Malahorna (, in older sources: ''Maloharna'', german: Malahorn) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

in the

Municipality of Oplotnica The Municipality of Oplotnica (; sl, Občina Oplotnica) is a municipality in the traditional region of Lower Styria, Styria in northeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Oplotnica. It was formed in 1998, when it was split ...

in eastern

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 ...

. 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 ...

. 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 ...

, built on a low hill south of the settlement, is dedicated to Saint Barbara and belongs to the parish of Čadram–Oplotnica. It dates to the mid-15th century with 17th-century additions.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 2928

References

External links

Malahorna on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Oplotnica {{Oplotnica-geo-stub