Gunclje (; german: Gunzle) is a settlement in central

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, immediately northwest of the capital

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. It belongs to the Šentvid District of the

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. It is part of the traditional region of

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and is now included with the rest of the municipality in the

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Name

Gunclje was first attested in written sources in 1430 as ''Güntzleinsdorff'', and later as ''zu Güntzlach'' in 1438 and ''Künczlach'' in 1455 (both based on the Slovene

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plural) and ''Güntzla'' (in 1449), among other spellings. The name ''Gunclje'' is derived from the Slavic personal name ''*Guncelj'' (derived in turn from

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''Gunzelîn'', a diminutive of ''Gunzo''), and likely refers to an early inhabitant of the place.

Cultural heritage

The village core of Gunclje, extending from the

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in the center of the village to a crucifix shrine at the edge of the woods, has been registered as cultural heritage. The village core preserves the character as a

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(a village lying almost entirely along a single road) with perpendicularly placed houses and farm buildings aligned with them. File:Gunclje Slovenia - Krvin House.JPG, The 17th-century Krvina House, the oldest house in Gunclje File:Gunclje Slovenia - wayside shrine.JPG,

Chapel-shrine A wayside shrine is a religious image, usually in some sort of small shelter, placed by a road or pathway, sometimes in a settlement or at a crossroads, but often in the middle of an empty stretch of country road, or at the top of a hill or mo ...

in the center of Gunclje File:Gunclje Slovenia - crucifix shrine.JPG, Crucifix shrine near the woods above Gunclje

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Gunclje include: *

Janez Bernik Janez Bernik (6 September 1933 – 15 July 2016) was a multiple-time awarded and internationally acclaimed Slovenian painter and academic. Bernik was born in the village of Gunclje, now part of Ljubljana. After finishing the Crafts School in L ...

(1933–2016), painterSavnik, Roman, ed. 1971. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. p. 385.

References

External links

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Gunclje on Geopedia
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