Podbrdo (; , ) is a settlement in the

Municipality of Tolmin The Municipality of Tolmin (; ) is a municipality in northwestern Slovenia. Its seat and largest settlement is Tolmin. It borders Italy. History In ancient times the area was inhabited by the Illyrians and then by the Romans. In the 6th century ...

in the

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region of

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. It lies in narrow valley of the Bača River, next to the

Bohinj Railway The Bohinj Railway (, , ) is a railway in Slovenia and Italy. It connects Jesenice in Slovenia with Trieste in Italy. It was built by Austria-Hungary from 1900 to 1906 as a part of a new strategic railway, the Neue Alpenbahnen, that would conn ...

line at the end of the longest railway

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in Slovenia (6,327.3 m) and next to the road from

Bohinjska Bistrica Bohinjska Bistrica (; ) is the largest settlement and administrative centre of the Municipality of Bohinj, in the Upper Carniola region of northwestern Slovenia. Geography The settlement lies in the Julian Alps southwest of the Triglav massif an ...

and

Železniki Železniki (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 66–67.) is a small town in Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Železni ...

across

Petrovo Brdo Petrovo Brdo () is a village in the Municipality of Tolmin in the Littoral region of Slovenia on the border with the Upper Carniola region. It lies on the road just below a pass that connects the two regions, on the drainage divide between the B ...

towards

Most na Soči Most na Soči (; formerly ''Sveta Lucija'' or ''Sveta Lucija na Mostu'', ) is a town in the Municipality of Tolmin in the Littoral region of Slovenia. It is located on a rocky crest above the confluence of Soča and Idrijca rivers. In the past th ...

Name

The name ''Podbrdo'' is a fused prepositional phrase that has lost its case inflection, from ''pod'' 'under' + ''brdo'' 'hill', thus referring to the local geography.

History

The settlement was founded in the 16th century by German-speaking settlers from

Tyrol Tyrol ( ; historically the Tyrole; ; ) is a historical region in the Alps of Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary, f ...

, but the area was settled earlier.

Church

The most important building in the village is the

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; it is dedicated to

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and belongs to the

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.Koper Diocese list of churches
It dates from the

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period.

Other cultural heritage

Podbrdo railway station Podbrdo railway station (; ; ) serves the settlement of Podbrdo, Tolmin, Podbrdo, in the Municipalities of Slovenia, municipality of Tolmin, Slovenia. Location The station forms part of the Bohinj Railway between Jesenice railway station, Jeseni ...

, on the

, was a border crossing point between the

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and the

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between

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and

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. There are also many 19th-century houses, a

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to the workers that died during

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of the

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, and

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s to the uprising against

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(between World War I and World War II, when Podbrdo, then named Piedicolle, was part of Italy).

Natural heritage

Podbrdo is surrounded by many attractive

mountain A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher t ...

s such as Slatnik (1589 m), Lajnar (1549 m), Bača Peak (''Vrh Bače'', 1281 m),

Črna Prst Črna Prst is a mountain in the southeastern Julian Alps, on the edge of Triglav National Park in Slovenia. Standing at , it is the 370th–highest peak in Slovenia. During the interwar period, the mountain ridge formed part of the border between ...

(1844 m), Kobla (1498 m), and

Porezen Mount Porezen is a mountain of the outlying Alps located in northwestern Slovenia. It is the highest summit of the Slovenian Prealps. Geography The mountain belongs to the Gorizia Statistical Region. Access to the summit The suggested route ...

(1622 m).
The sunny side of Črna Prst has attracted

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s for more than 200 years. In the mountain

meadow A meadow ( ) is an open habitat or field, vegetated by grasses, herbs, and other non- woody plants. Trees or shrubs may sparsely populate meadows, as long as they maintain an open character. Meadows can occur naturally under favourable con ...

s it is possible to find a number of rare species: *Short-haired sandwort (''

Moehringia villosa ''Moehringia villosa'', commonly known as the short-haired sandwort, is a flowering plant of the family Caryophyllaceae. It is endemic to Slovenia where it has a very limited range with an extent of occurrence of less than in the southern part ...

''), an endemic flower of Bača *Silvery crane's bill ('' Geranium argenteum'') *Alpine sea holly ('' Eryngium alpinum'') *'' Tephroseris pseudocrispa'' *'' Campanula zoysii'' *'' Artemisia nitida''

References

External links

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Podbrdo on GeopediaPodbrdo primary school
{{Tolmin Populated places in the Municipality of Tolmin