| Skorišnjak | |
|---|---|
  Skorišnjak Location in Slovenia | |
| Coordinates: 46°18′48.66″N15°57′17.07″E / 46.3135167°N 15.9547417°E Coordinates: 46°18′48.66″N15°57′17.07″E / 46.3135167°N 15.9547417°E | |
| Country |  |
| Traditional region | Styria |
| Statistical region | Drava |
| Municipality | Videm |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.3 km2 (0.5 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 313.7 m (1,029.2 ft) |
| Population (2002) | |
| • Total | 65 |
| [1] | |
Skorišnjak (pronounced [skɔɾiˈʃnjaːk] ) is a settlement in the Haloze Hills in eastern Slovenia, close to the border with Croatia. It belongs to the Municipality of Videm. The area traditionally belonged to the Styria region. It is now included in the Drava Statistical Region. [2]
Haloze is a geographical sub-region of Slovenia. It is in the northeast of the country, in the Styria region.
Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a sovereign state located in southern Central Europe at a crossroads of important European cultural and trade routes. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and the Adriatic Sea to the southwest. It covers 20,273 square kilometers (7,827 sq mi) and has a population of 2.07 million. One of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, Slovenia is a parliamentary republic and a member of the United Nations, of the European Union, and of NATO. The capital and largest city is Ljubljana.
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, on the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the southeast, sharing a maritime border with Italy. Its capital, Zagreb, forms one of the country's primary subdivisions, along with twenty counties. Croatia has an area of 56,594 square kilometres and a population of 4.28 million, most of whom are Roman Catholics.
There is a small rectangular chapel with a semicircular apse and a belfry in the settlement. It was built in the early 20th century. [3]
The term chapel usually refers to a Christian place of prayer and worship that is attached to a larger, often nonreligious institution or that is considered an extension of a primary religious institution. It may be part of a larger structure or complex, such as a college, hospital, palace, prison, funeral home, church, synagogue or mosque, located on board a military or commercial ship, or it may be an entirely free-standing building, sometimes with its own grounds. Chapel has also referred to independent or nonconformist places of worship in Great Britain—outside the established church.
In architecture, an apse is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an exedra. In Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic Christian church architecture, the term is applied to a semi-circular or polygonal termination of the main building at the liturgical east end, regardless of the shape of the roof, which may be flat, sloping, domed, or hemispherical. Smaller apses may also be in other locations, especially shrines.
A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell towers, often part of a municipal building, an educational establishment, or a tower built specifically to house a carillon. Church bell towers often incorporate clocks, and secular towers usually do, as a public service.
