Straža pri Krškem


Straža pri Krškem is a small village in the hills above the left bank of the Sava River northwest of the town of Krško in eastern Slovenia. The area was traditionally part of Lower Carniola. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Lower Sava Statistical Region.

Name

The name of the settlement was changed from Straža Svetega Lovrenca to Straža pri Krškem 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. In the past the German name was Straža bei Sankt Lorenz.

History

During the Second World War, the Slovene population of the village was evicted and Gottschee Germans were settled in their place. The village was joined together with neighboring Dunaj, and the two villages were jointly renamed Lorenzberg.