Sveta Ana pri Ložu (; german: Sankt Anna) is a village east of

Podlož Podlož (, german: Podlaas) is a village north of Lož in the Municipality of Loška Dolina in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia. Church The local church is built on Cross Mountain ( sl, Križna gora, german: Kreuzberg; ), a hill above the set ...

in the

Municipality of Loška Dolina The Municipality of Loška Dolina (; sl, Občina Loška dolina) is a municipality in Slovenia. It is part of the Inner Carniola traditional region. Snežnik Castle and Cross Cave are located in the municipality. Its municipal seat is the town of ...

in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia.

History

A prehistoric cemetery was discovered in Sveta Ana pri Ložu, testifying to its early settlement. The oldest farm in the village is the Konte farm, dating from 1784.Kebe, Janez. 2006. Prva zapisana imena vasi v župnijah Stari trg in Babno Polje in zanimivosti, III. del. ''Obrh'' 7(5) (December): 30. Sveta Ana pri Ložu was part of Podlož until 2003, when it was separated from it and made a separate village.

Church

The village church is dedicated to Saint Anne and was built in 1526 incorporating an older structure.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 2331 It has a rectangular nave, a

bell-gable The bell gable ( es, espadaña, french: clocher-mur, it, campanile a vela) is an architectural element crowning the upper end of the wall of church buildings, usually in lieu of a church tower. It consists of a gable end in stone, with small ho ...

, and an octagonal chancel walled on three sides. The stone door casing bears the year 1672. The remains of a fresco from the early 15th century depicting Saint Christopher are found on the exterior north wall. There are pilgrims' signatures written in Glagolitic below the church's exterior fresco, indicating that pilgrims to Cross Mountain ( sl, Križna gora) came from as far away as the Croatian coast. The priest at Cross Mountain in 1749, Mihael Rede, was a user of Glagolitic. Until the First World War, the bell-gable of Saint Anne's Church had a bell inscribed with the year 1532 and the text ''GOT HIELFE AUS JEGLICHER NOT'' 'God helps in every need.'

Cultural heritage

There is a monument in the village commemorating Partisan soldiers killed in January 1945Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 17137 or 1944. The plaque was set up in 1950 and was reworked in 1985.

References

External links

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Sveta Ana pri Ložu on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Loška Dolina {{LoškaDolina-geo-stub