Otovci
Otovci is a village and part of the municipality of Puconci and is located in the hilly Goričko in the historic Prekmurje region in Slovenia .
geography
The widely scattered place with its 255 inhabitants (2002) is the northernmost settlement of the municipality and is located in the source regions of the Mačkovski potok and Bezjakovski potok brooks, which arise in the central area of the Goričko hills and valleys. The neighboring towns of Otovci are: Boreča in the north, Stanjevci in the east, Mačkovci and Prosečka vas in the south and Vidonci in the west . The village is about 12 km away from the seat of the municipality and can be easily reached from the south on the main road No. 355, which leads from Murska Sobota to Hodoš . The village boundary is extremely hilly and varied, arable land alternates with meadows, corn fields are replaced by potato and beet fields. Fruit tree plantations have been laid out on sunny slopes and some vineyards are still being worked on. A large part of the village corridor is occupied by mixed forests rich in mushrooms, with pine , spruce and hornbeam dominating.
The farmsteads, some in the lowlands of the brooks (around 290 m. Y. Year ), some on slopes and mountain ridges, some on ridges and knolls (around 380 m. Y. Y.), Have the following house names: Bagarov Breg, Baksarovci, Benkin Breg, Cerova Graba, Duge Kerecke, Frumenovi, Gombocovi, Kačovi, Kerecov Dol, Miškin Breg, Podleskovi, Petkov Breg, Sabolovi, Smodišovi, Sukičke, Šebdjanov Breg, Vrej and Vučkin Breg.
history
The Pečnarovci settlement, which was first mentioned in a document as "Pechneruchi" in 1365, is now lost. The place was apparently on the west side of the village boundary of Otovci, about in the area of Petkov Breg and Cerova graba. In this area, the area consists of a sandy clay mixture that was used to produce excellent bricks until the 1960s , and the domestic pottery was also located here. Obviously, this lost place name ( Slovenian peč , furnace , pečnar = furnace builder, peči = bake) can be traced back to these terms.
Otovci is first mentioned in a document in 1366: "Othouch in dystrictu Waralyakurniky". The same document also states: “Pechnarouch in dystrictu Waralyakurniky”. The two settlements were located in the area of the Felsölendva dominion (Oberlimbach, today Grad ), which at that time belonged to the Hungarian magnate family Széchy . In 1499 both settlements are documented with the place names Othowcz and Pesnarowcz. In a protocol of the Diocese of Győr / Raab from 1698 it is noted that the inhabitants of the place Pecsnárocz were assigned to the parish Maria Himmelfahrt in Felsölendva / Grad and the inhabitants of the place Otocz belonged to the parish of the Holy Trinity after Petrocz / Gornji Petrovci . The place Odowce or Ottócz is clearly visible in a map from 1785, although the Pečnarovci settlement is no longer mentioned.
In 1890 the village is officially called Ottoháza and had 419 inhabitants, 418 of them known as Slovenes and one as Hungarian. The place belonged to the Muraszombat / Murska Sobota district and was in Vas / Eisenburg county .
The Trianon Treaty gave the village to the Kingdom of SHS . For the place now officially called Otovci, the following data were determined in the census on January 31, 1921: 500 Slovenes and 3 other ethnic groups; Of these 503 residents, 164 professed to be Catholic and 339 to Protestant faith.
The 1931 census found 463 inhabitants, in 1961 there were 411 and the following figures are known for 1971: 341 inhabitants, 81 houses, 80 households and 316 villagers who live exclusively from agriculture.
literature
- Ivan Zelko : Historična Topografija Slovenije I. Prekmurje do leta 1500. Murska Sobota, 1982.
- Matija Slavič: Naše Prekmurje. Murska Sobota, 1999.
- Jože Sraka: Prekmurci in Prekmurje. Chicago, 1984.
- Atlas Slovenije. Ljubljana 1985.
Web links
- Map Otovci. In: geopedia.si
Coordinates: 46 ° 49 ' N , 16 ° 9' E