Spodnje Pirniče

Spodnje Pirniče
Spodnje Pirniče Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°8′7.72″N 14°26′16.01″E
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Upper Carniola
Statistical region	Central Slovenia
Municipality	Medvode
Area
• Total	1.5 km2 (0.6 sq mi)
Elevation	332.3 m (1,090.2 ft)
Population  (2002)
• 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

Holy Cross Church

The local church is dedicated to the Feast of the Holy Cross.

Notable residents

• Franc Rozman

External links

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