Lemberg Pri Šmarju
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Lemberg pri Šmarju () is a settlement in the
Municipality of Šmarje pri Jelšah The Municipality of Šmarje pri Jelšah (; ) is a municipality in the traditional region of Lower Styria, Styria in northeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Šmarje pri Jelšah. Šmarje pri Jelšah became a municipality ...
in eastern
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. It lies in the hills northeast of Šmarje. The area is part of the traditional region of
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. The municipality is now included in the
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.


Name

The name of the settlement was changed from ''Lemberg'' to ''Lemberg pri Šmarju'' in 1953, distinguishing it from other places named Lemberg.


Cultural heritage

Lemberg was the site of a medieval
castle A castle is a type of fortification, fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by Military order (monastic society), military orders. Scholars usually consider a ''castle'' to be the private ...
. Very few ruins of the castle remain visible today. It was first mentioned in written documents dating to 1224. It was owned by the Lords of Sannegg and was abandoned in the 15th century. What does remain is the castle
chapel A chapel (from , a diminutive of ''cappa'', meaning "little cape") is a Christianity, Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several meanings. First, smaller spaces inside a church that have their o ...
, now the
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 ...
dedicated to Saint Pancras. It was extended and rebuilt in the 16th and 18th centuries. A second church in the settlement is dedicated to
Saint Nicholas Saint Nicholas of Myra (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greeks, Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara (Lycia), Patara in Anatolia (in modern-day Antalya ...
. It was a 15th-century building restyled in the
Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...
in the 18th century. Both churches 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 Sladka Gora.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 3365


References


External links

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Lemberg pri Šmarju on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Šmarje pri Jelšah {{ŠmarjepriJelšah-geo-stub