Podolševa ( or ; formerly ''Sveti Duh'', german: Heiligengeist''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 4: ''Štajersko''. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 47.) is a dispersed settlement in the Municipality of Solčava in northern

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...

. The area belongs to the traditional region of

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and is now included in the

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Geography

The territory of the settlement includes Potok Cave ( sl, Potočka zijalka), named after the Potok Farm. The archaeologist

Srečko Brodar Srečko Brodar (May 6, 1893 – April 27, 1987) was a Slovene archaeologist, internationally best known for excavation of Potok Cave ( sl, Potočka zijalka), an Upper Palaeolithic cave site in northern Slovenia. Life Brodar studied at the Univ ...

carried out excavations at Potok Cave. The Bukovnik farm in the eastern part of the settlement, which lies at an elevation of , is the highest-elevation farm in Slovenia.

Name

The name of the settlement was changed from ''Sveti Duh'' (literally, 'Holy Spirit'), referring the local church, to ''Podolševa'' in 1953. The name was changed on the basis of the 1948 Law on Names of Settlements and Designations of Squares, Streets, and Buildings as part of efforts by Slovenia's postwar communist government to remove religious elements from toponyms. The name ''Podolševa'' is a fused prepositional phrase that has lost its case inflection, from ''pod'' 'below' + ''

Olševa Mount Olševa (; German ''Ouschewa'') is a ridge mountain in the eastern part of the Karawanks near the border with Austria. The mountain separates Carinthia from Styria. Its highest point, Govca, is high. Other peaks along the ridge are ''Obel ...

'', thus referring to the settlement's location below Mount Olševa. In the past the German name was ''Heiligengeist''.

Church

The local church is dedicated to the

Holy Spirit In Judaism, the Holy Spirit is the divine force, quality, and influence of God over the Universe or over his creatures. In Nicene Christianity, the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost is the third person of the Trinity. In Islam, the Holy Spirit acts as ...

and belongs to the

Parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

of Solčava. It was first mentioned in written documents dating to 1631.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number 3382

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Populated places in the Municipality of Solčava {{Solčava-geo-stub