smoking")

Kostanjevica pri Ligu , ("Kostaniewitz") Krestenica , ("Kerstenitz") Levpa , ("Saint Steffan") Lig , ("Sankt Mariazell") Ložice , ("Loschitz") Morsko , ("Thurn am Sontig") Plave , ("Plau") Ročinj , ("Ronschein") Seniški Breg , ("Woschenberg") Ukanje , ("Wuchein") Zapotok ("Amwert")

Economy and Infrastructure

The Avče pumped storage power plant is located in the Avče district .

Attractions

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  Parish Church of the Assumption

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  Church interior

The core of the settlement was surrounded by a curtain wall in the Middle Ages. Four towers of the former curtain wall have been preserved: one is now the exhibition room of the local painter Riko Debenjak. The old part of the city extends on a narrow terrace on the left bank of the Soča and has narrow, closed streets around the main square “Na Placu” (= Am Platz) and along the “Gasa” (= alley). On the square behind the church is a Neptune fountain from 1815: it is the most important market fountain in Slovenia. In the park on the opposite side there is a bust of the local alpinist and culturally active Valentin Stanič (N. Pirnat): on the upper side of the square there is a bust of the composer Marij Kogoj (B. Kalin).

The parish church of the Assumption (cerkev Marijinega vnebovzetja) with a preserved Gothic presbytery (1430) was probably built in the 13th century. Baroque style after the fire in 1632, a northern and a southern chapel added. Around 1790 it received the baroque facade and the peculiar tower. The main altar is a valuable Venetian stone carving from 1740.

literature

• Marko Simić: On the trail of the Isonzo front , Mohorjeva Hermagoras, Klagenfurt-Laibach-Wien 2004; ISBN 3-85013-884-4
• Gerhard Pilgram . Wilhelm Berger. Gerhard Maurer: Looking for the distance On foot from Carinthia to Trieste. A Wander-Reise-Lesebuch, pp. 158–159; 2006 Carinthia Verlag, Vienna-Graz-Klagenfurt; ISBN 3-85378-594-8

Web links

Commons : Municipality of Kanal ob Soči  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ THE PUMPING HPP AVČE. (No longer available online.) SENG Soške elektrarne Nova Gorica doo, archived from the original on December 13, 2012 ; accessed on December 16, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.