Gorenja Vas pri Polici (; sl, Gorenja vas pri Polici, german: Oberdorf
) is a small settlement in the hills north of
Polica in the
Municipality of Grosuplje
The Municipality of Grosuplje (; sl, Občina Grosuplje) is a municipality in central Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Grosuplje. It lies just south of the capital Ljubljana in the traditional region of Lower Carniola. It is ...
in central
Slovenia
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. The area is part of the historical region of
Lower Carniola. The municipality is now included in the
Central Slovenia Statistical Region.
Name
The name of the settlement was changed from ''Gorenja vas'' to ''Gorenja vas pri Polici'' in 1953. In the past the German name was ''Oberdorf''.
Cultural heritage
A small
chapel-shrine
A wayside shrine is a religious image, usually in some sort of small shelter, placed by a road or pathway, sometimes in a settlement or at a crossroads, but often in the middle of an empty stretch of country road, or at the top of a hill or mo ...
in the village is dedicated to the
Virgin Mary
Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother o ...
and was built in 1911.
References
External links
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Gorenja Vas pri Polici on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Grosuplje
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