Gornji Lenart (, formerly ''Zverinjak'',
) is a settlement in the
Municipality of Brežice
The Municipality of Brežice (; ) is a municipality in eastern Slovenia in the Lower Sava Valley along the border with Croatia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Brežice. The area was traditionally divided between Lower Styria (territo ...
in eastern
Slovenia
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. The area is part of the traditional region of
Styria
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. It is now included in the
Lower Sava Statistical Region
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.
Brežice municipal site
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Name
The name ''Gornji Lenart'' literally means 'upper Leonard', a designation that distinguished it from Šentlenart (literally, 'Saint Leonard'), which was annexed by Brežice
Brežice (; ) is a town in eastern Slovenia in the Lower Sava Valley, near the Croatian border. It is the seat of the Municipality of Brežice. It lies in the center of the Brežice Plain (), which is part of the larger Krka Flat (). The area w ...
. Until 1927, the settlement was officially called ''Zverinjak'' (literally, 'menagerie'), in reference to the collection of wild animals kept there by the owners of Brežice Castle. Locally, the settlement is also known as ''Tirget'' (< German ''Tiergarten'' 'zoo'), also a reference to the menagerie, or ''Čret'' (literally, 'marshland, morass'), referring to the local geography.[Savnik, Roman, ed. 1976. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 3. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. p. 34.]
History
During the Second World War, in the fall of 1941, the village population was evicted in order to make way for the resettlement of Gottschee Germans.
References
External links
Gornji Lenart on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Brežice
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