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Lovrenc na Pohorju

Place in Styria, Slovenia

Lovrenc na Pohorju Sveti Lovrenc na Pohorju (until 1952)
Lovrenc na Pohorju
Coat of arms
46°32′17.17″N 15°23′3.71″E / 46.5381028°N 15.3843639°E / 46.5381028; 15.3843639
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Styria
Statistical region	Drava
Municipality	Lovrenc na Pohorju
	459
Population (2012)^[1]
• Total	1,992
Time zone	UTC+01 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02 (CEST)

Lovrenc na Pohorju (pronounced [ˈlɔ́ːwɾɛnts na ˈpóːxɔɾju]; German: Sankt Lorenzen an der Kärntnerbahn^[2]^[3] or Sankt Lorenzen ob Marburg^[2]^[4]) is a settlement in northeastern Slovenia. It lies in the Pohorje Hills to the west of Maribor. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included in the Drava Statistical Region.^[5] It is the seat of the Municipality of Lovrenc na Pohorju.

Name

The name of the settlement was changed from Sveti Lovrenc na Pohorju (literally, 'Saint Lawrence on Pohorje') to Lovrenc na Pohorju (literally, 'Lawrence on Pohorje') in 1952. 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.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Churches

The parish church from which the settlement gets its name is dedicated to Saint Lawrence and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor. It was first mentioned in written documents dating to the 12th century. It was rebuilt in 1407 and extensively remodeled in the 18th century.^[9] Two other churches in the settlement are dedicated to Saint Radegund and to the Holy Cross. Both date to the 17th century.^[10]

A community of Jehovah's Witnesses has also been living in Lovrenc na Pohorju since at least the 1970s and built a Kingdom Hall around 2000.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
^ ^a ^b Verovnik, Franc (November 2, 2017). "Podobe lovrenške šole in Lovrenca na starih razglednicah". Lovrenčan. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
^ Special Orts-Reperetorien der in österreichischen Reichsrathe vertretenen Königsreiche und Länder, vol. 4: Steiermark. Vienna: Alfred Hölder. 1883. p. 173.
^ Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 4: Štajersko. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna. 1904. p. 208.
^ Lovrenc na Pohorju municipal site
^ Spremembe naselij 1948–95. 1996. Database. Ljubljana: Geografski inštitut ZRC SAZU, DZS.
^ Premk, F. 2004. Slovenska versko-krščanska terminologija v zemljepisnih imenih in spremembe za čas 1921–1967/68. Besedoslovne lastnosti slovenskega jezika: slovenska zemljepisna imena. Ljubljana: Slavistično društvo Slovenije, pp. 113–132.
^ Urbanc, Mimi, & Matej Gabrovec. 2005. Krajevna imena: poligon za dokazovanje moči in odraz lokalne identitete. Geografski vestnik 77(2): 25–43.
^ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number ešd 3119
^ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number ešd 3121 & 3122