Vrhnika

Vrhnika
Basic data
Country	Slovenia
Historic region	Inner Carniola / Notranjska
Statistical region	Osrednjeslovenska (Central Slovenia)
Coordinates	45 ° 58 '  N , 14 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 58 '0 "  N , 14 ° 17' 51"  E
height	293  m. i. J.
surface	126.3  km²
Residents	15,544 (2008)
Population density	123 inhabitants per km²
Post Code	1360
License Plate	LJ
Structure and administration
Mayor :	Marjan Rihar
Website	www.vrhnika.si

Vrhnika (German Oberlaibach ; Italian Nauporto ) is a municipality in the Notranjska region in Slovenia .

Center of Vrhnika

Location and inhabitants

15,544 people live in the total community, which consists of 25 villages and hamlets. The main town Vrhnika has 7520 inhabitants and is 293 meters above sea level. The Ljubljanica flows through it. The community is located 21 kilometers southwest of Ljubljana on the edge of the Ljubljana Moor .

Districts of the entire municipality

• Bevke , (German: "Wepnersdorf")
• Bistra , (German: "Freundenthal in der Oberkrain")
• Blatna Brezovica , (German: "Moosthal")
• Drenov Grič , (German: "Kleinlaibach")
• Jamnik , (German: "Jamnig")
• Jerinov Grič , (German: "Irnau")
• Kurja vas , (German: "Chicken Village")
• Lesno Brdo , (German: "Holzenegg")
• Mala Ligojna , (German: "Klein Ludigendorf")
• Marinčev Grič , (German: "Marintschegg")
• Mirke , (German: "Merkat in der Oberkrain")
• Mizni Dol , (German: "Mouse Hal")
• Padež , (German: "Padesch in der Oberkrain")
• Podlipa , (German: "Sankt Britz in der Oberkrain")
• Pokojišče , (German: "Freythof")
• Prezid , (German: "Presidt")
• Sinja Gorica , (German: "Schweinbüchel")
• Smrečje , (German: "Fir trees in the Upper Carniola")
• Stara Vrhnika , (German: "Alt Oberlaibach")
• Strmica , (German: "Stermetz in der Oberkrain")
• Trčkov Grič ,
• Velika Ligojna , (German: "Groß Ludigendorf")
• Verd , (German: "Werdenberg in der Oberkrain")
• Vrhnika , (German: "Oberlaibach")
• Zaplana , (German: "Safe")
• Zavrh pri Borovnici , (German: "Sawürch")

history

People have lived in the area around Vrhnika since ancient times. A wooden spearhead, estimated to be 40,000 years old, was found in the Ljubljanica river bed. In Roman times there was a settlement with a fort and port on the site of today's city, which was named Nauportus . The Greek geographer Strabo reports that freight was transported from Aquileia on trucks over the pass in the Birnbaumer Wald ( Ad Pirum ) to Nauportus . From there they were loaded onto ships and transported further east across the Ljubljanica and Save rivers . According to Tacitus, Nauportus was sacked in 14 AD by the road builders of Legio XIII Gemina for the Via Gemina .

In the 12th century, today's place Vrhnika was first mentioned in writing as Oberlaibach.

At the beginning of the 20th century industrialization set in and in 1955 Vrhnika was finally elevated to a town.

sons and daughters of the town

• Ivan Cankar (1876–1918), writer and poet
• Štefan Hadalin (* 1995), ski racer

Web links

Commons : Vrhnika  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the municipality Slovene
• Information about the community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Strabo, Geographica, VII, 5, 2.
3. ↑ Tacitus Annales , 1.20: “ Interea manipuli ante coeptam seditionem Nauportum missi ob itinera et pontes et alios usus, postquam turbatum in castris accepere, vexilla convellunt direptisque proximis vicis ipsoque Nauporto, quod municipii instar erat,… ”.