Preddvor (; german: Höflein''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 54.) is a town in

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. It is the seat of the

Municipality of Preddvor The Municipality of Preddvor (; sl, Občina Preddvor) is a municipality in Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Preddvor. The municipality was established on 3 October 1994, when the former larger Municipality of Kranj was subd ...

Name

The settlement was first attested in written sources in 1147 as ''Niwenhouen'' (literally, 'new manor') and as ''Neunhouen'' in 1238 and ''Vorm hoff'' (literally, 'in front of the manor') in 1488. The Slovene name ''Preddvor'' is a fused prepositional phrase that has lost its case inflection, from ''pred'' 'in front of' + ''dvor'' 'manor'. In the past the German name was ''Höflein''.

Mass grave

Preddvor is the site of a

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associated with the Second World War. The Danica Mansion Mass Grave ( sl, Grobišče pri vili Danica) is located between the Danica Mansion and Lake Črnava, near the third light post from the lake. Human remains were unearthed here during excavation work in 1970. The remainder of the work avoided the area.

Preddvor Castle

Preddvor Castle ( sl, Grad Preddvor), also known as the Wurzbach Manor (), stands in the middle of the town. It was first mentioned in written sources in 1147,Preddvor. Kulturna dediščina.
when it was granted to

Viktring Abbey Viktring Abbey (german: Stift Viktring, sl, Opatija Vetrinj) is a former Cistercian monastery in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Stift Viktring is now the name of the Roman Catholic parish in Viktring, since 1973 a district of the Carinthian ca ...

by Berthold II. It was taken over by Stična Abbey in 1608, which used it as a recuperation facility for ill and elderly monks. It was then purchased by the Wurzbach family; the physician Arthur Wurzbach sold the castle's land and farm buildings, and converted the building for tourism in 1920. It was sold again in 1936 and converted into a sanatorium with the name Hotel Grintavec. During the Second World War, the castle was used by the German military and police. In 1945 it served as a collection center for children from Bosnia, and in 1947 as a juvenile correction facility. After this it fell into disrepair.

Church

The church in Preddvor is dedicated to

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. It dates from the mid-18th century and contains a painting of the

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(1825–1884) and frescoes by

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(1852–1915). The chapel in front of the church has paintings by Leopold Layer (1752–1828).

References

External links

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