Preddvor
Preddvor Höflein |
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Basic data | |||
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Country | Slovenia | ||
Historic region | Upper Carniola / Gorenjska | ||
Statistical region | Upper Carniola | ||
Coordinates | 46 ° 18 ' N , 14 ° 25' E | ||
surface | 87 km² | ||
Residents | 3,660 (2018) | ||
Population density | 42 inhabitants per km² | ||
Post Code | 4205 | ||
License Plate | KR | ||
Structure and administration | |||
Mayor : | Miran Zadnikar | ||
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Preddvor (German: Höflein ) is a municipality below Jezersko (German Seebergsattel ) in the Gorenjska region in Slovenia .
Location and inhabitants
3660 people live in the total community, which consists of fourteen localities. The main town Preddvor alone has 829 inhabitants and is located at 494 m, ten km northeast of Kranj .
Districts
- Bašelj, (German: "Baschel")
- Breg ob Kokri, (German: "Ranndorf an der Kanker")
- Hraše pri Preddvoru, (German: "Hrasche bei Höflein")
- Hrib, (German: "Obergörtschach")
- Kokra, (German: "Kanker")
- Mače, (German: "Katzendorf in der Oberkrain")
- Možjanca, (German: "Moisesberg")
- Nova vas, (German: "Neudorf bei Höflein")
- Potoče, (German: "Pototsch")
- Preddvor, (German: "Höflein")
- Spodnja Bela, (German: "Niederfellach")
- Srednja Bela, (German: "Mitterfellach")
- Tupaliče, (German: "Tupalitsch")
- Zgornja Bela (German: "Oberfellach")
Others
The place Preddvor is located at the foot of the Storžič mountain (2132 m) on the Kokra (German Kanker), a good five kilometers north of Kranj in an area in which there are four castles: Turn pod novim gradom (Thurn unter Neuburg), where The first Slovenian writer Josipina Urbančič - Turnograjska was born in 1833 and lived until her marriage to Lovro Toman in 1853, the Preddvor (Höflein) and Hrib (Obergörtschach) castles and the ruins of the Novi grad (Obererckenstein) castle. Until the end of the Habsburg Empire, Preddvor belonged to the Kronland Krain and was part of the Krainburg judicial district and the Krainburg district .
Web links
- Website of the municipality Slovenian
Individual evidence
- ^ Preddvor - Slovene regions and municipalities in numbers. Retrieved April 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Castles around Preddvor