Muljava

Muljava ( German Mullau ) is an elongated from west to east village in Slovenian Dolenjsko, 35 kilometers east of Ljubljana and about 6 km south from the Stična monastery, not far south of Gorenja vas. Postal ( PLZ.: SLO 1295) and administratively it belongs to the municipality Ivančna Gorica.

History

Muljava appears as Mullau or Müllau in early Urbarialurkunden the monastery parakeet. Even with Valvasor comes in his description of the monastery parakeet before the name Mullau, but transformed by the pressure devil in Mulara.

Attractions

At the western end of the town the birthplace of the Slovene writer and narrator Josip Jurčič is ( 1840-1881 ). It was built in 1826 by his grandfather. The house has been preserved in its original form and is regarded as a precious testimony of old Slovenian peasant architecture. At the house, which is set up as an ethnographic museum, a memorial tablet, reminiscent of Jurčič. In the valley behind the house are presented in the summer months in the open-air theater by the local theater club performances annually from Jurčičs works.

In the eastern part of the town is a small Gothic church Marije Vnebovzete device ( the Virgin of the Assumption ) with a cemetery. Both are surrounded by a low circular wall. Josip Jurčič describes both in his narrative Jurij Kozjak - slovenski Janičar ( Georg von Kosiack - Slovenian Janitschtare ) according to an authentic event, as in 1475, on April 25, the day of St. Mark the Evangelist a troop of Turkish rider unexpectedly appeared in Muljava and there gathered to the procession amount surprised.