Puconci

	Puconci ; cleaning ; village Battyánd
Basic data
Country	Slovenia
Historic region	Übermurgebiet / Prekmurje
Statistical region	Pomurska (Mur region)
Coordinates	46 ° 44 ' N , 16 ° 8' E Coordinates: 46 ° 44 '15 " N , 16 ° 7' 46" E
surface	107.58 km²
Residents	6,256 (2008)
Population density	58 inhabitants per km²
Post Code	9201
License Plate	MS
Structure and administration
structure	local community
Mayor :	Ludvik Novak
Website	www.puconci.si

Puconci ( Slovenian [ˈpuːtsɔntsi]; in older sources also Pucinci , Hungarian Battyánd , Prekmurian Püconci , German Putzendorf ) is a municipality and a town in the historic Prekmurje region in Slovenia . In 2016, Puconci was awarded the honorary title of “ Reformation City of Europe ” by the Community of Evangelical Churches in Europe .

Evangelical Lutheran Church of Puconci

geography

The municipality has the central portion of the hill and grave state of Goricko and claimed in the southern area of play already on the wide of Ledava and Mur formed plains of Ravensko . The municipality covers an area of 107.58 km² and borders in the north on the municipalities Grad and Gornji Petrovci , in the east on the municipality Moravske Toplice , in the south on the municipalities Murska Sobota and Tišina and in the west on the municipalities Cankova and Rogašovci .

history

Both the village and the parish of Puconci can look back on a long Evangelical-Lutheran tradition. Numerous writers who shaped Prekmurian literature - many of them Lutheran clergy - worked here (see the section on personalities ). The Lutheran church in the center of the village was built as the first Lutheran church in the Prekmurje region in 1784 and redesigned in 1909.

Puconci is one of the few Slovenian parishes with a majority of Lutheran residents. In recognition of Puconci’s role in the history of the Reformation, the community bears the honorary title “ Reformation City of Europe ”.

Inhabitants and community structure

The municipality has 6,256 inhabitants (as of 2008) and is made up of 23 localities. The official Hungarian exonyms from 1890 are given in brackets after today's place names .

Beznovci (Búzahely)
Bodonci (Bodóhegy)
Bokrači (Bokrács)
Brezovci (Vasnyíres)
Dankovci (Őrfalu)
Dolina (Völgyes)
Gorica (Halmosfö)
Kuštanovci (Gesztenyés)
Lemerje (Nyíreslehomér)
Mačkovci (Mátyásdomb)
Moščanci (Musznya)
Otovci (Ottóháza)

Pečarovci (Szentsebestyén)
Poznanovci (Pálhegy)
Predanovci (Rónafő)
Prosečka vas (Kölesvölgy)
Puconci (Báttyand)
Puževci (Pálmafa)
Strukovci (Sűrűház)
Salamenci (Salamon)
Vadarci (Tiborfa)
Vaneča (Vaslak)
Zenkovci (Zoltánháza)

traffic

Puconci is on the Zalalövő – Murska Sobota railway line .

Personalities

Celebrities born, died and resident in the municipality of Puconci:

Mihály Bertalanits (1788-1853) died in Pečarovci, cantor, teacher and poet, co-editor of the Prekmurian hymn book (1789) by cantor teacher Ruzsics (Prekmurian: Kantor-školnik Ružič, Slovenian: Kantor-učitelj Ružič)

Ferenc Berke (1764–1841) died in Puconci, Lutheran superintendent and writer, co-editor of the second edition of the New Testament in Prekmurian by István Küzmics

György Czipott (1793 or 1794–1834), from Puconci (?), Lutheran pastor and writer

Rudolf Czipott (1825–1901) died in Puconci, son of György Czipott, Lutheran pastor and writer

Iván Fliszár , Lutheran teacher, wrote the first handwritten Lutheran prayer book in Prekmurian in Bodonci before 1797

János Fliszár (1856–1947) from Šalamenci, translator, poet, writer, journalist and teacher, authored a Wendish-Hungarian / Hungarian-Wendish dictionary ( Magyar-vend szótár = Vogrszki-vendiski (vogrszkiszlovénszki, sztári szlovénsnik29, OCLC- 45C-CLC-45 )

Mátyás Godina (approx. 1768–1835) from Lemerje, Lutheran pastor in Budonci and Gornji Petrovci, writer and teacher, wrote hymns and sermons in Prekmurian

Feri Horvat (1941–) from Kuštanovci, politician ( ZLSD ), President of the Slovenian Parliament (2004)

Jožef Kerec (1892–1974) from Prosečka Vas, first Slovenian Salesian missionary in China, Apostolic Administrator in Zhaotong

József Klekl (Sr./d. Ä.) (1874–1948), Catholic priest in Pečarovci, politician in Hungary, writer, chairman of the Slovenian People's Party (Slovenska lüdska stranka), MP in Belgrade, representative of the Prekmurjes independence movement

Mihály Kolossa (1846–1906) from Puconci, farmer and writer, co-editor of the revised new edition of the Lutheran hymn book ( Mrtvecsne peszmi / Totengesänge, 1887) in Prekmurian by István Szijjártó

István Küzmics (1723–1779) from Strukovci, Protestant pastor, translator of the New Testament ( Nouvi Zákon , 1771), founder of the Prekmurian literary language

Gergely Luthár (1841–1925), notary in Puconci, co-editor of the revised new edition of the Lutheran hymn book ( Mrtvecsne peszmi / Totengesänge, 1887) in Prekmurian by István Szijjártó

István Lülik (? –1847), Lutheran schoolmaster and writer in Puconci, translated a textbook from German for the Prekmurian Lutheran schools

Iván Persa (1861–1935), died in Pečarovci, Catholic priest and writer, author of a work on the Scapular ( Od vnouge i velke miloscse i pomoucsi szvétoga skapulera )

József Szakovics (1874–1930) from Vadarci, Catholic priest, revision of the Slovenian Catechism ( Katoličanski Katekizmuš )

István Szijjártó (1765–1833), Lutheran teacher in Puconci, poet, author of the Lutheran hymn book ( Mrtvecsne peszmi / chants for the dead )

István Szmodis (1758–?), Lutheran pastor in Bodonci and writer, wrote songs and sermons in Prekmurian

Sándor Terplan (1816-1858), a Lutheran chaplain and pastor in Puconci, writers, wrote two prayer books for funerals and vigils (1838), a Beichtbuch for the sick Supper (1849, German), a textbook and a book of Psalms

Mihály Szever Vanecsai (approx. 1699–1750) from Vaneča, wrote the third oldest surviving work in Prekmurian, Réd zvelicsánsztva ( Expectant Rescue, 1742)

literature

Ivan Zelko : Historična Topografija Slovenije I. Prekmurje do leta 1500 (= Izdala Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti in Zgodovinski inštitut Milka Kosa ). Pomurska založba, Murska Sobota 1982.
Matija Slavič: Naše Prekmurje. Zbrane razprave in članki (= Zbirka Monumenta Pannonica ). Pomurska založba, Murska Sobota 1999, ISBN 86-7195-316-5 .
Vili Kos: Atlas Slovenije. Slovenija v sliki in besedi. Mladinska knjiga in Geodetski zavod SR Slovenije, Ljubljana 1985, OCLC 38685803 .

Web links

Commons : Puconci - collection of images, videos and audio files

Website of the municipality (Slovenian)
The municipalities in Goričko: Puconci. In: park-goricko.org (German)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Jernej Vengušt: Seznamek prekmurskih občin (krajev) z označbo pošte in zemljevidom. J. Vengust, Radgona 1919, OCLC 439205823 , p. 12 ( PDF; 6.7 MB ) (Slovenian).

↑ Živinsko i drobno senje (sejmi) v Sl. Krajini. In: Nájszvetejsega Szrca Jezusovoga veliki kalendár za lüdsztvo. Volume 26, Tisk. Ernest Balkányi, Dolnja Lendava 1929, p. 103 ( PDF; 21.6 MB ) (Slovenian).

↑ See the city portrait in CPCE project site on Puconci: The public among the secret Protestants. In: reformation-cities.org, accessed on September 30, 2017, and the city portrait in the project site for the European Station Path : Puconci. In: r2017.org, accessed on September 14, 2016.

↑ See Slovenian Ministry of Culture Register of national heritage: identification number 4153. In: giskd2s.situla.org, accessed on July 13, 2016 (Slovenian).

^ Pogled v zgodovino ( Look into history ) ( Memento from April 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: evang-cerkev.si/puconci, accessed on July 14, 2016 (website of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Puconci; Slovenian).

↑ List of pastor in Bodonci. In: evang-bodonci.si, accessed on July 15, 2016 (Slovenian).

[Vengust-1] Jernej Vengušt: Seznamek prekmurskih občin (krajev) z označbo pošte in zemljevidom. J. Vengust, Radgona 1919, OCLC 439205823 , p. 12 ( PDF; 6.7 MB ) (Slovenian).

[2] Živinsko i drobno senje (sejmi) v Sl. Krajini. In: Nájszvetejsega Szrca Jezusovoga veliki kalendár za lüdsztvo. Volume 26, Tisk. Ernest Balkányi, Dolnja Lendava 1929, p. 103 ( PDF; 21.6 MB ) (Slovenian).