Å entjur

Šentjur pri Celju ( German: Sankt Georgen in Celje ) is a municipality in the Spodnja Štajerska region in Slovenia.

In the group consisting of 108 villages and hamlets, 222.3 km ² large total municipality 18,960 people live. The main town Šentjur alone has 4723 inhabitants and is located on 262 m height. The community is located 11 km from Celje.

The town was first mentioned in writing in 1340. Starting from the Church of St. George, the village developed rapidly, rich but already the signs of human culture to the New Stone Age.

Personality

  • Benjamin Ipavec ( 1829 Šentjur - 1909), composer
  • Gustav Ipavec ( 1831 Šentjur - 1908), composer
  • Josip Ipavec ( 1873 Šentjur - 1921), composer,
  • Anton Martin Slomšek, (1800 in the district Ponikva - 1862), Bishop of Lavant,
  • Anna Wambrechtsamer, (1897 in the village of Planina pri Sevnici - 1933 in Graz), the Austrian- Slovenian writer
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