Official Name: | Klenik |
Pushpin Map: | Slovenia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Slovenia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Slovenia |
Subdivision Type1: | Traditional region |
Subdivision Name1: | Upper Carniola |
Subdivision Type2: | Statistical region |
Subdivision Name2: | Central Sava |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Litija |
Area Total Km2: | 1.16 |
Population As Of: | 2002 |
Population Total: | 65 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 46.1211°N 14.8472°W |
Elevation M: | 548.7 |
Postal Code: | 1252 |
Footnotes: | [1] |
Klenik (pronounced as /sl/) is a settlement east of Vače in the Municipality of Litija in central Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Upper Carniola. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Central Sava Statistical Region; until January 2014 the municipality was part of the Central Slovenia Statistical Region.[2]
North of Klenik and east of Slemšek Hill (680m (2,230feet)), near Vače, is the Hallstatt Archaeological Site in Vače, where the Vače situla, one of the most notable archaeological treasures of Slovenia, was discovered in the Ronkar Ravines (sl|Ronkarjeve drage, part of Klenik).
The local church, which stands on Slemšek Hill, is dedicated to the Holy Cross and belongs to the Parish of Vače. It was restored in the 1990s.[3] It was built in 1898 on the site of an earlier structure damaged in the 1895 earthquake. The furnishings date from 1906 and were created by the Ljubljana sculptor Andrej Rovšek Jr. (1864–1907).[4]
Notable people that were born or lived in Klenik include: