| Spodnji Leskovec | |
|---|---|
  Spodnji Leskovec Location in Slovenia | |
| Coordinates: 46°20′12.33″N15°56′25.69″E / 46.3367583°N 15.9404694°E Coordinates: 46°20′12.33″N15°56′25.69″E / 46.3367583°N 15.9404694°E | |
| Country |  |
| Traditional region | Styria |
| Statistical region | Drava |
| Municipality | Videm |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.86 km2 (0.72 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 219.9 m (721.5 ft) |
| Population (2002) | |
| • Total | 115 |
| [1] | |
Spodnji Leskovec (pronounced [ˈspoːdnji ˈleːskɔʋəts] ) is a settlement in the valley of Lipnica Creek, a minor tributary of the Drava River in the Haloze Hills in eastern Slovenia. It is part of the Municipality of Videm. The area traditionally belonged to the Styria region. It is now included in the Drava Statistical Region. [2]
The Drava or Drave is a river in southern Central Europe. With a length of 710 kilometres (440 mi), 724 kilometres (450 mi) including the Sextner Bach source, it is the fifth or sixth longest tributary of the Danube, after the Tisza, Sava, Prut, Mureș and perhaps Siret. Its source is near the market town of Innichen, in the Puster Valley of South Tyrol, Italy. The river flows eastwards through East Tirol and Carinthia in Austria into the Styria region of Slovenia. It then turns southeast, passing through Croatia and, after merging with its main tributary Mur, forms most of the border between Croatia and Hungary, before it joins the Danube near Osijek.
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.
There is a small rectangular chapel-shrine with a polygonal apse in the settlement. It was built in 1909. [3]
A wayside shrine is a religious image, usually in some sort of small shelter, placed by a road or pathway, sometimes in a settlement or at a crossroads, but often in the middle of an empty stretch of country road, or at the top of a hill or mountain. They have been a feature of many cultures, including Catholic and Orthodox Europe and Shinto Japan.
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.
