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Zgornje Pirniče

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Country
  
Slovenia

Statistical region
  
Central Slovenia

Area
  
2.76 km²

Local time
  
Sunday 7:27 PM

Traditional region
  
Upper Carniola

Elevation
  
340 m

Population
  
1,163 (2002)

Municipality
  
Medvode

Zgornje Pirniče

Weather
  
17°C, Wind W at 2 km/h, 48% Humidity

Zgornje Pirniče ([ˈzɡoːɾnjɛ ˈpiːɾnitʃɛ]; German: Oberpirnitsch) is a settlement in the Municipality of Medvode in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

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Map of 1215 Zgornje Pirni%C4%8De, Slovenia

Name

Zgornje Pirniče (literally, 'Upper Pirniče') and neighboring Spodnje Pirniče (literally, 'Lower Pirniče') were attested in written sources in 1392 as Pernekk (and as Pernek in 1394 and utrumque Bernh in an 18th-century copy of a document from 1118). The original form of the name may be reconstructed as the plural demonym *Pyrьničane, ultimately derived from the common noun *pyro 'spelt', referring to a local cultivar and meaning 'people living where spelt is grown'. Another possibility is that the name developed from a plural demonym derived from the Old High German name Ber(i)nhard or the Middle High German name Pern(a)hart.

Church

The parish church in the settlement was built in 1990 and is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary. There is also a chapel of ease in the village dedicated to Saint Thomas the Apostle. It has a late-Gothic chancel and a Baroque nave and bell tower.

References

Zgornje Pirniče Wikipedia