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Gornji Ig (; in older sources also ''Gorenji Ig'',''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 108. ) is a
village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
in the hills southwest of
Iška Vas Iška Vas (; , ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 108.) is a village on the right bank of the Iška River in the Municipality of Ig in ...
in the
Municipality of Ig The Municipality of Ig (; ) is a municipality in central Slovenia. Its seat is the settlement of Ig. It was formed in 1995 from parts of the Municipality of Vič–Rudnik, until then one of the five municipalities that formed the Civic Assembly ...
in central
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. The entire municipality is part of the traditional region of
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and is now included in the
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.


Name

The name ''Gornji Ig'' literally means 'upper Ig', referring to its location above the Ig area. Gornji Ig was attested in historical sources as ''Ober Yg'' in 1300, ''Ober Ig'' in 1444, and ''Oberygdorff'' in 1493, among other spellings.


Church

The local
church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...
, built on a slight elevation north of the settlement, is dedicated to
Saint Leonard Leonard of Noblac (also Leonard of Limoges or Leonard of Noblet; also known as Lienard, Linhart, Lenart, Leonhard, Léonard, Leonardo, Annard; died 559) is a Frankish saint closely associated with the town and abbey of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, ...
and belongs to the
Parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...
of Ig. It was a medieval church that was destroyed by Italian artillery on July 16, 1942.Cerkev svetega Lenarta na Gornjem Igu
The postwar communist authorities prevented it from being rebuilt and it was left in ruins. It was completely reconstructed in its original form and dimensions between 1997 and 1998, in time for the 500th anniversary of its first mention in a written source. The door casing bears the inscription "1498 IHS 1998."


Mass grave

Gornji Ig is the site of a
mass grave A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may Unidentified decedent, not be identified prior to burial. The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of exec ...
from the period immediately after the Second World War. The Kosec Shaft Mass Grave () is located on the southern slope of Mount Krim, about southwest of Gornji Ig, on the left side of the gravel road to Rakitna. It contains the remains of wounded
Home Guard Home guard is a title given to various military organizations at various times, with the implication of an emergency or reserve force raised for local defense. The term "home guard" was first officially used in the American Civil War, starting ...
soldiers that were murdered in June 1945, as well as 15 to 20 additional civilian victims that had been hiding in Rakitna and were murdered in October 1945.


References


External links

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Gornji Ig on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Ig {{Ig-geo-stub