Architecture sights

The church of St. Lovrenc

This is the church to which the settlement owes its name. It is first mentioned in 1184, but almost nothing is known about the first building. There are much more information about its Gothic follower from the first quarter of 15th century. From that period, the lower part of the west and south nave is still preserved as well as the rib, built into the wall of the presbytery. In the first part of 16th century, as an extension the church tower was built.

Some parts of the church were destroyed in a fire in 1662, and it was repaved in 1691. From the church chronicle it may be concluded that when they bought a new bell in 1727, they probably also heightened the tower and made a new facade. The present mostly baroque church was built between the years 1765 and 1766 by a civil master Janez Jurij Stadler.

The exterior of the church was again renewed between the years 1870 and 1907, and the church wall, which surrounded the church until 1868, was removed. The interior, which was repainted with new pictures in 1892, is enriched in a Baroque style, and is the work of a well known Maribor sculptor Joseph Holzinger (1735-2797).

The interior was renewed again between 1988 and 1991, and the exterior in 1998.

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The statue of St. Nicholas

Lies by the main road through the town. St. Nicholas is the patron of all raftsmen, who used to have a domicile in Lovrenc na Pohorju. The raftsmen from the Drava river used to bring gifts to the statue to thank for the happy return from their journey down the river. The baroque statue is made of stone and dates back to 1754. It is a work of a sculptor Jožef Straub.

The church of St. Mary the Virgin in Puščava

This pilgrimage church means an artistic peak for the Podravje art in 17th century and is one of the most important monuments of the late Renaissance or early Baroque architecture in Slovenia. The abbot of the Benedict monastery ordered to build the Holly Trinity and Mary the Virgin church in 1627, but as it grew into a popular pilgrimage destiny it was rebuilt in 1672 according to the order of the next abbot. Only the church tower was preserved.

The interior of the church consists of three naves and the eastern part with a semicircular chapel and semicircular presbytery. The prevailing image is gained by a very plastic architecture and qualitative church furnishings. Numerous sculptures enrich the three-flat main altar as well as both altars in the chapels. Both altars have also four big statues, which is unique in the Slovene architecture.

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Pajštva (a drying house)

Between the cemetery and the church of St. Lovrenc there lies an old Pohorje drying house, which was used in the past for drying fruit and flax. The building is partly made of wood and partly of concrete. The fruit was dried inside on special shelves, but the fire was made outside. It belongs to ethnologic monuments. Pajštva was renewed in 1998 and one can still dry fruit and flax there today.

Ladejenkovo - the oldest house in Lovrenc

Puša, which is one of the oldest settlements in Lovrenc, lies northwest of the main road. Today there is still a typical Pohorje farm called Ladejenkovo. The wooden building, which is supposed to be built in 15th century, is built of beam, the windows are squared and protected with Baroque looking forged nets. The roof is very steep, covered with timber in old Slovenian fashion. A smokehouse was also here until World War 1, after that the walls were whitewashed. The floor is still wooden.

A farm building is typical again: the lower part is made of stone, the upper of wood and along the whole length there is a typical balcony called "gank". Nearby, there is also a double drying rack, one of the few in Lovrenc.