Gora, Krško
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Gora (; german: Sankt Lorenzberg''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 76.) is a small
village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...
in the hills northwest of Leskovec in the
Municipality of Krško A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in eastern
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. The area is part of the traditional region of
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. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the
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.


Name

The name of the settlement was changed from ''Gora Svetega Lovrenca'' (literally, 'Mount Saint Lawrence') to ''Gora'' (literally, 'mountain') in 1955. The name was changed on the basis of the 1948 Law on Names of Settlements and Designations of Squares, Streets, and Buildings as part of efforts by Slovenia's postwar communist government to remove religious elements from toponyms. In the past the German name was ''Sankt Lorenzberg''.


Church

The local church, built in the northern part of the village, is dedicated to Saint Lawrence 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 o ...
of Krško. It is a Romanesque building that was partly rebuilt in the 19th century. Some
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material was re-used in the original construction of the church.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 1953


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External links


Gora on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Krško {{Krško-geo-stub