Brezje pri Dovškem
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Brezje pri Dovškem is a settlement in the hills to the north of Brestanica
in the Krško
municipality
in eastern Slovenia
. The area was traditionally part of Styria
. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Spodnjeposavska statistical region
.
The local church, built on a hill to the south of the main core of the settlement, is dedicated to Saint Paul. It belongs to the Senovo
parish
. It is a Baroque
church built in the late 17th century.
Brestanica
Brestanica is a small town in the Municipality of Krško in eastern Slovenia. Until 1953 the town was called Rajhenburg . It lies in the valley at the confluence of the Sava River with a minor tributary called the Brestanica. The area was traditionally part of Styria...
in the Krško
Krško
Krško is a town and municipality in eastern Slovenia. The town lies on the Sava River. The area is traditionally divided between Lower Styria and Lower Carniola...
municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in eastern Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
. The area was traditionally part of Styria
Lower Styria
Lower Styria or Slovenian Styria is a traditional region in northeastern Slovenia, comprising the southern third of the former Duchy of Styria. The population of Lower Styria in its historical boundaries amounts to around 705,000 inhabitants, or 34.5% of the population of Slovenia...
. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Spodnjeposavska statistical region
Spodnjeposavska statistical region
The Lower Sava statistical region is a statistical region in Slovenia. It is almost identical with the Posavje region. The largest town in the region is Krško. It is the second smallest region in Slovenia, but it has very good traffic connections...
.
The local church, built on a hill to the south of the main core of the settlement, is dedicated to Saint Paul. It belongs to the Senovo
Senovo
Senovo is a settlement in the Municipality of Krško in eastern Slovenia. It developed into a large settlement after its brown coal mine began to operate in 1839, but especially in the early 20th century.. The mine closed in the second half of the 1990s. The area was traditionally part of Styria...
parish
Parish
A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...
. It is a Baroque
Baroque architecture
Baroque architecture is a term used to describe the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late sixteenth century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and...
church built in the late 17th century.