Ples
Ples (German: Plesdorf) is a village and part of the municipality of Bistrica ob Sotli in Slovenia . It is located in the historical region of Lower Styria on the Croatian border.
geography
The local marker occupies the northern area of the municipality and is located west of the Bistrica / Feistritz stream in a sunny hill country cultivated with vineyards. The local area covers an area of 132 hectares and borders on the municipal parts Polje pri Bistrici in the east, Hrastje ob Bistrici in the south and Srebrnik in the west. To the east and north, the village corridor touches the Sotla River , which marks the Slovenian-Croatian border here.
The place has 60 inhabitants (2002) and has an average height of 240 m. i. J. a. The winegrowers' houses and the agricultural farms of the scattered settlement are spread over the entire village area. At the highest point of the village, the hill Vina Gora ( 327 m. I. J. ), the Holy Cross Church / Cerkev sv. Križa from the 17th century. The village of Ples is bordered in the south of its settlement area by the main road 219, an ancient trade route that connects the two Lower Styrian towns of Brežice / Rann and Slovenska Bistrica / Windischfeistritz.
history
The village was first mentioned in a document in 1480, in three variations: "Ples", "Plesdorf" and "an der Pless". In the land register of the Königsberg rule from 1566 the settlement and seven taxable subjects are named: "Vnter Ambt Pleßdorff: Suppan Martin, Matheko, Oswald Prach, Lukas, Gregor, Philipp Pangratschitsch, Jansche Pangratschitsch", furthermore a "Jakob ”Mentioned in“ Wonnigori ”, the tithe who worked the hill Vina Gora.
The settlement is also shown in the Josephine survey of the land (1784–1787): In the “lower village to the south, the Feistritz stream flows windisch Bisztritschicza into the Szotla, where it drives a mill”… “from the mountain, in front of the church of St. Kris a lot of the area can be overlooked… ”.
Even Carl dirt 1822 guides the City in his "Encyclopedia of Styria": "Pleßdorf, windisch Plesje, Cillier circle, community of the district and the manorial Wisell, Parish of St. Peter bey Konigsberg. Area measure together with Silberberg, 324 yoke and 1304 square fathers, including Aecker 81 yoke and 634 square fathoms, Wiesen 104 yoke and 132 square fathers, gardens 1331 square fathers, Huthweiden 114 yoke and 1130 square fathoms, vineyards 23 yoke and 975 square fathers. Houses 16, tenants 21, local population 123, including 66 female souls. Cattle stall 6 ".
The place was also included in the “Lexikon von Steiermark” by Josef Andreas Janisch (from 1878): “Plesdorf, slov. Ples, cadastral parish of the local community St. Peter near Königsberg, judicial district Drachenburg, parish and schooled after St. Peter near Königsberg, has 476 yoke or 273,700 Hkt. , 47 houses and 226 souls (111 ml., 115 wbl.) And consists of the villages of Plesdorf and Silberberg; the former has 18 houses with 100 souls (50 ml., 50 wbl.). The commune is separated from Croatia to the east by the Sottla, is level on this river, but hilly in the western parts where viticulture is practiced. The road from Windischlandsberg to St. Peter and Rann leads past the western border of the municipality. On the Silberberg one is healed. Chapel consecrated to the cross. "
At the census in 1880, Plesdorf consisted of 20 inhabited houses. 119 residents were counted (60 ml. And 59 wbl.) Who all professed their Catholic religion . 115 of the local residents used Slovene as a colloquial language, German as a colloquial language was not given.
In 1931 the village of Ples with its 106 inhabitants belonged to the municipality of Sveti Petar pod Svetimi gorami (St. Peter under the Holy Mountain) and was located in the Draubanat / Dravska banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia .
After the "smashing" of the Yugoslav state by the Axis powers in April 1941, the Greater German Reich also occupied Lower Styria. The "rebuilding" of administration and economy began immediately. For the town of Ples with its Slovenian population, this reorganization meant that almost the entire population was deported to Germany in November and December 1941 in the camps of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (VoMi). Ethnic Germans from the Gottschee were settled in the vacated houses and courtyards .
literature
- Atlas Slovenije, 109 maps 1: 50,000, Ljubljana 1985.
- Marjan Krušič et al., Slovenia, travel guide , Ljubljana, 1999.
- Ignaz Orožen , The Bishopric and Diocese of Lavant , VI. Theil, the dean's office in Drachenburg. Marburg, 1887.
- Carl Schmutz, Historisch Topographisches Lexicon von Steiermark , four volumes, Graz 1822 - 1823.
- Josef Andreas Janisch, Topographical-Statistical Lexicon of Styria , facsimile edition, Graz 1978. ISBN 3-85365-038-4
- Special-Orts-Repertorium, Styria , Vienna 1883.
- Milan Orožen Adamič et al., Priročni krajevni leksikon Slovenije , Ljubljana 1996.