Velika Štanga

Velika Štanga
Velika Štanga Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°2′53.74″N 14°45′45.47″E / 46.0482611°N 14.7626306°ECoordinates: 46°2′53.74″N 14°45′45.47″E / 46.0482611°N 14.7626306°E
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Lower Carniola
Statistical region	Central Slovenia
Municipality	Šmartno pri Litiji
Area
• Total	2.87 km^2 (1.11 sq mi)
Elevation	515.8 m (1,692.3 ft)
Population (2002)
• Total	94
[1]

Velika Štanga (pronounced [ˈʋeːlika ˈʃtaːŋɡa]; in older sources also Sveti Anton,^[2] German: St. Anton;^[2] also German: Stangenwald,^[3] Stangen^[4]) is a settlement in the hills west of Šmartno pri Litiji in central Slovenia. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola. The Municipality of Šmartno pri Litiji is now included in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region.^[5]

Church

Saint Anthony of Padua Church

The Štanga parish church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ljubljana. It dates to 1677 with some major remodelling and rebuilding carried out in 1894.^[6][7]

References

1. Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
2. Intelligenzblatt zur Laibacher Zeitung, no. 141. 24 November 1849, p. 33.
3. Klun, V. F. 1852. Archiv für die Landesgeschichte des Herzogthums Krain. Vol. 1. Ljubljana: Kleinmayr & Bamberg, p. 116
4. Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 96.
5. Šmartno pri Litiji municipal site
6. "EŠD 2565". Registry of Immovable Cultural Heritage (in Slovenian). Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
7. Plaque above the church entrance: "Erecta 1677 Renovata 1894."

External links

• Velika Štanga at Geopedia
• Media related to Velika Štanga at Wikimedia Commons