Bitnje (, german: Wittnach) is a settlement on the left bank of the Sava Bohinjka River in the

Municipality of Bohinj The Municipality of Bohinj ( sl, Občina Bohinj) is a municipality in the Upper Carniola region of northwest Slovenia. Its seat is the settlement of Bohinjska Bistrica. The municipality had 5,222 inhabitants in 2002. Settlements In addition to t ...

in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

Name

Bitnje was attested in written sources as ''Pitenach'' in 1185, ''Witniach'' 1330, and ''Bittnach'' in 1494, among other spellings. The name is derived from the personal name ''Bytъ'', which is also the basis of the name '' Bitnje'' near

Kranj Kranj (, german: Krainburg) is the third-largest city in Slovenia, with a population of 37,941 (2020). It is located approximately northwest of Ljubljana. The centre of the City Municipality of Kranj and of the traditional region of Upper Carniol ...

as well as related place names such as ''

Bitiče Bitiče (; german: Vititsch''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 93.) is a small settlement in the Municipality of Litija in central Sloven ...

''.

Church

The originally

Gothic Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths **Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...

medieval village church that has been redesigned in the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

style is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. It features a beautiful Renaissance portal.Bohinj municipal site

References

External links

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Bitnje on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Bohinj {{Bohinj-geo-stub