Belski Vrh (, german: Welschaberg) is a settlement in the

Municipality of Zavrč The Municipality of Zavrč (; sl, Občina Zavrč) is a municipality in the Haloze area of Slovenia, on the border with Croatia. Its seat is the village of Zavrč. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now incl ...

in the Haloze area of eastern Slovenia. The area traditionally belonged to the

Styria Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...

region. It is now included in the

Drava Statistical Region The Drava Statistical Region ( sl, Podravska statistična regija) is a statistical region in Slovenia. The largest city in the region is Maribor. The region's name comes from the Drava River and includes land on both banks along its course thro ...

. The local church was destroyed by lightning in the 19th century. It was dedicated to

Saint Urban Pope Urban I (175?–230) ( la, Urbanus I) was the bishop of Rome from 222 to 23 May 230.Kirsch, Johann Peter (1912). "Pope Urban I" in ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company. He was born in Rome and succeeded ...

and was a

Late Gothic International Gothic is a period of Gothic art which began in Burgundy, France, and northern Italy in the late 14th and early 15th century. It then spread very widely across Western Europe, hence the name for the period, which was introduced by t ...

building. Some remains of the church and a nearby

keep A keep (from the Middle English ''kype'') is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars have debated the scope of the word ''keep'', but usually consider it to refer to large towers in c ...

are still visible.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number 18141

References

External links

Belski Vrh on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Zavrč {{Zavrč-geo-stub