Sveti Lovrenc () is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the Municipality of Prebold in east-central

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. 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 ''Sveti Lovrenc pri Preboldu'' (literally, 'Saint Lawrence near Prebold') to ''Gorenja Vas pri Preboldu'' (literally, 'upper village near Prebold') 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. The name ''Sveti Lovrenc'' was restored in 1991.

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 village gets its name, 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 belongs to the

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of Prebold. It was first mentioned in written documents dating to 1247. It was restyled in the 19th century, but the

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

is still the original Romanesque structure. Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 3220

References

External links

Sveti Lovrenc on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Prebold {{Prebold-geo-stub