Spodnji Gabernik () is a settlement in the

Municipality of Rogaška Slatina The Municipality of Rogaška Slatina (; sl, Občina Rogaška Slatina) is a municipality in the traditional region of Lower Styria, Styria in northeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Rogaška Slatina. Rogaška Slatina be ...

in eastern Slovenia. The entire area is part of the traditional region of

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. It is now included in the

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Name

The name of the village was changed from ''Spodnji Gabrnik'' to ''Spodnji Gabernik'' in 2002.

Church

The local church is dedicated to Saint Rosalia and belongs to the Parish of

Kostrivnica Kostrivnica () is a dispersed settlement in the Municipality of Šentjur, in eastern Slovenia. It lies in the northern part of the Sava Hills ( sl, Posavsko hribovje) north of Planina. The settlement, and the entire municipality, are included i ...

. It was first mentioned in written documents dating to 1545, but the current single- nave building with a small

bell tower A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell tower ...

saddling the roof at its western end was rebuilt in 1861.

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Spodnji Gabernik include: *

Bertha von Suttner Bertha Sophie Felicitas Freifrau von Suttner (; ; 9 June 184321 June 1914) was an Austrian-Bohemian pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate (after Marie Curie in 1903), the first woman to be awarded the Nobel ...

(1843–1914), Austrian-Bohemian pacifist and novelist

References

External links

Spodnji Gabernik on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Rogaška Slatina {{RogaškaSlatina-geo-stub