Selnica ob Dravi () is a village on the left bank of the

Drava The Drava or Drave''Utrata Fachwörterbuch ...

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...

. It is the seat of the

Municipality of Selnica ob Dravi The Municipality of Selnica ob Dravi ( sl, Občina Selnica ob Dravi) is a municipality in the traditional region of Styria in northeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Selnica ob Dravi. Selnica ob Dravi became a municipa ...

. The

parish church A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish. In many parts of the world, especially in rural areas, the parish church may play a significant role in community activities, ...

in the village is dedicated to Saint Margaret and belongs to the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor ( la, Archidioecesis Mariborensis, sl, Nadškofija Maribor) is an archdiocese located in the city of Maribor in Slovenia. History * 1859 : Maribor (then Marburg) became the see of the Diocese of Lavant ...

. It is built in the centre of the village and was first mentioned in written documents dating to 1372. It is an originally

Gothic Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths **Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...

building with early and late 18th-century additions.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number 3340

Notable people

Zinka Zorko Zinka Zorko (February 24, 1936 – March 22, 2019) was a Slovenian linguist and academic. Her research focused on phonetic, theological, syntactic, and vocabulary phenomena of Carinthian, Styrian, and Pannonian dialect groups. In 2003, she was e ...

(1936–2019), linguist and academic

References

External links

Selnica ob Dravi Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Selnica ob Dravi {{SelnicaobDravi-geo-stub