Official Name: | Gorenja Vas pri Polici |
Other Name: | Gorenja Vas (until 1953) |
Pushpin Map: | Slovenia |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Slovenia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Slovenia |
Subdivision Type1: | Traditional region |
Subdivision Name1: | Lower Carniola |
Subdivision Type2: | Statistical region |
Subdivision Name2: | Central Slovenia |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Grosuplje |
Area Total Km2: | 1.76 |
Population As Of: | 2002 |
Population Total: | 56 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 45.999°N 14.6944°W |
Elevation M: | 502.4 |
Footnotes: | [1] |
Gorenja Vas pri Polici (in Slovenian pronounced as /ɡɔˈɾeːnja ˈʋaːs pɾi pɔˈliːtsi/; Slovenian: Gorenja vas pri Polici, German: Oberdorf[2]) is a small settlement in the hills north of Polica in the Municipality of Grosuplje in central Slovenia. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola. The municipality is now included in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region.[3]
The name of the settlement was changed from Gorenja vas to Gorenja vas pri Polici in 1953.[4] In the past the German name was Oberdorf.[2]
A small chapel-shrine in the village is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and was built in 1911.[5]