Brezje pri Bojsnem (; german: Bresje
) is a small settlement to the north of
Bojsno in the
Municipality of Brežice in eastern
Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...
. The area is part of the traditional region of
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 ...
. It is now included in the
Lower Sava Statistical Region.
Name
The name of the settlement was changed from ''Brezje'' to ''Brezje pri Bojsnem'' in 1953. In the past the German name was ''Bresje''.
Church
The local
church
Church may refer to:
Religion
* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
* Chris ...
is dedicated to
Saint Ulrich ( sl, sveti Urh) and belongs to the
Parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...
of
Pišece
Pišece (, german: Pischätz) is a village in the hills west of Bizeljsko in the Municipality of Brežice in eastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Styria, Styria. It is now included with the rest of the municipality ...
. It is a small church with a rectangular
floor plan, a semi-circular
apse
In architecture, an apse (plural apses; from Latin 'arch, vault' from Ancient Greek 'arch'; sometimes written apsis, plural apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an ''exedra''. In ...
, and a
belfry over its main entrance. It was built in the 19th century.
Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number 3248
References
External links
Brezje pri Bojsnem on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Brežice
{{Brežice-geo-stub