Motnik

Motnik
Motnik
Motnik Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°12′58.17″N 14°53′25.72″E / 46.2161583°N 14.8904778°ECoordinates: 46°12′58.17″N 14°53′25.72″E / 46.2161583°N 14.8904778°E
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Upper Carniola
Statistical region	Central Slovenia
Municipality	Kamnik
Area
• Total	2.27 km^2 (0.88 sq mi)
Elevation	428.2 m (1,404.9 ft)
Population (2002)
• Total	163
[1]

Motnik (pronounced [mɔˈtniːk]; German: Möttnig^[2]) is a village in the Tuhinj Valley in the Municipality of Kamnik in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

The parish church in Motnik is dedicated to Saint George and is a Baroque building with 19th-century furnishings. Close by is a smaller church, the chapel of Mary Magdalene. Close to the settlement is also an abandoned brown coal mine in which the fossilized remains of a pygmy rhinoceros were discovered in 1910. They were found to be 25 million years old and are now displayed in a small museum in the village.^[3]

References

1. Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
2. Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 28.
3. Slovenian Tourist Board site

External links

• Motnik.net
• Motnik at Geopedia.si (map, aerial photograph)
• Motnik on Google Maps (map, photographs, street view)