| Gornji Petrovci Občina Gornji Petrovci |
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| Holy Trinity church in Gornji Petrovci | |
| Location of the Municipality of Gornji Petrovci in Slovenia | |
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Gornji Petrovci
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| Country | Slovenia |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Franc Šlihthuber |
| Area | |
| • Total | 66.8 km2 (25.8 sq mi) |
| Population (2002)[1] | |
| • Total | 2,217 |
| • Density | 33.2/km2 (86/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+01) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+02) |
Gornji Petrovci (Hungarian: Péterhegy) is a town and a municipality in Slovenia. The municipality includes 14 villages, represented in the municipal coat of arms by fourteen simplified blue houses. The shield also includes a heraldic otter holding a golden fish. The municipal holiday is 18 August, chosen as the anniversary of the crash landing of a stratospheric balloon with the Belgian pioneering baloonists Max Cosyns and Nérée van der Elst in 1934.[2]
The majority of the population of the municipality are Lutherans, making Gornji Petrovci one of the very few Slovenian municipalities with a non-Catholic majority.
There are two churches in the village of Gornji Petrovci. The Roman Catholic Parish Church is dedicated to The Holy Trinity and is a structure that originates in the late 13th century, but was rebuilt on a number of occasions in the following centuries, preserving certain features from each phase. The relatively short nave is Romanesque, with Baroque internal fittings. The sanctuary is Late Gothic.[3] The local Evangelical church is a large single nave building which is one of the largest Evangelical churches in Prekmurje. It was built in 1804 and renovated in 1894.[4]
The writer Mátyás Godina and János Hüll, dean of Tótság (Slovenska okroglina), lived and died in the village. The physics teacher and irredentist Sándor Mikola was born here.
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