Uniše (, ) is a settlement in the
Municipality of Šentjur
The Municipality of Šentjur (), named Municipality of Šentjur pri Celju () until 2002, is a municipality in eastern Slovenia. The town of Šentjur is the seat of the municipality. With an area of it is one of the larger municipalities in Slove ...
, eastern
Slovenia
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. The settlement, and the entire municipality, are included in the
Savinja Statistical Region
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, which is in the
Slovenian portion of the historical
Duchy of Styria
The Duchy of Styria (; ; ) was a duchy located in modern-day southern Austria and northern Slovenia. It was a part of the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806 and a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary until its dissolution i ...
.
Church
The local
church
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* Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...
is dedicated to
Saint Oswald () and belongs to the
Parish
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of
Ponikva. It was built between 1735 and 1736 on the site of a 16th-century building. It was remodelled in 1856.
Slomšek House
Bishop
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,
author
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and
poet
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, the
blessed Anton Martin Slomšek
Beatification, Blessed Anton Martin Slomšek (26 November 1800 – 24 September 1862) was a Slovene Catholic Church, Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Lavant from 1846 until his death. He served also as an author and poet as wel ...
, was born in the hamlet of Slom in the settlement in 1800. A memorial room is set up in the house where he was born.
Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 9094 A memorial plaque was installed in 1877 on the wall at the initiative of the priest Davorin Trstenjak
Davorin Trstenjak (8 November 1817 – 2 February 1890) was a Slovene writer, historian and Roman Catholic priest.
Life
Trstenjak was born in the village of Kraljevci near Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici, in what was then the Austrian Duchy of Styr ...
.
References
External links
*
Uniše on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Šentjur
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