Zavrh, Lenart
Zavrh (pronounced [ˈzaːʋəɾx], German: Sauerberg [ˈzaʊ̯ɐbɛɐ̯k]) is a settlement in the Municipality of Lenart in northeastern Slovenia. It lies in the Slovene Hills (Slovene: Slovenske gorice) above the valley of the Pesnica River The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included in the Drava Statistical Region.
In a house in the village where the Slovene general Rudolf Maister occasionally stayed a memorial room was set up in 1986. There is also a 17 m high observation tower known as Maister's Observation Tower (Slovene: Maistrov razgledni stolp) in the settlement. It is a metal structure erected in 1982 to replace an earlier wooden structure based on plans by Maister's son Borut from 1963.
References
- ^ Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia Archived November 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 4: Štajersko. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna. 1904. p. 212.
- ^ Lenart municipal site
- ^ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage Archived July 12, 2010, at the Wayback Machine reference number ešd 1099
External links
Media related to Zavrh, Lenart at Wikimedia Commons- Zavrh on Geopedia
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