Gornji Slaveči
Gornji Slaveči (in Hungarian Felsőcsalogány ) is a village in the municipality of Kuzma in Slovenia .
geography
The scattered settlement has about 500 inhabitants and is partially distributed over the valley of the Lukaj brook with a small center around the parish church and the groups of houses on the mountain slopes. A peculiarity of the place is the field name "Gasa", which occurs only here, such as Kliničeva Gasa, Hubrova Gasa, Kiselakova Gasa, Mlinarjeva Gasa and Bracova Gasa. The village boundary is used exclusively for agriculture and forestry. The viticulture, which was still very much practiced at the beginning of the 20th century, has almost disappeared, vineyards are only cultivated as a hobby and for personal use. In the vicinity of the Benko farmstead, some natural mineral water springs spring from the earth, but they are not economically exploited.
The village is the seat of an evangelical rectory. The Protestant church building was erected in 1928 and painted inside in 1938 by the painter Cmerekar from Veržej / Wernsee. The church organ, a work of art by the organ builder Anton Jenko from Ljubljana / Laibach, dates from 1987. The rectory next to the church was completed in September 1981.
history
The place was first mentioned in a document in 1365 as "Felseueche". A year later, in 1366, it is noted: “Felsozaloucha in dystrictu Waralyakurniky”. The settlement was no longer in the area of the Dobra dominion ( Neuhaus am Klausenbach ), but already belonged to the Felsölendva dominion (Oberlimbach, today Grad ). In 1499 the village is called Felsewzalocha and in a protocol of the Diocese of Győr / Raab the place name Fölsö Szlavecsa is documented for the year 1698.
In 1890 the village is officially known as Felsöcsalogány and had 528 inhabitants, 508 of them known as Slovenes, 16 as Germans and 4 as Hungarians. The place belonged to the Muraszómbat district (today Murska Sobota ) of Vas / Eisenburg county .
The Trianon Peace Treaty added the village to the Kingdom of SHS . For the place now officially named Gornja Sloveča, the following data were determined in the census on January 31, 1921: 643 Slovenes, 2 Germans, 2 Hungarians, 4 people of other ethnicities; Of these 651 residents, 247 professed to be Catholic and 404 to Protestant faith.
The 1931 census found 647 inhabitants; in 1961 there were 541 and the following figures are known for 1971: 547 inhabitants, 114 houses, 118 households and 452 villagers who live exclusively on agricultural income.
During the Hungarian occupation from 1941–1945, men from Gornji Slaveči also resisted the occupying power, above all the evangelical chaplain and teacher Ludvik Čurman together with his brother Rudolf Čurman.
Personalities of the place
- Imre Lenarsich (* 1882, † 1966), publicist.
- Ludvik Čurman (Csurman) (* 1913, † 1943 in a concentration camp), Protestant chaplain and resistance fighter in WWII
- Rudolf Čurman (Csurman) (* 1898, † 1945, presumably in the Schömberg subcamp), resistance fighter in WWII
literature
- Ivan Zelko , Historična Topografija Slovenije I. Prekmurje do leta 1500. Murska Sobota, 1982.
- Matija Slavič, Naše Prekmurje. Murska Sobota, 1999.
- Atlas Slovenije, Ljubljana, 1985.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 49 ' N , 16 ° 4' E