The oldest mentions of the villages Vižmarje and Tacen

Abstract

The author presents two documents which were ordered by the Count Meinhard of Tyrol-Gorizia and the Bishop Emicho of Freising in June 1283 near the Sava River under Šmarna gora. In the first one, written in Vižmarje near Ljubljana, the Count represented his brother Count Albert of Gorizia-Tyrol and in it he promised the Bishop in the name of his knight Arnold of Montalban a renunciation of revenge. In the second one, issued on the Sava ferry at Tacen, the Count received from the Bishop into his feud the castle Eyrs/Oris in the valley Vinschgau/Val Venosta in the South Tyrol. These are the oldest written mentions of the villages Vižmarje and Tacen. The Vižmarje document counts for the oldest preserved document written in German in the area of later Carniola in general.