Zabrekve Explained

Official Name:Zabrekve
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:Upper Carniola
Subdivision Type3:Municipality
Subdivision Name3:Železniki
Population As Of:2002
Population Total:66
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Coordinates:46.2357°N 14.2367°W
Elevation M:822.2
Footnotes:[1]

Zabrekve (pronounced as /sl/) is a settlement in the Municipality of Železniki in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. It includes the hamlets of Sveti Mohor (Sankt Hermagor[2]) and Bezovnica.[3]

History

During the Second World War, the Partisans burned the hamlet of Bezovnica on 10 March 1945.[2] [4]

Church

The local church is dedicated to Saints Hermagoras and Fortunatus and was rebuilt in 1973. The original Baroque church was dynamited in the spring of 1944[2] [4] or in March 1945[5] and the surviving bell tower burned down in 1972 after being struck by lightning.[6]

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.stat.si/eng/index.asp Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. Book: Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko . 1906 . C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna . Vienna . 62.
  3. Book: Savnik . Roman . Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 1 . 1968 . Državna založba Slovenije . Ljubljana . 384.
  4. http://www.dlib.si/stream/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-EPRJZZDZ/12ff19ab-c274-4d44-82d0-b95f095a4213/PDF Planina, France. 1973. "Pokrajina in kraji Selške doline." Selška dolina v preteklosti in sedanjosti, pp. 9–48. Škofja Loka: Muzejsko društvo v Škofji Loki, pododbor Železniki, p. 27.
  5. http://zupnija-selca.rkc.si/mohor.html Podružnice - Sv. Mohor in Fortunat
  6. http://zupnije.rkc.si/selca/mohor.html Selca parish website