Loke () is a small settlement in the hills immediately northwest of
Leskovec pri Krškem
Leskovec pri Krškem ( or ; german: Haselbach''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 76–77.) is a settlement on the right bank of the Sava ...
in the
Municipality of Krško in eastern
Slovenia
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. The area is part of the traditional region of
Lower Carniola. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the
Lower Sava Statistical Region. It includes an isolated vacation estate on Saint Florian Hill ( sl, Florjanov hrib) east of the settlement, known as Florijanovo (german: Thalhof
[''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 77.]).
There is 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 settlement, 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 ...
. It was built in the early 20th century.
Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 16234
References
External links
Loke on Geopedia
Populated places in the City Municipality of Krško
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