Šmatevž () is a small village in the
Municipality of Braslovče in
Slovenia
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. The area is part of the traditional region of
Lower Styria
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. The municipality is now included in the
Savinja Statistical Region
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.
Name
The name of the settlement was changed from ''Sveti Matevž'' (literally, 'Saint Matthew') to ''Šmatevž'' in 1955. The name was changed on the basis of the 1948 Law on Names of Settlements and Designations of Squares, Streets, and Buildings as part of efforts by Slovenia's postwar communist government to remove religious elements from toponyms.
Church
The local
church
Church may refer to:
Religion
* Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...
, from which the settlement gets its name, is dedicated to
Saint Matthew
Matthew the Apostle was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. According to Christian traditions, he was also one of the four Evangelists as author of the Gospel of Matthew, and thus is also known as Matthew the Evangelist.
The claim of his g ...
and belongs to the
Parish
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of
Gomilsko. It was originally a
Gothic building. The
belfry
The belfry /ˈbɛlfri/ is a structure enclosing bells for ringing as part of a building, usually as part of a bell tower or steeple. It can also refer to the entire tower or building, particularly in continental Europe for such a tower attached ...
dates to the 16th century. It was extended and restyled in the 17th and 19th centuries.
Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 2984
References
External links
Šmatevž on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Braslovče
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