Podgorje ob Sevnični () is a
dispersed settlement in the hills north of
Sevnica in east-central
Slovenia. The area is part of the historical 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 ...
. The
Municipality of Sevnica
The Municipality of Sevnica ( sl, Občina Sevnica) is a municipality along the Sava and the Mirna Rivers in southeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Sevnica. Today it is part of the Lower Sava Statistical Region. It is th ...
is now included in the
Lower Sava Statistical Region.
Name
The name of the settlement was changed from ''Podgorje'' to ''Podgorje ob Sevnični'' in 1953.
Church
The local
church is dedicated to
Our Lady of the Rosary ( sl, sveta Marija Rožnovenska) and belongs to the
Parish of
Zabukovje. It has a
Romanesque core 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 17th century.
Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Zabukovje nad Sevnico include:
* (born 1956), carpentry engineer, businessman
*
Janez Zorko
Janez Zorko (born 1937 in Podgorje ob Sevnični) is a Slovenian sculptor and mountain climber. He attended art school from 1957 to 1959 in Ljubljana. He moved to Paris, France in 1964, and taught Materials and Technology courses at the Universit ...
(born 1937), sculptor and mountain climber
References
External links
Podgorje ob Sevnični on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Sevnica
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