Crenšovci
Encyclopedia
Črenšovci is a settlement and a municipality
in the Prekmurje
region in northeastern Slovenia
.
The Parish Church
in Črenšovci is dedicated to The Holy Cross
and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Murska Sobota. It was built in 1860 on the site of an earlier church originating from the early 14th century.
The priest and writer Jakab Szabár
and Vilmos Tkálecz
kantor-teacher and politician of Hungarian Slovenes
both lived in the village.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in the Prekmurje
Prekmurje
Prekmurje is a geographically, linguistically, culturally and ethnically defined region settled by Slovenes and lying between the Mur River in Slovenia and the Rába Valley in the most western part of Hungary...
region in northeastern Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
.
The Parish Church
Parish church
A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches....
in Črenšovci is dedicated to The Holy Cross
Feast of the Cross
In the Christian liturgical calendar, there are several different Feasts of the Cross, all of which commemorate the cross used in the crucifixion of Jesus....
and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Murska Sobota. It was built in 1860 on the site of an earlier church originating from the early 14th century.
The priest and writer Jakab Szabár
Jakab Szabár
Jakab Szabár was a writer and Roman Catholic priest. Szabár was a Hungarian Croat who wrote in Prekmurian and Hungarian....
and Vilmos Tkálecz
Vilmos Tkálecz
Vilmos Tkálecz was a Hungarian-Slovenian schoolmaster and politician, serving as governor of the Prekmurian Republic in 1919.Tkálecz was born on January 8, 1894 in Turnišče, Prekmurje, in the Kingdom of Hungary. István Tkálecz, his father was innkeeper, mother is German descent Mária Hochhoffer....
kantor-teacher and politician of Hungarian Slovenes
Hungarian Slovenes
Hungarian Slovenes are an autochthonous ethnic and linguistic Slovene minority living in Hungary. The largest groups are the Rába Slovenes in the Rába Valley in western Hungary between the town of Szentgotthárd and the borders with Slovenia and Austria. They speak the Prekmurje dialect of Slovene...
both lived in the village.