Mokronog (; german: Nassenfuß
[''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 82–83.]) is a settlement in the
Municipality of Mokronog-Trebelno in southeastern
Slovenia. It is also the administrative centre of the municipality. The area is part of the historical region of
Lower Carniola. The municipality is now included in the
Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.
Name
Mokronog was first attested in written sources in 1137 under the German name ''Nazuŏz'' (and as ''Nazzenfuz'' in 1143 and ''Nazzenvozzen'' in 1158). The Slovene name ''Mokronag'' was not attested until 1689.
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[Snoj, Marko. 2009. ''Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen''. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 268.] The name was originally a genitive plural (nominative ''*Mokronozi'', accusative ''*Mokronoge''; cf. the related place names
Mokronoge and
Mokronoge, both in
Bosnia-Herzegovina
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) that was reinterpreted as a singular. It is believed to be a compound of the adjective ''moker'' 'wet' + the noun ''noga'' 'foot of a hill/mountain', thus originally meaning 'wet area at the foot of a mountain'.
The hypothesis that the name means 'wet foot' as a humorous reference to people living in a wet place is less likely.
Also less likely is the hypothesis that it is derived from ''*Makromьnovo'' (< ''*ma-'' 'somehow' + ''*kromьnъ'' 'hidden').
In the past the German name was ''Nassenfuß''.
Churches
The
parish church in the settlement is dedicated to
Saint Giles
Saint Giles (, la, Aegidius, french: Gilles), also known as Giles the Hermit, was a hermit or monk active in the lower Rhône most likely in the 6th century. Revered as a saint, his cult became widely diffused but his hagiography is mostly lege ...
( sl, sveti Egidij) and belongs to the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Novo Mesto
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Novo Mesto ( la, Dioecesis Novae Urbis; sl, Škofija Novo mesto) is a diocese in the city of Novo Mesto in the Ecclesiastical province of Ljubljana in Slovenia.
History
* April 7, 2006: Established as Diocese of ...
. It was built in the style of the late-
Baroque
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Neoclassicism
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from 1822 to 1824 on the site of an older church that collapsed. The church tower was redesigned in 1940 based on plans by the architect Janez Valentinčič, a student of
Jože Plečnik. A second church in the northern part of the settlement (Šeginke) is dedicated to
Saint Florian. It dates to the mid-17th century. A third church stands to the west on Mount Sorrow ( sl, Žalostna gora, german: Trauerberg, 366 m).
It is dedicated to
Our Lady of Sorrows and dates from 1697, with 18th- and 19th-century painting.
History
Mokronog was first mentioned in 1137, and acquired
market rights in 1279. Around 1340, a wall was built around the town, of which only a tower now remains. The town suffered severely from
Ottoman raids in the 16th and 17th century and it lost most of its population. It regained some of its former importance only in early 19th century, when it became a center of the leather industry. The leather factory was completely destroyed in 1943 by a Nazi air strike.
A 13th-century castle with 15th-, 17th-, and 18th-century additions, built on a hill south of the parish church, was burned down by the
Yugoslav Partisans after the capitulation of Italy in 1943 and further demolished after the
Second World War.
References
External links
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Mokronog on Geopedia
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Populated places in the Municipality of Mokronog-Trebelno