Jasen (; it, Jasena) is a settlement immediately southeast of

Ilirska Bistrica Ilirska Bistrica (; german: Illyrisch Feistritz; it, Villa del Nevoso, before 1927: ''Bisterza,'' Hungarian: ''Illírbeszterce'') is a town in the Inner Carniola region of southwestern Slovenia. It is the administrative seat of the Municipality ...

in the

Inner Carniola Inner Carniola ( sl, Notranjska; german: Innerkrain) is a traditional region of Slovenia, the southwestern part of the larger Carniola region. It comprises the Hrušica karst plateau up to Postojna Gate, bordering the Slovenian Littoral (the ...

region of

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Mass graves

Jasen is the site of five known

mass graves A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may Unidentified decedent, 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 executi ...

or unmarked graves from the Second World War. Four of them contain the remains of German soldiers from the 97th Corps that fell at the beginning of May 1945. The Jasen Mass Grave ( sl, Grobišče Jasen) encompasses three sites from the house at Jasen no. 1a. They contain the remains of 84, eight, and six soldiers, respectively. The Jasen No. 11 Mass Grave () lies in the yard of the house at Jasen no. 11a. It contains the remains of three or four soldiers. The Church Grave () is located by an electric pole between the house at Jasen no. 16a and the church. It contains the remains of one soldier. The Jasen No. 4 Grave () lies in the yard of the house at Jasen no. 4. It contains the remains of one soldier. The Baba Mass Grave () is located in the bushes next to a fenced pasture about northeast of the house at Jasen no. 48. It contains the remains of two Chetniks accidentally shot by German troops.

Church

The small church in the settlement is dedicated to

Saint Joachim Joachim (; ''Yəhōyāqīm'', "he whom Yahweh has set up"; ; ) was, according to Christian tradition, the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the Biblical apocrypha ...

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 o ...

of Ilirska Bistrica.Koper Diocese list of churches

References

External links

Jasen on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Ilirska Bistrica {{IlirskaBistrica-geo-stub