Sveti Lenart (; Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 62.) is a village in the Municipality of Škofja Loka in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.
Name The name of the settlement was changed from Sveti Lenart (literally, 'Saint Leonard') to Lenart nad Lušo (literally, 'Leonard above Luša') in 1955.Razširjeni seznam sprememb naselij od 1948 do 1964: preimenovanja, združevanja, odcepitve, pristavki, razglasitve in ukinitve. 1965. Ljubljana: Zavod SR Slovenije za statistiko, p. 54. 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.Premk, F. 2004. Slovenska versko-krščanska terminologija v zemljepisnih imenih in spremembe za čas 1921–1967/68. Besedoslovne lastnosti slovenskega jezika: slovenska zemljepisna imena. Ljubljana: Slavistično društvo Slovenije, pp. 113–132.Urbanc, Mimi, & Matej Gabrovec. 2005. Krajevna imena: poligon za dokazovanje moči in odraz lokalne identitete. Geografski vestnik 77(2): 25–43. In the past the German name was Sankt Leonhard. The name Sveti Lenart was restored in a two-step process: in 1998 the hamlet of Sveti Lenart was separated from neighboring Golica and made an independent settlement, and then in 2003 the adjacent settlement of Lenart nad Lušo was annexed by Sveti Lenart.Spremembe naselij 1948–95. 1996. Database. Ljubljana: Geografski inštitut ZRC SAZU, DZS.Official Journal of the Republic of Slovenia, 14 November 2003 regarding the amalgamation of Lenart and Lušo and Sveti Lenart into a single settlement with the toponym Sveti LenartStatistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia: Sveti Lenart
Church
The local church is dedicated to Saint Leonard. The original church was Gothic, but was rebuilt after a fire in 1852. The church was again demolished in the Second World War. The current building was designed by the architect Janez Valentinčič.Škofja Loka municipal declaration of local churches as cultural monuments, 23 May 2007
References
External links
Sveti Lenart on Geopedia