Podplešivica () is a settlement in the

Municipality of Brezovica The Municipality of Brezovica ( sl, Občina Brezovica) is a municipality in central Slovenia, just south of its capital Ljubljana. It has approximately 9,300 inhabitants. Its administrative centre is the settlement of Brezovica pri Ljubljani. It ...

in central

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. It lies in the

marsh A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p Marshes can often be found at ...

lands south of the capital

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between Notranje Gorice and

Log pri Brezovici Log pri Brezovici () is a settlement southwest of Ljubljana in central Slovenia. It is the administrative centre of the Municipality of Log-Dragomer in the Inner Carniola region. The territory of the settlement is traversed by the A1 motorway, whi ...

. The municipality is part of the traditional region of

Inner Carniola Inner Carniola ( sl, Notranjska; german: Innerkrain) is a traditional region of Slovenia, the southwestern part of the larger Carniola region. It comprises the Hrušica karst plateau up to Postojna Gate, bordering the Slovenian Littoral (the ...

and is now included in the

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History

Podplešivica was formerly a hamlet of Plešivica. It became an independent settlement in 1987.Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia. Podplešivica.

Kuschlan Manor

Podplešivica is the site of Kuschlan Manor ( sl, Kušljanov grad''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 104–105.), also known as Kršljan Manor (). The manor was built below Vrbič Hill () in 1453. Because the wet ground of the marsh made it accessible from only one side, the manor was also known as ''Za blatom'' (literally, 'behind the mud', also ''Zaplata'') in Slovene, or ''Moosthal'' in German. It was first owned by the Mavrič family, later by the Gallen family, and from 1663 to 1826 by the barons of the Kuschlan family. It was considerably damaged by the

1895 Ljubljana earthquake An earthquake struck Ljubljana, the capital and largest city of Carniola, a crown land of Austria-Hungary and the capital of modern-day Slovenia, on Easter Sunday, 14 April 1895. It was the most, and the last, destructive earthquake in the area ...

References

External links

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Podplešivica on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Brezovica {{Brezovica-geo-stub