Moste, Žirovnica

Moste (pronounced [ˈmoːstɛ]) is one of ten villages in the Municipality of Žirovnica in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

Moste
Moste is located in Slovenia
Moste
Moste
Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°24′31″N 14°8′22″E
Country Slovenia
Traditional regionUpper Carniola
Statistical regionUpper Carniola
MunicipalityŽirovnica
Elevation
567 m (1,860 ft)
Population
 (2002)
 • Total546
[1]

Hydroelectric plant
Moste hydroelectric dam in the Kavčke Gorge

Moste is the location of the Moste Hydroelectric Plant, the first hydro-electric power plant to have been built on the Sava Dolinka River. It has a 60-meter (200 ft) high dam (the highest dam in Slovenia to date) in the Kavčke Gorge,[2] right before the Sava is joined by the Radovna. The plant was built using forced labor by political prisoners from camps set up after the Second World War.[3]

Church
Saint Martin's Church

The church in the centre of the village is dedicated to Saint Martin. It is a single-aisle church with late Gothic features and frescoes on the interior dating to 1430. The altar dates to 1638 and the remaining church furnishings are from the 19th century. In the area around the church evidence of a burial ground from late Antiquity and the period of early Slavic settlement has also been discovered and the area has been officially protected as an archaeological monument.[4]

Cultural heritage

Along the old road to Jesenice there is also a monument to 30 prisoners from the prison in Begunje executed by German soldiers on 1 June 1942 in retaliation for the destruction of the railroad bridge four days earlier. In January 2008 the bronze centerpiece of this monument, a statue by the sculptor Jaka Torkar, was stolen and found cut up into pieces a few days later.[5] A replica statue was installed in 2009.[6]

Mass graves

Moste is the site of two known mass graves associated with the Second World War. The Baud Fallow 1 and 2 mass graves (Slovene: Grobišče Baudova ledina 1, 2) are located north of the settlement and contain the remains of six to 12 Croatian soldiers. The first grave lies in a former gravel pit in a clearing, surrounded by bushes. The grave site has been leveled off.[7] The second grave lies in the woods north of the first, on a small plateau, next to a fence at the bottom of the slope of Mount Ajdna.[8]

References
  1. Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. Moste Hydroelectric Plant website
  3. Milko Mikola (2008). "Communist Concentration Camps and Labor Camps in Slovenia". In Jambrek, Peter (ed.). Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes (PDF). Brussels: Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. p. 153. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
  4. Municipality of Jesenice 17 February 1987 Declaration on Cultural and Historical Monuments in the municipality
  5. Gorenjski glas newspaper (in Slovene) Archived 17 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  6. Hartman, Ana (1 July 2009). "V Mostah odkrili nov kip". Gorenjski glas. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  7. Ferenc, Mitja (December 2009). "Grobišče Baudova ledina 1". Geopedia (in Slovenian). Ljubljana: Služba za vojna grobišča, Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
  8. Ferenc, Mitja (December 2009). "Grobišče Baudova ledina 2". Geopedia (in Slovenian). Ljubljana: Služba za vojna grobišča, Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
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