Lemerje
Encyclopedia
Lemerje is a village
in the Puconci
Municipality
in the Prekmurje
region of Slovenia
.
There are two chapels in the settlement. The Evangelical
chapel, built in the Neogothic
style in 1925 is on the north side of the main road. The Catholic chapel was built in 1928, also in the Neogothic style and is dedicated to The Holy Cross
.
The writer Mátyás Godina
was born in Lemerje.
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...
in the Puconci
Puconci
Puconci is a town and a municipality in Slovenia. Prior to 1920 it was known as Battyánd, Hungary.The majority of the population is Lutheran, making Puconci one of the few Slovenian municipalities where the majority of the population belongs to a non-Catholic denomination.There is a Lutheran...
Municipality
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 of 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...
.
There are two chapels in the settlement. The Evangelical
Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism is a Protestant Christian movement which began in Great Britain in the 1730s and gained popularity in the United States during the series of Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th century.Its key commitments are:...
chapel, built in the Neogothic
Gothic Revival architecture
The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...
style in 1925 is on the north side of the main road. The Catholic chapel was built in 1928, also in the Neogothic style and 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....
.
The writer Mátyás Godina
Mátyás Godina
Mátyás Godina Slovene Lutheran pastor, writer and teacher in Hungary.Born in Lemerje, his family was of minor nobility. He went to school in Surd in Somogy county, where he lived and worked with two Slovene littérateurs István Küzmics and Mihály Bakos...
was born in Lemerje.