Tomaž nad Vojnikom


Tomaž nad Vojnikom is a settlement in the Municipality of Vojnik in eastern Slovenia. It lies in the hills east of Vojnik. The area was traditionally part of the Styria region. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Savinja Statistical Region.

Name

The name of the settlement was changed from Sveti Tomaž nad Vojnikom to Tomaž nad Vojnikom 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 Thomas and belongs to the Parish of Vojnik. It was built in a Neo-Romanesque style in the 1890s on the site of an earlier church first mentioned in written documents dating to the 13th century.