Šentpavel ( or ; in older sources ''Sveti Paul''
[''Intelligenzblatt zur Laibacher Zeitung'', no. 141. 24 November 1849, p. 21.] or ''Šent Pavel'',
[''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 108.] german: Sankt Paul
) is a settlement in the hills southeast of the capital
Ljubljana
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in central
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. It belongs to the
City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is part of the traditional region of
Lower Carniola and is now included with the rest of the municipality in the
Central Slovenia Statistical Region.
Name
Šentpavel is named for the local church, dedicated to
Saint Paul
Paul; grc, Παῦλος, translit=Paulos; cop, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; hbo, פאולוס השליח (previously called Saul of Tarsus;; ar, بولس الطرسوسي; grc, Σαῦλος Ταρσεύς, Saũlos Tarseús; tr, Tarsuslu Pavlus; ...
. The settlement is also known as ''Šempav'' in the local dialect (resulting in the
demonym
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''Šempavec'' and the adjective ''šempavski'').
[Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, p. 367.] The name of the settlement was changed from ''Šent Pavel'' to ''Šentpavel'' in 1955. In the past the German name was ''Sankt Paul''.
History
A level area on Molnik Hill, west-southwest of the village, suggests that a fortification may have stood here in the past.
South of the village is the ruin of a house known as Anžek. It has a hole in the ground lined with stones where flax was scutched in the past. During the Second World War a
Partisan
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group known as the Molnik Company ( sl, Molniška četa) was stationed on Molnik Hill.
On 4 July 1945 a detachment of Yugoslav military police (KNOJ) abducted eight men from the village and murdered them in the forest between the Reka River and the hamlet of Razore in the village of
Zagradišče. Their bodies were discovered buried in two pits in the woods. The villagers wanted to rebury them in the Šentpavel cemetery, but the bodies were taken away by the authorities and reburied anonymously, presumably in a mass grave at Saint Ulrich's Church in the Ljubljana neighborhood of
Dobrunje
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. A memorial to the victims was erected in the village cemetery on 15 July 1990.
Church
The local
church
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is dedicated to
Saint Paul
Paul; grc, Παῦλος, translit=Paulos; cop, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; hbo, פאולוס השליח (previously called Saul of Tarsus;; ar, بولس الطرسوسي; grc, Σαῦλος Ταρσεύς, Saũlos Tarseús; tr, Tarsuslu Pavlus; ...
and belongs to the Parish of
Sostro
Sostro (; german: Sostru''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna.) is a formerly independent settlement in the eastern part of the capital Ljublj ...
. It is a single-nave church with an apse with late Gothic painting. Its architecture attests to a medieval origin. It has a
bell-gable
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, a wooden portico, and a walled cemetery. It was remodeled in the 17th century and the main altar with a painting of Saint Paul was created in 1878 by
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(1820–1884). The
chancel
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Ove ...
was rebuilt and painted in 1668. The walls are decorated with remnants of images of the twelve apostles, and winged symbols representing the four evangelists decorate the vault.
[Cultural heritage sign at the church.] A side altar dedicated to Saint Wolfgang dates from the end of the 17th century.
Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Šentpavel include:
*
Jerica Zemljan (1879–1942), writer and household economics teacher
References
External links
*
Šentpavel on Geopedia
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Populated places in the City Municipality of Ljubljana
Sostro District