Kunšperk
Kunšperk (German: Königsberg) is a village and part of the municipality of Bistrica ob Sotli and is located in Lower Styria in Slovenia .
geography
The village corridor covers an area of 4.81 km² and consists mainly of high forest. It occupies the entire eastern area of the municipality and borders in the south on the two neighboring towns Bizeljska vas and Orešje na Bizeljskem of the municipality Brežice / Rann, in the east it follows the Croatian border with the Sotla to the north and touches the districts of the municipality Polje in the north-west and west pri Bistrici and Bistrica ob Sotli.
Königsberg / Kunšperk lies at the foot of the mountain ridge of the same name on the 208 m level . i. J. and has 120 inhabitants (2002). The settlement consists mainly of two groups of houses, which are distributed along the connecting road coming from Bistrica ob Sotli.
history
The place developed below the mighty frontier fortress of the bishops of Gurk and is mentioned for the first time in 1201. The clergyman "Rvobertus decanus de Chunesperch" mentioned in 1251 points to an already existing church, possibly the village church of St. James. On January 10, 1286, a local priest is mentioned again: "Bernhardo plebano in Chunsperch".
For the year 1436 is handed down “ain mairhof und vier hofstet”, located “there in our markcz Kunigsperg”. The place was then in possession of the market rights , but it was not fortified or walled. It is possible that the citizens secured the church of St. Jakob from 1471, when the Turkish invasions into Lower Styria began to increase, and expanded it with a circular wall to form a fortified church or Tabor .
On Jacob's Day in 1476, 2000 Turks crossed the Sava near Gurkfeld / Krško and devastated the land between the Drava , Save and Sottla, they plundered the towns of Montpreis / Planina pri Sevnici , Drachenburg / Kozje , Peilenstein / Pilštanj and Hörberg / Podsreda and went with them their prey via Königsberg to Croatia. Pastor Jakob Unrest reported in his chronicle about another Turkish incursion into the area around Königsberg, which also included Zagorien and reached as far as Krapina .
In Urbar the reign of King Mountain in 1566 the market will be listed by name twenty-six people. In addition to Slovenian citizen names such as Simon Kosiaker, Martin Mlinaritsch, Jakob Larentschitsch or Michl Schimetschitsch, among others, German names are also represented, e. B. Jakob Schmid, Stefan Haffner and Christof Mülner and others. Noteworthy are the names Jansche Starapraudo and Leonhard Puntschuech, possibly the designation for two revolutionary farmers. At that time the country folk demanded the reintroduction of the old law “za staro pravdo” from their authorities and wore a shoe as a sign of their covenant.
literature
- Atlas Slovenije, 109 maps 1:50 000 , Ljubljana 1985.
- Marjan Krušič et al., Slovenia, travel guide , Ljubljana, 1999.
- Jože Curk, Trgi in mesta na Slovenskem Štajerskem , Maribor 1991. ISBN 86-377-0611-8
- Ignaz Orožen , The Bishopric and Diocese of Lavant , VI. Theil, the dean's office in Drachenburg. Marburg, 1887.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 4 ′ N , 15 ° 42 ′ E