Holy Trinity Church
On the last section of the King of Triglav Trail, you will be able to see the Holy Trinity Church in Sebenje, located in a clearing halfway between Zasip and Podhom. The most interesting feature of this little church is the oldest small bell in Gorenjska, which was made in Tyrol in around the fourteenth or fifteenth century.
The Sebenje hoard
The church is not only famous for its bell, however. A few metres from the church, a local man was digging up rocks to build an embankment when he came across a veritable treasure – a chest containing 24 iron artefacts. His remarkable find proves that free Slav peasants were living and working here even in the early ninth century.
A chest of tools and weapons
The items found in the chest tell us something about the life of a free peasant on his farm in the period following the arrival of the Slavs in this area. The chest contained tools for tilling the soil and for working metal and leather, items of military equipment and tack for horses, spare tools, sickles, knives and a hook. Historians assume that the farmer obtained the weapons during a military expedition or perhaps even as a gift from the war.
The Sebenje hoard shatters myths about the earliest history of the inhabitants of Slovenia and refutes conjectures about the unwarlike nature of our ancestors that were based on the absence of weapons in graves. Today it is clear that the lack of weapons is a consequence of differences in funeral rites. The hoard also confirms that the inhabitants of this area were familiar with developed and efficient forms of agriculture.