Slovenj Gradec
Slovenj Gradec | |
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Coordinates: 46°30′33.69″N 15°4′44.97″E / 46.5093583°N 15.0791583°ECoordinates: 46°30′33.69″N 15°4′44.97″E / 46.5093583°N 15.0791583°E | |
Kintra | |
Tradeetional region | Styrie |
Statistical region | Carinthie |
Municipality | Slovenj Gradec |
Area | |
• Total | 5.6 km2 (2.2 sq mi) |
Elevation | 413 m (1,355 ft) |
Population (2012) | |
• Total | 7,557 |
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Slovenj Gradec (pronounced [slɔˈveːn ˈɡraːdəts]; [Windischgrätz, efter aboot 1900 Windischgraz] error: {{lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) is a toun in northren Slovenie. It is the centre of the Ceety Municipality o Slovenj Gradec. It is pairt o the historic Lawer Styrie region, an syne 2005 it haes belangit tae the NUTS-3 Carinthie Statistical Region. The toun is locatit aroond 45 km wast o Maribor an 65 km northeast o Ljubljana.
History
[eedit | eedit soorce]Historically, Slovenj Gradec wis pairt o the Duchy o Styrie athin the Austrian Empire till 1918, when, wi the rest o Lawer Styrie, it wis includit in the new Kinrick o the Serbs, Croats an Slovenes.
Atween the mid 19t century an 1945, the toun wis a German-speakin island in a Slovene-speakin aurie. In the 1880 census, toun o Slovenj Gradec, or Windischgrätz, as it wis cried, wis 75 percent German-speakin an 25 percent Slovene-speakin[2], but amang the German speakin population there wur allegedly those - like the faimily o the componer Hugo Wolf- o mixed ethnic oreegin.
Efter the end o Warld War I, mony o the local German speakin inhabitants muivit tae Austrick; those that remained wur gradually assimilatit tae or re-integratit intae the Slovene-speakin majority. Efter Warld War II, aw remainin ethnic Germans wur expelled frae Yugoslavie an Slovenj Gradec lost its tradeetional presence o German speakers.
Main sichts
[eedit | eedit soorce]The pairish kirk in the toun is dedicatit tae Saunt Elizabeth o Hungary an belangs tae the Roman Catholic Airchdiocese o Maribor. It is first mentioned in written documents datin tae 1235. Richt next tae it is a Gothic chapel dedicatit tae the Holy Spirit wi frescos datin tae the mid-15t century.[3]
In 2003, an aircheological excavation uncovered the remains o wha is believit tae be the auldest kirk in aw o Styrie, datin tae the Carolingian period.
Famous fowk
[eedit | eedit soorce]The German/Austrian noble faimily o the Princes o Windisch-Grätz, first mentioned in 1220, haed their oreeginal hame in a castle near the toun [4] an teuk their name frae the toun's German name.
In 1860, the componer Hugo Wolf wis born in the toun. The hoose in which he wis born is nou a muisic schuil. Slovenj Gradec is the birthplace o the alpine skiier Tina Maze, Slovenie naitional fitbaa team fitbawers Marko Šuler an Mirnes Šišić, an creetical theorist Renata Salecl.
Twin touns
[eedit | eedit soorce]References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Some o the information in this airticle is based on an translatit frae that foond in its German equivalent.
- ↑ Statistical Office o the Republic o Slovenie
- ↑ Meyers Konversationslexikon, 5th ed., Leipzig-Vienna 1897, vol. XVII, p. 794
- ↑ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference numbers ešd 658 & 659
- ↑ Der Große Brockhaus, Leipzig 1935, vol. XX, p.359
Freemit airtins
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Offeecial wabsteid Archived 2020-10-20 at the Wayback Machine (Slovenie)
- Toun Heraldry Archived 2014-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
- Slovenj Gradec municipality on Geopedia Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
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