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Podlehnik
Občina Podlehnik
Town and Municipality
Postcard of Podlehnik
Postcard of Podlehnik
Location of the Municipality of Podlehnik in Slovenia
Location of the Municipality of Podlehnik in Slovenia
Country Slovenia
Government
 • MayorMarko Maučič
Area
 • Total
46.0 km2 (17.8 sq mi)
Population
 (2002)[1]
 • Total
1,820
 • Density40/km2 (100/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02 (CEST)

Podlehnik (Template:IPA-sl) 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.[2]

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).[3] 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.[4]

References

  1. ^ Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, census of 2002
  2. ^ Videm municipal site
  3. ^ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number 537
  4. ^ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number 3462


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