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Holy Mother of God Pilgrimage Church The Holy Mother of God
Pilgrimage Church on the hill of Za-plaz at the village of Čatež is
a central pilgrimage point in the Diocese of Novo Mesto. Because of
its prominent posi-tion on top of the hill of Zaplaz, it is an
important gathering place for many pilgrims and hikers. Built
around 1926, it differs from other churches because of its two
Secession-style towers that rise majestically and are its most
recogniz-able parts.
There is a Grozde Chapel in the church, where relics of the
martyr Alojzij Grozde are kept and next to it a mosaic de-picting
the beatified Grozde, sitting triumphantly on a throne next to
Jesus in Heaven.
Close by the church is the Marijin studenec (St. Mary’s spring),
also called the “blessing” spring, attributed by many to have
healing powers, especially for eye disease. Bellow the hill of
Zaplaz lies the village of Čatež, the endpoint of the writer Fran
Levstik’s journey from Litija to Čatež.
River TemenicaThe river Temenica is next to the river
Ljubljanica one of the most typical disappearing rivers, which has
through the centuries created one of the longest karst valleys in
Slove-nia. It springs in the Posavje Hills at the village Javorje,
but because of the change of the bedrock the river has two more
springs before it joins the river Krka. The first time it
dis-appears gradually into a sinkhole at the village of Dolenje
Ponikve or, when water levels are high, into sinkholes under the
hill Sveta Ana (St. Anne). After a couple of kilometres of
underground current, the river springs from multiple sources under
a high rock over-hang called Zijalo, from where it flows through a
narrow valley to the village of Vrhovo, under which it disappears
again. For the final time it springs next to the cave Luknja near
the settlement of Prečna and after a few more kilometres joins the
river Krka.
The most distinctive and picturesque river valley in the
municipality is marked by a great biodiversity with still
functional floodplains, where high floodwaters spill on aver-age
twice a year.
Jurij Homestead The Jurij Homestead, a monument of local
importance, is located in the settlement of Občine at the edge of
the region of Dry Carniola. Due to cultural, ethnological,
regional, historic and other exceptional characteristics it has a
special meaning for sharing information about the life of country
folk in the time before, during and right after World War II.
The homestead is compact and is composed of a single-storey
farmhouse, an out-house, a wooden granary, a barn, a well, a
trellis and an orchard. In the past a stable and a hayrack were
also part of the homestead, but they were not preserved.
The residential building is composed of a single storey, part
stone and part wood, covered with a straw gable roof with endpoints
on both sides of the ridge. Inside there is a hall with a rural
“black” kitchen and a room for drying meats (Slove-nian colloquial
“šija”), a storage room (“špajza”), a bigger room (“hiša”), a
closet, a smaller room (“štiblc”) and the oldest part from 1508: a
cellar. In front of the house there is a wooden trellis and at the
back a wooden pigsty.
The barn is a single-storey, wooden building with a straw gable
roof. It was built after 1730, remade and expanded after 1848. A
hay cart stands under its jutting roof.Next to the barn there is an
orchard with old varieties of apple and pear trees, and on the
other side of the road a single-storey wooden granary with a straw
roof and a cellar. Next to it there is a stone well with a wooden
cover and a lever made from oak wood.
After visiting the homestead you will be touched by the spirit
of the past and the interconnection of memories and new
discoveries!
Visitors can view the inside of the Jurij Homestead by prior
arrangement with the homestead manager Alenka Lamovšek at tel. nr.:
00386 (0)41 890 909, or via e-mail: [email protected].
Central axis of the system of valleys of Dolenjska
Mosaic
Holy Mother of God Pilgrimage Church
Jurij Homestead house
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Gallery of Naïve Artists in Trebnje
Winter opening hours (from 1.10. to 30.4.): Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, 10.00-12.00, and 14.00-18.00; Saturday, Sunday,
14.00-18.00.
Summer opening hours (from 1.5. to 30.9.): Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, 10.00-12.00, and 14.00-19.00; Saturday, Sunday,
14.00-19.00.
Closed every Monday, on 1.1., Easter Sunday, 1.5., 1.11. and
25.12.
15th Meridian The 15th Meridian passes through the Municipality
of Trebnje; a half of an imaginary great circle that connects the
Earth’s poles and all the locations, where the sun rises, peaks and
sets at the same time, and determines the longitude 15° 00´
00´´.
On the lookout point on top of the hill of Vrhtrebnje a stone
plaque with a sun dial and a bronze relief of Slovenia was built,
where important cities, higher peaks and the course of the 15th
Meridian in Slovenia are shown. Also part of the marker is an
information board about the 15th Meridian.
The Meridian is also marked at the west entrance into Trebnje
with a large sign, showing the exact Central European time. The
clock is calibrated to only miss for a single second in a thousand
years.
Naïve art (also primitive art): Art, especially paintings, of
untrained naïve artists since the 19th cen-tury. Naïve art
developed as a reaction to the art of academically educated
authors, and started to strengthen in the 20th century. It is
developing independently from the styles and directions of
his-toric art, while simplified drawings, local colouring, and a
two-dimensional way of depicting are char-acteristic.(From:
Slovenika, slovenska nacionalna enciklopedija, 2011, pg. 865)
In the late sixties a camp of naïve artists was founded in
Trebnje, where since 1968, artists from all over the world gathered
every year. For the duration of the camp the artists stayed in
Trebnje free of charge and donated in exchange the works created to
the town of Trebnje and since 1971 to the Gallery of Naïve
Artists.
This formed a collection of over 1000 artistic works: paintings,
reliefs, and sculptures created by 270 artists from 40 countries.
Included are works from artists, whose art pieces are displayed in
renowned museums and galleries across the world.
Today the Gallery of Naïve Artists in Trebnje is known as the
only collection of naïve art in Slovenia and as one of the more
important collections of the kind in the world.
The Gallery of Naïve Artists houses a permanent exhi-bition,
works from visiting European galleries and pe-riodically holds
independent temporary exhibitions of renowned artists.
Permanent exhibition
Igor Dolenc, Žrnovec, 2011,
oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm, Inv.
No. GT1048
Zuzana Veresky, Three brides on bicycles, 2011, acrylic on
canvas, 45 x 65 cm, Inv. No. GT1044
Contact:Tel. nr.: 00386 (0)7 348 21 06E-mail:
[email protected]
Information board and a sun dial Sign with a radio-controlled
clock
Stone marker at Vrhtrebnje
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Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary
Fish pond Blato
Trebnje Castle
The church dedicated to the Assump-tion of Mary is situated in
the centre of Trebnje and has a copper bell tower, which can be
recognised from afar due to its green colour. The current Late
Gothic church with three naves and six octagonal pillars from 1443
is built on the site of an older church. It is deco-rated with a
late Baroque presbytery with a fresco of the Assumption of Mary by
the Slovenian painter Matevž Langus and built into the hall is a
Roman relief of three busts.
In 2012, for the 5th anniversary of the death of the honorary
citizen of the Municipality of Trebnje, the Archbishop and
Metropolitan of Ljubjana, Dr Alojzij Šuštar, a monument to Dr
Alojzij Šuštar was revealed on the south side of the Assumption of
Mary Church. He was born in 1920 in the village of Grmada at
Trebnje and worked all his life for the improvement of relations
between the church and state. With his international reputation he
contributed greatly to the acknowledgement of the independence of
the Republic of Slovenia.
The Trebnje Castle, which is first mentioned in written sources
in 1386 and can be traced back to the year 1000, is located on the
right bank of the river Temenica, on a hill under the
Ljubjana-Zagreb highway. The original owners were the lords of
Trebnje from Carinthia, while it was later run by the Ortenbuger,
the Counts of Celje, the Hapsburgs and others, and was from 1812 to
1824 owned even by the local mis-sionary Frederic Irenaeus
Baraga.
The castle retained many ancient sections – a square tower with
Roman founda-tions, a round tower from the time of the Ottoman Wars
– and was completed to the way it is today in the 16th century. A
stone lion from Roman times reigns on top of the castle stairs. The
lion is also depicted in the coat of arms of the Municipality of
Trebnje.
The fish pond Blato was created after the rehabilita-tion of a
failed factory of ceramic tiles in the village of Račje selo. A
large number of fish live in the pond and next to it a restored
double hayrack from 1902 named Florijan houses an ethnological
collection.
On the other side of the clay area is the boggy terrain of the
Vejar Valley, where you sway like in a cradle, and the peat is so
deep that by oral tradition the Ot-toman invaders sunk into the
swamp here; proved by smaller than ordinary horseshoes found on the
grassland. One of them is attached to a beam on the double hayrack
Florijan.
Monument to Dr Alojzij Šuštar
Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary
Trebnje Castle
Double hayrack Florijan
Fish pond Blato
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Memorial park for the Slovenian Independence War At Medvedjek, a
site of the Slovenian Independence War, which took place in 1991,
an interesting memorial park was created, formed by a concrete tank
barrier with a memorial plaque and a BOV 3 tank – literally “Combat
Armored Vehicle”. The BOV 3 was a part of an armed conflict at
Medvedjek and in the Krakovo forest. The memorial park was built
for the 20th anniversary of the conflicts in the memory and
reminder of the Independence War and the events that happened in
the area.
Baraga Homestead The Baraga Homestead in the village of Mala vas
is the birthplace of the Slovenian missionary Frederic Irenaeus
Baraga. Two rooms in the house are set up as memo-rial rooms, one
room is decorated with the furniture of the time and the rest with
a museum presentation of objects and marked stations of Baraga’s
life in Canada and the USA. There he wrote books for North American
natives, taught them how to read and write, diverted them from
alcohol and enabled for them to learn crafts. While staying in La
Pointe, Wisconsin, he wrote in German the book History, Chara-cter,
Customs and Habits of North American Indians, through which
Europeans first learned about the story of the Indian princess
Pocahontas. The work is the first book by a Slovenian author
describing foreign people.
Memorial Room of the 1st Congress of the Slovenian Anti-Fascist
Women’s Association The cultural centre in the village of Dobrnič
houses the Memorial Room of the
founding 1st Congress of the Slovenian Anti-Fascist Women’s
Association, which through photographs brings visitors closer to
the image of the difficult times. The congress, unique in Europe of
the time, took place here. It was in session in the cul-tural
centre in Dobrnič from Saturday, 16.10., to Monday, 18.10.1943, in
the middle of the maelstrom of war. Women, elected from all parts
of Slovenia and all military units, in which they operated,
attended.
Growing Books Beside natural and cultural sights, the cultural
roots of the area are rich as well, as many people in the past
created and hardened on the stage of the diverse Mu-nicipality of
Trebnje. Every man or woman of importance that came from or left
their mark on the municipality is included in The Growing Book of
the Temenica and Mirna Valleys (Rastoča knjiga Temeniške in Mirnske
doline), the first permanent exhibition of its kind in Slovenia,
which is housed in the lobby of the Centre for Education and
Culture (CIK) in Trebnje, or in the book of Veliki Gaber and its
sur-roundings (Rastoča knjiga Veliki Gaber z okolico), which is
housed in the Ivan Zorec Library in the village of Veliki
Gaber.
A visit to the records will enrich you, because they convey
inspiration, strength, creativity and energy for spiritual growth
and development.
Baraga Homestead
Permanent exhibition at the Memorial Room
BOV 3
