Podbočje (;
[''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 70.]) 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 ...
on the right bank of the
Krka River in the foothills of the
Gorjanci range in the
Municipality of Krško in eastern
Slovenia
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. The area is part of the traditional region of
Lower Carniola
Lower Carniola ( ; ) is a traditional region in 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 an ...
. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the
Lower Sava Statistical Region.
Name
The name of the settlement was changed from ''Sveti Križ pri Kostanjevici'' (literally, 'Holy Cross near Kostanjevica') to ''Podbočje'' (literally, 'below the slope') in 1952. The name was changed on the basis of the 1948 Law on Names of Settlements and Designations of Squares, Streets, and Buildings as part of efforts by Slovenia's postwar communist government to remove religious elements from toponyms. In the past the German name was ''Heiligenkreuz''.
Church
The
parish church
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in the village is dedicated to the
Holy Cross and belongs to the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Novo Mesto
The Diocese of Novo Mesto (; ) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the city of Novo Mesto in the ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ljubljana, Ljubljana in Slovenia.
History
* April 7, 2006: Established as ...
. It is a
Neo-Gothic
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century ...
church built in 1907.
Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 2399.
References
External links
Podbočje on Geopedia
Populated places in the Urban Municipality of Krško
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