Mostec (, german: Brückel''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 4: ''Štajersko''. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 8.) is a

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in the

Municipality of Brežice The Municipality of Brežice (; sl, Občina Brežice) is a municipality in eastern Slovenia in the Lower Sava Valley along the border with Croatia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Brežice. The area was traditionally divided between ...

in eastern

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. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included in the

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Geography

Mostec lies the left bank of the

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River and is connected to Čatež ob Savi by a bridge across the river at the far west end of the village's territory. Fields lie east of the village, extending to Dobova. The Nakla fields lie to the north, the Goričke fields to the east, and the Ledinšce and Jevšine fields to the south along the Sava. Negot Creek, a tributary of the Sava, cuts through the Poljanšce fields to the east.Savnik, Roman, ed. 1976. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 3. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. p. 38.

History

During the Second World War, the German authorities deported the population of the village and resettled it with Gottschee Germans.

Mass graves

Mostec is the site of two

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from the Second World War. The graves contain the remains of Croatian prisoners of war,

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soldiers transported from the

Teharje camp The Teharje camp ( sl, taborišče Teharje) was a concentration camp near Teharje, Slovenia, organised by the Yugoslav secret police (OZNA) after the end of World War II in Yugoslavia. It was primarily used for the internment of Slovene Home Gua ...

, and Slovene and Croatian civilians. The Antitank Trench Mass Grave ( sl, Grobišče v protitankovskem jarku) dates from May and June 1945 and is located southeast of Mostec. The Mostec II Sava River Mass Grave () lies southwest of the settlement. The victims at the site were transported by bus from the

and the prison in Šentvid, and killings were carried out from May to October 1945 by

KNOJ The People’s Defence Corps of Yugoslavia or KNOJ ( sh, Korpus Narodne Odbrane Jugoslavije, mk, Корпус на народна одбрана Југославија, sl, Korpus narodne obrambe Jugoslavije), was a corps of the Yugoslav Parti ...

units of the

Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: , or the National Liberation Army, sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska (NOV), Народноослободилачка војска (НОВ); mk, Народноослобод� ...

. At least one busload of women was also transported to the site and killed because the Huda Jama Mass Grave was already full. Excavation of the mass graves was carried out in September 2020.

Church

The local church in the settlement is dedicated to Saints Fabian and Sebastian and belongs to the

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of Dobova. It is a late Baroque church built in 1767 in thanksgiving for the end of the

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Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Mostec include: * Jože Toporišič (1926–2014), linguistToporišič, Jože
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References

External links

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Mostec on Geopedia

Mostec.info
Accessed 19 February 2012. Populated places in the Municipality of Brežice {{Brežice-geo-stub