Velika Štanga Explained

Official Name:Velika Štanga
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:Lower Carniola
Subdivision Type2:Statistical region
Subdivision Name2:Central Slovenia
Subdivision Type3:Municipality
Subdivision Name3:Šmartno pri Litiji
Area Total Km2:2.87
Population As Of:2002
Population Total:94
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Coordinates:46.0483°N 14.7626°W
Elevation M:515.8
Footnotes:[1]

Velika Štanga (in Slovenian pronounced as /ˈʋeːlika ˈʃtaːŋɡa/; in older sources also Sveti Anton,[2] German: St. Anton;[2] also German: Stangenwald,[3] Stangen[4]) is a settlement in the hills west of Šmartno pri Litiji in central Slovenia. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola. The Municipality of Šmartno pri Litiji is now included in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region.[5]

Church

The Štanga parish church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ljubljana. It dates to 1677 with some major remodelling and rebuilding carried out in 1894.[6] [7]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.stat.si/eng/index.asp Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. Intelligenzblatt zur Laibacher Zeitung, no. 141. 24 November 1849, p. 33.
  3. Klun, V. F. 1852. Archiv für die Landesgeschichte des Herzogthums Krain. Vol. 1. Ljubljana: Kleinmayr & Bamberg, p. 116
  4. Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 96.
  5. http://www.smartno-litija.si Šmartno pri Litiji municipal site
  6. Web site: EŠD 2565 . sl . Registry of Immovable Cultural Heritage . Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia . 7 September 2011.
  7. Plaque above the church entrance: "Erecta 1677 Renovata 1894."