Špitalič (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 30.) is a village in the

Municipality of Kamnik The Municipality of Kamnik (; ) is a municipality in northern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Kamnik. Today it is part of the Central Slovenia Statistical Region. It is the 15th-largest municipality by area in Slovenia. Sett ...

in the

Upper Carniola Upper Carniola ( ; ; ) is a traditional region of Slovenia, the northern mountainous part of the larger Carniola region. The largest town in the region is Kranj, and other urban centers include Kamnik, Jesenice, Jesenice, Jesenice, Domžale and ...

region of

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Geography

The settlement is located in the

Tuhinj Valley The Tuhinj Valley (; ) is a valley in Slovenia linking the Celje Basin with the Ljubljana Basin in an east-west direction along the courses of the Nevljica and Motnišnica rivers. Geography The western part of the valley was formed by the wate ...

, on the road from

Kamnik Kamnik (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 26–27. or ''Stein in Oberkrain'') is the ninth-largest town of Slovenia, located in t ...

Celje Celje (, , ) is the List of cities and towns in Slovenia, third-largest city in Slovenia. It is a regional center of the traditional Slovenian region of Styria (Slovenia), Styria and the administrative seat of the City Municipality of Celje. Th ...

. It includes the hamlets of Jastroblje, Nova Reber (in older sources also ''Novo Rebro'', ), Dolina, Bukovšek, Zobava, Kisovšek, Podlipovec, Strmšek, Pustotnik, and Petrživec. The Lipovec Pasture lies south of the village center on the Šipek Ridge.

Name

Špitalič was attested in historical documents as ''Pochsruke'' in 1252, ''hospitale in Poxrukhe'' in 1255, and ''hospitale sancti Anthonii in Poxruk'' in 1261, among other names. The name ''Špitalič'' derives from German ''Spital'' 'hospice' (see

History History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

below).

History

Next to the church can be seen the ruins of what was the Špitalič (''Neuthal'') Mansion. Part of the Carniolan estates held by the

Counts of Andechs The House of Andechs was a feudal line of Bavarian princes in the 12th and 13th centuries. The counts of Dießen-Andechs (1100 to 1180) obtained territories in northern Dalmatia on the Adriatic seacoast, where they became Margraves of Istria and ...

, the structure was originally a hospice offering shelter to the many travelers passing through the valley. It was built by the Andechs margrave Henry II of Istria about 1228, passing to

Viktring Abbey Viktring Abbey (, ) is a former Cistercians, Cistercian monastery in the Austrian state of Carinthia (state), Carinthia. It is now a Roman Catholic parish, since 1973 a district of the Carinthian capital Klagenfurt. History Viktring Abbey was est ...

circa 1251. It was sold and converted into a mansion in 1608 and subsequently rebuilt a number of times.Slovenian Tourist Board site
/ref> The mansion was burned by the

Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, and Slovene language, Slovene: , officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska i partizanski odr ...

in January 1945.

Church

The church in the village is dedicated to Saint Anthony the Hermit and was originally built in the 13th century, but renovated in the 19th century in a

Baroque style The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s. It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo (i ...

References

External links

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Špitalič on Geopedia
{{DEFAULTSORT:Spitalic, Kamnik Populated places in the Municipality of Kamnik