Frajhajm () is a
dispersed settlement
A dispersed settlement, also known as a scattered settlement, is one of the main types of settlement patterns used by landscape historians to classify rural settlements found in England and other parts of the world. Typically, there are a numb ...
in the
Pohorje Hills in the
Municipality of Slovenska Bistrica
The Municipality of Slovenska Bistrica (; sl, Občina Slovenska Bistrica) is a municipality in the traditional region of Styria in northeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Slovenska Bistrica. Slovenska Bistrica became a ...
in northeastern
Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...
. The area is part of the traditional region of
Styria
Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...
. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the
Drava Statistical Region
The Drava Statistical Region ( sl, Podravska statistična regija) is a statistical region in Slovenia. The largest city in the region is Maribor. The region's name comes from the Drava River and includes land on both banks along its course thro ...
.
Church
The local
church
Church may refer to:
Religion
* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
* Chris ...
is dedicated to
Saint Henry ( sl, sveti Areh) and belongs to the
Parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...
of
Sveti Martin na Pohorju. It dates to the 13th century with 16th- and 17th-century alterations.
Mass graves
Frajhajm is the site of six known
mass graves
A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial. The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of execution, although an exact ...
from the period immediately after the Second World War. They all contain the remains of civilian victims and prisoners of war that were brought from Maribor and the surrounding region and murdered in May and June 1945. The Ruše Lodge at Areh 1 Mass Grave ( sl, Grobišče pri Ruški koči na Arehu 1) is located east of Saint Henry's Church. The Jure Saddle 1–3 mass graves () are clustered together in the northeast part of the settlement on a slope below the Zarja Hotel. The local people have marked the site with two logs arranged in a cross shape. The first measures , the second , and the third . The Zarja 1 and 2 mass graves () also lie below the Zarja Hotel. The first is between the hotel and the main road, and the second is south of the main road.
References
External links
Frajhajm on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Slovenska Bistrica
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