Mostec

Mostec
Mostec
Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 45°53′56.12″N 15°37′43.08″E / 45.8989222°N 15.6286333°E / 45.8989222; 15.6286333Coordinates: 45°53′56.12″N 15°37′43.08″E / 45.8989222°N 15.6286333°E / 45.8989222; 15.6286333
Country Slovenia
Traditional region Styria
Statistical region Lower Sava
Municipality Brežice
Area
 • Total 2.24 km2 (0.86 sq mi)
Elevation 143.2 m (469.8 ft)
Population (2002)
 • Total 181
[1]

Mostec (pronounced [ˈmoːstəts], German: Brückel[2]) is a village in the Municipality of Brežice in eastern Slovenia. The area was traditionally part of Styria. It is now included in the Lower Sava Statistical Region.[3]

Geography

Mostec lies the left bank of the Sava River and is connected to Čatež ob Savi by a bridge across the river at the far west end of the village's territory. Fields lie east of the village, extending to Dobova. The Nakla fields lie to the north, the Goričke fields to the east, and the Ledinšce and Jevšine fields to the south along the Sava. Negot Creek, a tributary of the Sava, cuts through the Poljanšce fields to the east.[4]

History

During the Second World War, the German authorities deported the population of the village and resettled it with Gottschee Germans.[4]

Mass graves

Mostec is the site of two mass graves from the Second World War. The graves contain the remains of Croatian prisoners of war, Home Guard soldiers transported from the Teharje camp, and Slovene and Croatian civilians. The Antitank Trench Mass Grave (Slovene: Grobišče v protitankovskem jarku) dates from May and June 1945 and is located southeast of Mostec.[5] The Mostec II Sava River Mass Grave (Mostec II - grobišče ob Savi) lies southwest of the settlement.[6] In 2010 the Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia discovered a mass grave in Mostec containing the bodies of people killed by the Yugoslav Partisans in 1945.[7][8]

Church

The local church in the settlement is dedicated to Saints Fabian and Sebastian and belongs to the Parish of Dobova. It is a late Baroque church built in 1767 in thanksgiving for the end of the plague.[4][9]

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Mostec include:

References

  1. ↑ Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. ↑ Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 4: Štajersko. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 8.
  3. ↑ Brežice municipal site
  4. 1 2 3 4 Savnik, Roman, ed. 1976. Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 3. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. p. 38.
  5. ↑ Antitank Trench Mass Grave on Geopedia (in Slovene)
  6. ↑ Mostec II Sava River Mass Grave on Geopedia (in Slovene)
  7. ↑ Otkrivena još jedna masovna grobnica u Sloveniji (in Serbian), Tanjug
  8. ↑ Slovenia: Mass grave with post-WWII victims found
  9. ↑ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number 2941
  10. ↑ Toporišič, Jože (in Slovene)
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