Boreča
Boreča ( Hungarian Borháza) is a village in the municipality of Gornji Petrovci in Slovenia . The place is about 7 km northwest of the community center at the origin of the Merak brook.
geography
The settlement has about 110 inhabitants and is scattered on a sunny ridge above the Merak brook. The individual groups of houses have the field names Šporini, Fickini, Pekini, Spodnji kraj, Srednji kraj and Zgornji kraj. The place is very lonely and is surrounded by large pine forests. The place name Boreča is apparently derived from the pine (Slovene bor = pine).
history
The place is first mentioned in a document in 1387 with Burecha and Bureche. He belonged to the Dobra rule , today's Neuhaus am Klausenbach in southern Burgenland. With the acquisition of this lordship in the year mentioned, the Hungarian magnate family Széchy rounded off their property in the region, because as early as 1365 they had become lords of the castle and lordship of Felsölendva (today Grad ). In 1499 the place was officially named Borecha. In a protocol of the Diocese of Győr / Raab for the year 1698 it is recorded that the village "Boracsa" is assigned to the Catholic parish of the Holy Trinity in Petrocz (Gornji Petrovci).
In 1890 the village is officially called Borháza and had 273 inhabitants, 270 of them known as Slovenes and 3 as Germans. The place was in the Muraszombat district, today's Murska Sobota , in Eisenburg / Vas county.
The Treaty of Trianon added the village to the Kingdom of SHS on June 4, 1920 . For the place now officially named Boreča, the following data were determined in the census on January 31, 1921: 303 Slovenes, of these 303 residents 179 professed to be Catholic and 124 to Protestant faith.
The 1931 census found 265 inhabitants, in 1961 there were 225 and the following figures are known for 1971: 207 inhabitants, 49 houses, 47 households and 193 villagers who live exclusively from agriculture.
Church of Saint Anne
Southeast of the village, about 20 minutes' walk away, stands on a hill 395 m. i. J. , in the middle of a secluded forest clearing, the St. Anna branch church . Immediately next to the church there is a cemetery for the villages of Šulinci , Boreča and Ženavlje . Every year on July 26th, the name day of St. Anna, a big church festival takes place here, on which numerous visitors from near and far meet.
The simple structure consists of a rectangular nave and a somewhat lower and narrower, polygonally closed presbytery , which is supported at the outer corners by six buttresses. The main portal on the west side, the ogival windows and the side entrance on the south side, as well as the triumphal arch separating the apse from the nave , testify to the originally Gothic style of the building. The wooden, clapboard-clad bell tower that is supported on the west side of the building by the roof of the nave is quite unusual.
It is very likely that the church building was erected in the second decade of the 16th century and completed in 1521. This year is also carved above the main portal on the west side. The builder and then landowner of the area, Thomas Széchy , died five years later in the battle of Mohatsch .
On the occasion of a church visit by the diocese of Raab / Győr in 1627, the church of St. Anna is mentioned as a branch of the parish church of the Holy Trinity in Gornji Petrovci. During a further inspection in 1698 it is mentioned that the building was set on fire during a Turkish raid and badly damaged.
At the instigation of the Oberlimbach owner, Count Leopold Nádasdy, and with the approval of the then Bishop of Raab / Győr Adolf Groll, the sacred building was extensively renovated in 1739. The interior was given a baroque look that was in keeping with contemporary tastes.
In 1911, the building was again thoroughly restored, and the church also received a new altar at that time. Extensive repairs were carried out again in 2000, and the building succeeded in restoring a number of details of its original late Gothic character.
Personalities
- József Ficzkó (1772–1843), Catholic priest and Burgenland-Croatian writer .
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.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 50 ' N , 16 ° 9' E