The Glinščica () is a stream in Slovenia.
Geography
The source of Glinščica Creek is on the eastern slope of Peštota Hill (590 m) below the settlement of
Toško Čelo and north of the
Kucja Valley. It then flows through the Ljubljana neighborhood of
Glinica (or Glince), between the neighborhoods of Kamna Gorica and Podutik (where it is crossed by the stone one-arch
Kavšek Bridge and a new bridge for motorized traffic), briefly along the
Path of Remembrance and Comradeship, and then southwest of Rožnik Hill and through the
Rožna Dolina
Rožna Dolina (; , ) is one of the four suburbs of the town of Nova Gorica in western Slovenia (the others being Solkan, Kromberk, and Pristava). It is on the border with Italy. Before 1947, it used to be a suburb of the town of Gorizia, which w ...
neighborhood before joining the
Gradaščica River in the
Vič District
The Vič District (; Slovene: ''Četrtna skupnost Vič''), or simply Vič, is a district () of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It encompasses the western part of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. It is named after the former village of Vič. ...
. Most of its lower course through Ljubljana is
channelized.
Name
Glinščica Creek was probably originally called the ''Glinica'', from which the names of Ljubljana's Glinica and
Glince neighborhoods were derived, after which the name ''Glinščica'' was re-derived from the settlement. In any case, both the name of the stream and the name of the settlement are derived from the common noun ''glina'' '
clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, ). Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impuriti ...
' via the derived noun ''*glinьnica'' '
clay pit
A clay pit is a quarry or Mining, mine for the extraction of clay, which is generally used for manufacturing pottery, bricks or Portland cement. Quarries where clay is mined to make bricks are sometimes called brick pits.
A brickyard or brickwor ...
'. The stream is also occasionally known as the ''Glanščica''.
History
Eyewitness reports state that Glinščica Creek was poisoned by seepage from the
Big Brezar Shaft () and ran red with blood after the post–Second World War massacre of POWs in the Kucja Valley.
[Dežman, Jože. 2008. ''Poročilo Komisije vlade Republike Slovenije za reševanje vprašanj prikritih grobišč: 2005–2008''. Ljubljana: Družina.]
File:Kavsek Bridge - Ljubljana Slovenia.JPG, The Kavšek Bridge crossing the Glinščica in Podutik was built in 1901.
File:Confluence of the Gradascica and Glinscica - Ljubljana Slovenia.JPG, Confluence of the Gradaščica River (left) with Glinščica Creek (right) in Vič
File:Glinscica 22 Oct 2014.JPG, The Glinščica flooding in 2014
References
External links
Glinščica Creek on Geopedia
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Rivers of Ljubljana