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Spodnje Pirniče
Spodnje PirničeLocation in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°8′7.72″N 14°26′16.01″E / 46.1354778°N 14.4377806°E / 46.1354778; 14.4377806
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Upper Carniola
Statistical region	Central Slovenia
Municipality	Medvode
Area
• Total	1.5 km (0.6 sq mi)
Elevation	332.3 m (1,090.2 ft)
Population
• Total	724

Spodnje Pirniče (pronounced [ˈspoːdnjɛ ˈpiːɾnitʃɛ]; German: Unterpirnitsch) is a village on the left bank of the Sava River in the Municipality of Medvode in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

Name

Spodnje Pirniče (literally, 'Lower Pirniče') and neighboring Zgornje Pirniče (literally, 'Upper 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 local church is dedicated to the Feast of the Holy Cross.

Notable residents

• Franc Rozman

References

1. Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
2. Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 114.
3. Medvode municipal site
4. Snoj, Marko (2009). Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan. p. 307.
5. Official Journal of the Republic of Slovenia, 26 January 1990, p. 263

External links

• Media related to Spodnje Pirniče at Wikimedia Commons
• Spodnje Pirniče on Geopedia

v t e Municipality of Medvode
Settlements	Administrative seat: Medvode Current Belo Brezovica pri Medvodah Dol Dragočajna Golo Brdo Goričane Hraše Ladja Moše Osolnik Rakovnik Seničica Setnica Smlednik Sora Spodnja Senica Spodnje Pirniče Studenčice Tehovec Topol pri Medvodah Trnovec Valburga Vaše Verje Vikrče Zavrh pod Šmarno Goro Zbilje Zgornja Senica Zgornje Pirniče Žlebe Former Preska pri Medvodah Svetje
Landmarks	Goričane Manor Smlednik Calvary Smlednik Castle ruins Lake Trboje Lake Zbilje

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