Lemberg pri Å marju
Lemberg pri Šmarju ( German Lemberg at St.Marein, older even Lengenbach Castle ) is a town in the municipality Šmarje pri Jelšah ( St.Marein at Erlach stone) and is located in the historical region of Lower Styria ( Lower Styria ) in Slovenia.
Location
The place is away from Šmarje about 5 km, about 23 km from Celje, Maribor 34 km away and is from the Lviv Bach ( Lemberžica ) flows through. Today insignificant village settlement (237 m) is located in a hilly area on the southern branch of the Gabrnik ( Gaberniggberg, 481 m). About the Pečica saddle (371 m), the road runs north to the Valley of the dravinjska ( drann ). The whole area is dominated by the highly visible mountain peaks of Boč ( Wotsch ) (979 m).
History
In 1251 Lviv was first mentioned in documents as Lengenbach castle. In the High Middle Ages, the town gets awarded market rights, and until the early 19th century, a regional trade center, which lay with its inns and crafts at a busy traffic route. Gora With the laying of the thoroughfare to the eastern neighboring valley and the transfer of the parish in 3 km from the pilgrimage site of Sladka ( Süßenberg ) slowly began the decline of the market town, which today is one of only around 140 inhabitants.
Castle Lviv
The former castle " castrum Lengenbach Burch " to have been built near the present Pancras church on the mountain plateau of the outdoors by Sanneck in the second half of the 12th century. The Sann -nuts who called themselves as " of Lengenbach castle ", remained the stronghold as a residential and administrative center of an extensive manorial system with district court to 1341st This year, Frederick was charged by Sanneck by Emperor Ludwig in the Imperial Count. After the extinction of the Sanneck - Cilliers 1456 Lviv fell by the Styrian prince.
From the 1487 report of the companion of a bishop's tour group, Paolo Santo Nino, that the castle was destroyed because of the slump in Hungary imperial decree out. At that time were armed conflicts between the Emperor Frederick III. and King Matthias Corvinus instead.
The management of Lviv was then apparently already made by the adjacent rule Plankenstein ( Zbelovski grad). The established in 1498 Urbar speaks for it. The rule of Lviv at that stage included 91 villages / hamlets in whole or in part, and had about the same extent as the district court or the county.
Attractions
In its center stands the church of St. Nicholas. The sacred building dates from the first half of the 15th century and was renovated in 2002. The old Town Hall from 1769 and the stone Pillory preserved remember times when here two major fairs were held and every Thursday was market day.
Above the village is the church of St. Pancras, near the former Burglengenfeld castle.