The settlement of Gozd Martuljek gets its name from a stream, and the house names of the village of Srednji Vrh date from the period of the Turkish invasions. After World War I, this was a vibrant area with flour mills, ironworks, wood skids and charcoal burners, which are now being revived as a part of local tradition.
The modern settlement of Gozd Martuljek is a wonderful mixture of unspoilt Alpine nature with mountain waterfalls, rich ethnographic heritage and the Martuljek mountain chain with its central rocky pyramid called Špik, giving the mountain faces a special charm.
The nicest view of the Martuljek mountain chain can be observed from the village of Srednji Vrh, from the opposite mountain chain of the Karavanke Mountains.