Skip to content
Ostenk
EntityQ644475· pop 13· linked from 29 articles

Ostenk (; sometimes Ostenik) is a settlement in the Municipality of Trbovlje in central Slovenia. It lies in the hills northeast of the town of Trbovlje. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Central Sava Statistical Region. Ostenk is a scattered settlement on a ridge centered on the Ostenk Crest (). It is bordered to the south by Ostenik Hill—which is also known as Žrebelj Hill (, literally 'nail hill') on the Hrastnik side.

Weather now

cached 1430h ago
18°overcast clouds
81% 2.1 m/s OpenWeatherMap

7-day forecast

via Open-Meteo

Place details

Locality
Ostenk
Region
Municipality of Trbovlje
Country
Slovenija
Population
218

via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames

Air quality

36US AQIGood
PM2.5
7.1 µg/m³
PM10
10.2 µg/m³
As of 2026-08-15 03:00 · Open-Meteo

Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Ostenk
Settlement.other_name
Sveti Marko (until 1955)
Settlement.image_skyline
Ostenk IMG 0930.jpg
Settlement.imagesize
250px
Settlement.pushpin_map
Slovenia
Settlement.pushpin_label_position
bottom
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
Location in Slovenia
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_name
25px Slovenia
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Traditional region
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Styria
Settlement.subdivision_type2
Statistical region
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Central Sava
Settlement.subdivision_type3
Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name3
Trbovlje
Settlement.area_total_km2
1.97
Settlement.population_as_of
2002
Settlement.population_total
190

via Wikipedia infobox

~2 min read

Encyclopedic overview

4 sections
Contents
  • Name
  • Church
  • References
  • External links

Ostenk (; sometimes Ostenik) is a settlement in the Municipality of Trbovlje in central Slovenia. It lies in the hills northeast of the town of Trbovlje. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Central Sava Statistical Region. Ostenk is a scattered settlement on a ridge centered on the Ostenk Crest (). It is bordered to the south by Ostenik Hill—which is also known as Žrebelj Hill (, literally 'nail hill') on the Hrastnik side.

==Name== The name of the settlement was changed from Sveti Marko (literally, 'Saint Mark') to Ostenk 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. The settlement was known as Jelšje in the 18th century, when it consisted of two farms. The name Jelšje now refers to a hamlet of Ostenk northwest of the main settlement.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ostenk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

On the map

2 mapped locations