Jezero (; ) is a

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in the

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in central

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. It lies on the edge of the

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lands south of the capital

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. The municipality is part of the traditional region of

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and is now included in the

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. It includes the hamlets of Zaledine, Virje, and Zaobloka.

Geography

Jezero is a clustered village on a semicircular plain between Saint Anne's Church to the west and Saint Lawrence's Church to the northeast. South of the village in the Zajezero Plain there are low-lying wet meadows and deep Lake Podpeč ( or ''Jezero pri Podpeči''). The lake is fed by several springs in the nearby forest and contains trout, carp, and pike. The main tributary of the lake is Mill Creek (''Mlinski potok''), a constant surface watercourse. The lake drains through a siphon at the bottom, later emerging to the northwest as Hruški Creek (''Hruški potok''), a tributary of the

Ljubljanica River The Ljubljanica (), known in the Middle Ages as the ''Leybach'', is a river in the southern part of the Ljubljana Basin in Slovenia. The capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana, lies on the river. The Ljubljanica rises south of the town of Vrhnika and ...

.Občina Ljubljana Vič-Rudnik. Naravni spomenik Jezero pri Podpeči. Information sign posted at the lake. Swimming is permitted in the lake at one's own risk. Below Saint Lawrence's church are several sets of fields known by the microtoponyms Rušne, Deli, and Cervenke. A water main is connected to Jezero from the hamlet of Podkamnik in the neighboring village of Kamnik pod Krimom. There are several karst caves in the vicinity, including Frog Caves (''Krkonove jame''), Peršin Shaft (''Peršinovo brezno''), Little Woods Cave (''jama v Malih gozdih''), Lipovec Shaft (''brezno v Lipovcu''), and Big Peak Shaft (''brezno pod Velikim vrhom'').

Name

The name ''Jezero'' means 'lake' in Slovene. Jezero was attested in written sources as ''See'' in 1385 and ''Sëe'' in 1409.

Churches

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 ...

, built on a small hill north of the settlement, is dedicated to

Saint Lawrence Saint Lawrence or Laurence (; 31 December 225 – 10 August 258) was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the Persecution of Christians, persecution of the Christians that the Roman Empire, Rom ...

and originally dates to the 12th century, but was restyled in the 18th century. A second church, dedicated to

Saint Anne According to apocrypha, as well as Christianity, Christian and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary, mother of Jesus, Mary, the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the Bible's Gosp ...

, stands on a hill to the west of the settlement. It was also originally a

Gothic Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, a Germanic people **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths **Gothic alphabet, an alphabet used to write the Gothic language ** Gothic ( ...

building, but was rebuilt in the late 16th or early 17th century. Both belong to the

Parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...

of Preserje.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference numbers ešd 2178 & 2182

Gallery

File:Podpeč lake.jpg, Lake Podpeč

References

External links

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Jezero on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Brezovica {{Brezovica-geo-stub