Lipsenj (, ) is a small

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 ...

between Žerovnica and

Gorenje Jezero Gorenje Jezero (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 130.) is a village on the southern edge of Lake Cerknica in the Municipality of Cerk ...

on the eastern edge of

Lake Cerknica Lake Cerknica (; ) is an intermittent lake in the southern part of the Cerknica Polje, a karst polje in Inner Carniola, a region in southwestern Slovenia. Description The lake, oriented in the Dinaric direction from north-west to south-east, ...

in the

Municipality of Cerknica The Municipality of Cerknica (; ) is a Municipalities of Slovenia, municipality in the Karst Plateau, Karst region of southwestern Slovenia, with a population of 11,350 in 2012. The seat of the municipality is the town of Cerknica. It belongs to t ...

in the

Inner Carniola Inner Carniola ( ; ) is a traditional region of Slovenia, the southwestern part of the larger Carniola region. It comprises the Hrušica (plateau), Hrušica karst plateau up to Postojna Gate, bordering the Slovenian Littoral (the Goriška, Gor ...

region of

Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ...

Geography

In addition to the main settlement, Lipsenj includes the hamlets of

Podšteberk Podšteberk (, in older sources ''Stegbrg'', ) is a former settlement in the Municipality of Cerknica in central Slovenia. It is now part of the village of Lipsenj. The area is part of the traditional region of Inner Carniola and is now included ...

(in older sources ''Štegbrg'', ) and Sveti Štefan ().

Name

Lipsenj was attested in written sources in 1425 as ''Lubssem'' (and as ''Lubsen'' in 1436 and 1497, ''Lubzin'' in 1444, ''Lupsen'' in 1581, and ''Lypse'' in 1589). The medieval transcriptions of the name indicate that it developed from ''*Ljupsenj''. This may have developed from the unattested

hypocorism A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek ; sometimes also ''hypocoristic''), or pet name, is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' fo ...

''*Ľubosenъ'', referring to some early inhabitant of the place.

Church

The church in Lipsenj, located in the former village of Sveti Štefan, is dedicated to

Saint Stephen Stephen (; ) is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first martyr of Christianity."St ...

. It is a

chapel of ease A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church architecture, church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently, generally due to trav ...

and belongs to the Parish of Grahovo. The church was mentioned in written sources in 1526 and it was remodeled in the Baroque style in the 18th century. The church has an attached bell tower, an octagonal nave topped by a cupola, a polygonal chancel walled on three sides, and a sacristy. The interior furnishings of the church are late Baroque. There is a small cemetery next to the church.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 1828

References

External links

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Lipsenj on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Cerknica {{Cerknica-geo-stub