Podlehnik

Podlehnik
Občina Podlehnik
Town and Municipality
Postcard of Podlehnik

Location of the Municipality of Podlehnik in Slovenia
Podlehnik
Location of the Town of Podlehnik in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°20′N 15°53′E / 46.333°N 15.883°E / 46.333; 15.883Coordinates: 46°20′N 15°53′E / 46.333°N 15.883°E / 46.333; 15.883
Country  Slovenia
Government
 • Mayor Marko Maučič
Area
 • Total 46.0 km2 (17.8 sq mi)
Population (2002)[1]
 • Total 1,820
 • Density 40/km2 (100/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+01 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+02 (CEST)

Podlehnik (pronounced [pɔˈdleːxnik]; German: Lichtenegg[2]) is a settlement and a municipality in the Haloze Hills in eastern Slovenia. The area traditionally belonged to the region of Styria. It is now included in the Drava Statistical Region.[3]

The settlement developed around 13th-century Lehnik Castle. The castle was destroyed during Ottoman raids in 1532 and very few traces of it remain (foundations of a tower and a defense ditch).[4] What was originally the castle chapel is now the local church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and was expanded in the 16th and 18th centuries.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, census of 2002
  2. ↑ Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 4: Štajersko. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 238.
  3. ↑ Videm municipal site
  4. ↑ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number 537
  5. ↑ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number 3462


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