Zlateče Pri Šentjurju
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Zlateče pri Šentjurju ( or ) 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
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. The settlement, and the entire municipality, are included in the
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, which is in the Slovenian portion of the historical
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.


Name

The name of the settlement was changed from ''Sveta Rozalija'' (literally, 'Saint Rosalia') to ''Zlateče pri Šentjurju'' in 1953. 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 ...
, built on a hill east of the settlement, is dedicated to
Saint Rosalia Rosalia (; ; 1130–1166), nicknamed ("the Little Saint"), is the patron saint of Palermo in Italy, Camargo in Chihuahua, and three towns in Venezuela: El Hatillo, , and El Playón. She is especially important internationally as a saint in ...
and belongs 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 Šentjur. It dates to the 17th century, with a chapel dedicated to Saint Anthony added to the southern nave in 1746. The church was built as a votive offering in the aftermath of the plague of 1645–1660; it is distinguished by its high-quality architecture and stonework. The main altar dates from 1667, and the three altars in the nave from 1859. The
chancel In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the Choir (architecture), choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may termi ...
was painted in 1908 by the Celje painter Albin Paradiž (1879–1910). The glass chandelier dates to 1850. The largest of the church's bells was cast in Celje in 1756 by Gašper Schneider (1726–1774); its tone was considered so strikingly gentle that the composer Gustav Ipavec composed the song "Iz stolpa se mi zvon doni" (From the Tower the Bell Tolls to Me) in its honor. Saint Anthony's chapel contains frescoes by the
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painter Franc Jelovšek (1700–1764), an altar dating from 1864 to 1866 by the
Celje Celje (, , ) is the List of cities and towns in Slovenia, third-largest city in Slovenia. It is a regional center of the traditional Slovenian region of Styria (Slovenia), Styria and the administrative seat of the City Municipality of Celje. Th ...
wood-carver Ignacij Oblak (1834–1916), and a pulpit from 1870.Savnik, Roman, ed. 1976. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 3. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, p. 349.


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External links


Zlateče pri Šentjurju on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Šentjur {{ŠentjurpriCelju-geo-stub