Mostec

Mostec
Mostec

Location in Slovenia

Coordinates: 45°53′56.12″N 15°37′43.08″E / 45.8989222°N 15.6286333°E / 45.8989222; 15.6286333Coordinates: 45°53′56.12″N 15°37′43.08″E / 45.8989222°N 15.6286333°E / 45.8989222; 15.6286333
Country Slovenia
Traditional region Styria
Statistical region Lower Sava
Municipality Brežice
Area
 • Total 2.24 km2 (0.86 sq mi)
Elevation 143.2 m (469.8 ft)
Population (2002)
 • Total 181
[1]

Mostec (pronounced [ˈmoːstəts]) is a village on the left bank of the Sava River in the Municipality of Brežice in eastern Slovenia. The area was traditionally part of Styria. It is now included in the Lower Sava Statistical Region.[2]

The local church in the settlement is dedicated to Saints Fabian and Sebastian and belongs to the Parish of Dobova. It is a late Baroque church built in 1767 in thanksgiving for the end of the plague.[3]

Mass graves

Mostec is the site of two mass graves from the Second World War. The graves contain the remains of Croatian prisoners of war, Home Guard soldiers transported from the Teharje camp, and Slovene and Croatian civilians. The Antitank Trench Mass Grave (Slovene: Grobišče v protitankovskem jarku) dates from May and June 1945 and is located southeast of Mostec.[4] The Mostec II Sava River Mass Grave (Mostec II - grobišče ob Savi) lies southwest of the settlement.[5] In 2010 the Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia discovered a mass grave in Mostec containing the bodies of people killed by the Yugoslav Partisans in 1945.[6][7]

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Mostec include:

References

  1. ↑ Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. ↑ Brežice municipal site
  3. ↑ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number 2941
  4. ↑ Antitank Trench Mass Grave on Geopedia (Slovene)
  5. ↑ Mostec II Sava River Mass Grave on Geopedia (Slovene)
  6. ↑ Otkrivena još jedna masovna grobnica u Sloveniji (Serbian), Tanjug
  7. ↑ Slovenia: Mass grave with post-WWII victims found
  8. ↑ Toporišič, Jože (Slovene)
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