Heritage of Kranj

EN Thirty sites of the Municipality of Kranj Heritage of Kranj Preface At the Kranj Tourist Board we decided to publish a brochure containing all the basic information on the exquisite cultural and natural monuments, museums and galleries in the City Municipality of Kranj. We would like to familiarise visitors with the city and guide them through the oldest archaeological discoveries and show them our modern architecture and technical heritage. We would like to take them to all the secret places in the wonderful natural surroundings of the city and to all the interesting places that the Kokra river canyon has hidden from curious eyes. A rich cultural, natural and technical heritage, intertwined with famous Slovenian names that have made a memorable con- tribution to the city of Kranj, all meet in this publication as a part of the past, which we cherish and gladly offer to tourists. The places were chosen according to the already existing tourist offer in Kranj, the wishes of tourists and what we are most proud of. It is our wish that the publication serve as an encouragement to stroll the rural surroundings and the city itself, and also, as an invitation to revisit the City Municipality of Kranj. We believe that there is so much to see in Kranj that one day does not suffice to see it all. Natalija Polenec, Director Index 1 City Hall 2 Pre{eren Memorial Museum 3 France Pre{eren 4 Pre{eren’s grove 5 Simon Jenko 6 The parish church of St. Kancijan 7 The ossuary 8 Pungert with the two towers and the church 9 Kranj’s defence walls 10 Khislstein castle and country mansion (Ulrih's house) 11 Tollhouse 12 Pirc’s dye-works 13 Pav{lar’s house 14 Layer’s house 15 Leopold Layer 16 Janez Puhar 17 Janez Bleiweis 18 Jo`e Ple~nik in Kranj 19 Slovenski trg 20 The water tower 21 The tunnels of Kranj 22 The canyon of Kokra 23 The giant sequoia in Kranj 24 Udin bor{t 25 Ponds in Bobovek 26 The [um waterfall 27 The Trboje Lake 28 The Brdo castle 29 Park Brdo 30 The Chapel of St. Peter under the hill [marjetna gora 1 City Hall The City Hall’s present form was made by joining two build- ings, the older corner building (a clock tower and a classicis- tic colonnade shed) and a newer building on the square Glavni trg, where the entrance is today. The most interesting part of the corner building is a late-Gothic colonnade hall1 dating back to the first half of the 16th century, which you can now enter through the entrance hall and a former black kitchen. On fair days this room was used for events and most likely also for storing goods. The newer building, leaning closely against the older one is better known, with its empha- sized spindle in the façade part and a hall on the first floor (today’s wedding hall) that dates back to 1638 and furnished with a wooden coffered ceiling and two marquetry portals. It is one of the finest Renaissance castles from the 16th and 17th century in Slovenia. Address: Glavni trg 4, Kranj. In the City Hall, the Renaissance Hall and three permanent exhibitions are put on show: the works of an academic sculptor Lojze Dolinar (1893-1970), the archaeological exhibition Iron Thread and the ethnological exhibition Folk Art in Gorenjska. The Kranj Art Society and the City Hall galleries are situated on the ground floor. Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., closed on Mondays; closed on 1.1., 1.5. and 1.11. Entrance fee: adults 2.30 EUR, young or retired 1.70 EUR, groups above 10 - adults 1.90 EUR, groups above 10 - young 1.50 EUR, family 4.20 EUR, guided tour through Pre{eren’s grove 0.50 EUR per person. When Dr. France Pre{eren (1846-1849) lived here, the house was owned by Franc Mayr, a merchant and brewer. The house was rearranged into a museum in 1964 according to the design of the architect Tone Bitenc. On the frontage there is a memorial plaque, unveiled on the centenary of the poet’s birth. The house comprises two parts that were joined in the 17th century, first with a wooden and later, stone arcade hall- way. A painting from the 19th century was discovered on the ground floor after the last renovation on the bicentenary of the poet’s birth (2000). Art exhibitions and smaller cultural events take place here, while on the first floor there is a memorial museum with the poet’s original works and valuable early prints as well as a room furnished with original furniture. Pre{eren Memorial Museum 2 Address: Pre{ernova ulica 7, Kranj. The building is owned by the Municipality of Kranj and administered by the Gorenjska museum. Inside one can find the Pre{eren memorial museum and a museum shop. Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., closed on Mondays; closed on 1.1., 1.5. and 1.11. Entrance fee: Adults 2.30 EUR, young or retired 1.70 EUR, groups above 10 - adults 1.90 EUR, groups above 10 - young 1.50 EUR, family 4.20 EUR. France Pre{eren Today France Pre{eren is known as the greatest Slovene poet. He was born on the 3rd of December 1800 to a peasant family in Vrba na Gorenjskem. After graduating from the Vienna law faculty he worked in Ljubljana as a lawyer with Dr. Bla` Crobath. Most of his poems were written there. The last3 years of his life, Pre{eren lived in Kranj. In 1846 he was admitted as a provincial barrister in Kranj, and opened an independent practice here. He died of illness in Kranj on the 8th of February 1849. In Kranj the memory of the poet France Pre{eren is marked in various ways. The grave of the poet is in Pre{eren’s grove. On Pre{eren Street in the old town centre is the memorial museum of Dr. France Pre{eren; it is located in the house where the poet worked and lived in the last years of his life. On the first and the second floor of Pavšlar’s house, on the square Glavni trg 18 in Kranj, there is the Prešern Prize-win- ners gallery. In front of Pre{eren’s theatre stands a bronze sculpture of the poet, created by Fran~i{ek Smrduj and Peter Loboda. Since 1969 the Academic choir France Pre{eren Kranj has worked in Kranj, and also an elementary school and municipal awards in the field of art and culture are named after the poet. The Municipality of Kranj celebrates its municipal holiday on the date of the poet’s birth, 3rd of December, while various events also take place on the 8th of February, honouring the anniversary of the poet’s death. Pre{eren’s grove The cemetery by the parish church in the old town centre was abandoned in 1798 and burials moved to a new cemetery outside the city walls. In the years immediately prior to the Second World War, burials at that cemetery ceased as well and in 1951 the cemetery was rearranged into a memorial park according to the design of the architects Marjan [orli and Ru{ka Ogorevc. The most important monuments in the park are: the tombstone of poet Dr. France Pre{eren dated 1852 (made by Ignacij Toman jr.), the tombstone of poet Simon Jenko (1873, made by Janez Vurnik), Majdi~’s vault 4with marble relief “Resurrection” (1910, Ivan Zajc) and a memorial to the Bazovica victims and Vladimir Gortan shot in Pulj, which is one of the earliest memorials to the victims of fascism in Europe (1931). Address: entrance from Gregor~i~eva ulica or from Partizanska cesta, Kranj Simon Jenko 5 The poet and writer was born on the 27th of October 1835 in Podre~a near Mav~i~e. Between 1864 and 1866 Jenko lived in Kranj and worked as a probationer with a famous notary in Kranj. Later he worked as a clerk in Kamnik, but a few months before his death he returned to Kranj, where he died on the 18th of October 1869, aged 33. The house where the Slovene poet Simon Jenko lived and died is on the Pot na kolodvor in the old town centre. On the house there is a memorial plaque the city unveiled on the 60th anniversary of the national reading club on the 2nd of September 1923. Jenko’s memorial tombstone stands in Pre{eren’s grove, which dates back to 1873, designed and made by Janez Vurnik, a stonecutter from Radovljica. An elementary school and a street in Kranj are named after Jenko. The parish church 6 of St. Kancijan A triple-nave church, i.e. a hall type from the beginning of the 15th century is the most important building in the town’s veduta and is one of the most important monuments in Gothic architecture in Slovenia as well as a model for many later churches (Radovljica, [kofja Loka, Kamnik, [entrupert na Dolenjskem). Archaeological research performed in 1972 and1984 showed that already in the pre-Slavonic era a sacral building stood in the place of today’s Gothic church dedica- ted to the martyrs of Oglej: the saints Kancij, Kancijan, Kancijanila and Prot. The presbytery of today’s church was built onto an older nave in 1413 and is a classical example of the so-called long choir.

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