Radegunda, Mozirje


Radegunda is a settlement in the Municipality of Mozirje in northern Slovenia. Traditionally the area was part of the Styria region. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region.

Name

The name of the settlement was changed from Sveta Radegunda to Radegunda in 1955. The name was changed on the basis of the 1948 Law on Names of Settlements and Designations of Squares, Streets, and Buildings as part of efforts by Slovenia's postwar communist government to remove religious elements from toponyms.

Church

The local church, from which the settlement gets its name, is dedicated to Saint Radegund and belongs to the Parish of Šmihel nad Mozirjem. It was first mentioned in written documents dating to 1241. Much of the current building dates to a 1903 major rebuilding of the church.