Gornji Lenart (, formerly ''Zverinjak'', ) is a settlement in the

Municipality of Brežice The Municipality of Brežice (; ) is a municipality in eastern Slovenia in the Lower Sava Valley along the border with Croatia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Brežice. The area was traditionally divided between Lower Styria (territo ...

in eastern

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. The area is part of the traditional region of

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. It is now included in the

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.Brežice municipal site
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Name

The name ''Gornji Lenart'' literally means 'upper Leonard', a designation that distinguished it from Šentlenart (literally, 'Saint Leonard'), which was annexed by

Brežice Brežice (; ) is a town in eastern Slovenia in the Lower Sava Valley, near the Croatian border. It is the seat of the Municipality of Brežice. It lies in the center of the Brežice Plain (), which is part of the larger Krka Flat (). The area w ...

. Until 1927, the settlement was officially called ''Zverinjak'' (literally, 'menagerie'), in reference to the collection of wild animals kept there by the owners of

Brežice Castle Brežice Castle (, ) is a 16th-century castle in the town of Brežice, in southeastern Slovenia, at the street address ''Cesta prvih borcev 1''. As with the town, the castle's name derives from the diminutive plural of the Slovene word ''breg'', ...

. Locally, the settlement is also known as ''Tirget'' (< German ''Tiergarten'' 'zoo'), also a reference to the menagerie, or ''Čret'' (literally, 'marshland, morass'), referring to the local geography.Savnik, Roman, ed. 1976. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 3. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. p. 34.

History

During the Second World War, in the fall of 1941, the village population was evicted in order to make way for the resettlement of

Gottschee Germans Gottscheers (, , ) are the German settlers of the Kočevje region (a.k.a. Gottschee) of Slovenia, formerly Gottschee County. Until the Second World War, their main language of communication was Gottscheerish, a Bavarian dialect of German. Hi ...

References

External links

Gornji Lenart on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Brežice {{Brežice-geo-stub