Moste, Žirovnica

Moste, Žirovnica
Moste
Moste is located in Slovenia
Moste
Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°24′31″N 14°8′22″E / 46.40861°N 14.13944°E / 46.40861; 14.13944Coordinates: 46°24′31″N 14°8′22″E / 46.40861°N 14.13944°E / 46.40861; 14.13944
Country Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia
Region Upper Carniola
Municipality Žirovnica
Elevation 567 m (1,860 ft)
Population (2002)
 – Total 546
[1]

Moste is one of ten villages in the Žirovnica municipality in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

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 centrury. 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.[2]

Moste is the location of the Moste Hydro Power Plant, the first hydro-electric power plant to have been built on the river Sava. It has a 60m high dam (the highest dam in Slovenia to date) in the Kavčke gorge.[3]

By the old road towards Jesenice there is also a monument to 30 hostages from the prison in Begunje executed by the Nazi German soldiers on 1 June 1942. 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.[4]

Moste Hydro Power Plant dam in the Kavčke gorge

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