Hinje (; german: Hinnach
[''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 174.]) is a small
village
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in the
Municipality of Žužemberk
The Municipality of Žužemberk (; sl, Občina Žužemberk) is a municipality southeast of the capital of Ljubljana in southeastern Slovenia. Its seat is the town of Žužemberk. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola. The m ...
in southeastern
Slovenia
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. The area is part of the historical region of
Lower Carniola
Lower Carniola ( sl, Dolenjska; german: Unterkrain) is a traditional region in Slovenia, the southeastern part of the historical Carniola region.
Geography
Lower Carniola is delineated by the Ljubljana Basin with the city of Ljubljana to the no ...
. The municipality is now included in the
Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region
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.
Name
Hinje was attested in written sources in 1372 as ''Bechyn'' (and as ''Hynoch'' in 1382 and ''Pchin'' in 1422). The name is derived from *''Bhinje'' or ''*Bihinje'', likely derived from the plural
demonym
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*''Byxyn′ane'' based on the
hydronym
A hydronym (from el, ὕδρω, , "water" and , , "name") is a type of toponym that designates a proper name of a body of water. Hydronyms include the proper names of rivers and streams, lakes and ponds, swamps and marshes, seas and oceans. As a ...
*''Byxyn′a'' (which yielded the name of Hinja Creek near
Hinje in the Municipality of Sevnica). The first unaccented syllable was lost through modern vowel reduction. The name therefore means 'people living along Hinja Creek' and may refer to settlers from the Hinja Creek area that moved to Hinje in the Municipality of Žužemberk. The village was known as ''Hinnach'' in German in the past.
Parish church
The local
parish church
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is dedicated to the
Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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and belongs to the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Novo Mesto
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Novo Mesto ( la, Dioecesis Novae Urbis; sl, Škofija Novo mesto) is a diocese in the city of Novo Mesto in the Ecclesiastical province of Ljubljana in Slovenia.
History
* April 7, 2006: Established as Diocese of ...
. The church, originally erected around 1800, was burned in January 1945, during World War II, by the
Slovene Partisans
The Slovene Partisans, formally the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Slovenia, (NOV in POS) were part of Europe's most effective anti-Nazi resistance movement Jeffreys-Jones, R. (2013): ''In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western ...
, and rebuilt only in 1971. It was reconsecrated in 1972.
Gallery
File:Postcard of Hinje, Žužemberk.jpg, Postcard of Hinje before World War II
References
External links
*
Hinje at Geopedia
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hinje, Zuzemberk
Populated places in the Municipality of Žužemberk