Brezovica pri Trebelnem () is a small settlement in the
Municipality of Mokronog-Trebelno
The Municipality of Mokronog-Trebelno (; sl, Občina Mokronog - Trebelno) is a municipality in Slovenia. The municipality was created in 2006, when it seceded from the Municipality of Trebnje. It is part of the traditional province of Lower Carn ...
in southeastern
Slovenia. It lies in the hills south of
Mokronog
Mokronog (; german: Nassenfuß''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 82–83.) is a settlement in the Municipality of Mokronog-Trebelno in ...
. The area is part of the historical region of
Lower Carniola. The municipality is now included in the
Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.
Name
The name of the settlement was changed from ''Brezovica'' to ''Brezovica pri Trebelnem'' in 1953.
Church
The local
church in the settlement is dedicated to
Saint Anne
According to Christian apocryphal and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the canonical gospels. In writing, Anne's name and that of her husband Joachim come o ...
and belongs to the
Parish of Mokronog. It was first mentioned in written documents dating to 1526 and was restyled in the
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
in the mid-18th century. The main
altar dates to 1776.
References
External links
Brezovica pri Trebelnem on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Mokronog-Trebelno
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