Lobnica () is a settlement in the
Municipality of Ruše
The Municipality of Ruše (; sl, Občina Ruše) is a municipality in northeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Ruše. It lies on the right bank of the Drava River west of Maribor and extends south into the Pohorje Hill ...
in northeastern
Slovenia
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. It lies in the
Pohorje
Pohorje (), also known as the Pohorje Massif or the Pohorje Mountains (german: Bachergebirge, ''Bacherngebirge'' or often simply ''Bachern''), is a mostly wooded, medium-high mountain range south of the Drava River in northeastern Slovenia. Acco ...
Hills south of Ruše. The area is part of the traditional region of
Styria
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. The municipality is now included 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 ...
.
Mass graves
Lobnica is the site of 15 known
mass graves from the period immediately after the Second World War. The Ruše Lodge at Areh 2–16 mass graves ( sl, Grobišče pri Ruški koči na Arehu 2–16) are located east of Saint Henry's Church in
Frajhajm
Frajhajm () is a dispersed settlement in the Pohorje Hills in the Municipality of Slovenska Bistrica in northeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Drava ...
, along a gravel road towards Mount Sedovec. They 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 remains of 190 victims were exhumed from the Ruše Lodge at Areh 3 Mass Grave in 2006 and reinterred in an ossuary in the Dobrava Cemetery in southeast
Maribor
Maribor ( , , , ; also known by other #Name, historical names) is the second-largest city in Slovenia and the largest city of the traditional region of Styria (Slovenia), Lower Styria. It is also the seat of the City Municipality of Maribor, th ...
. The Ruše Lodge at Areh 6 Mass Grave is located on the north side of the dirt road in forest section 93. Sounding carried out in August 2007 failed to confirm remains at the Ruše Lodge at Areh 16 Mass Grave.
Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Lobnica include:
*
Alfonz Šarh (1893–1943),
Slovene Partisan
The Slovene Partisans, formally the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Slovenia, (NOV in POS) were part of Europe's most effective anti-Nazi resistance movement Jeffreys-Jones, R. (2013): ''In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western ...
and
People's Hero of Yugoslavia[Savnik, Roman, ed. 1980. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 4. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, p. 233.]
References
External links
Lobnica on Geopedia
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Populated places in the Municipality of Ruše