Elevation 339 m Population 1,631 (2012) | Time zone CET (UTC+01) Area 6 km² Local time Tuesday 7:26 PM | |
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Vodice ([ʋɔˈdiːtsɛ]; German: Woditz) is a settlement in the Municipality of Vodice in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia, just north of Ljubljana. In addition to the main population center of Vodice, the settlement includes the hamlets of Gornji Konec, Na Vasi (Slovene: Na vasi), Lokarje, Jegriše (or Jegrše), Mesto, Zaprice (German: Sapretz), and Pusence.
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Map of 1217 Vodice, Slovenia
Name
Vodice was first attested ca. 1118 with reference to its church as in plebe sancte Margarete virginis, and as Wodiz in 1257 (and as Woditç in 1265). The name is ultimately derived from the Slovene common noun vodica, a diminiutive of voda 'water, creek'. The name may therefore be based on the singular locative form *Vodicě (literally, 'by the small creek'), or may have originally been plural, referring to springs in the area. In the past the German name was Woditz.
Church
The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Margaret and was first mentioned in documents dating to 1118. It used to have a defensive wall around it to protect the population from Ottoman raids, but this was demolished in 1871. The church was damaged in the 1895 Ljubljana earthquake and was rebuilt in entirety from 1896 until 1900 upon the plans by the architect Raimund Jeblinger.