The Studenci District (; sl, Mestna četrt Studenci) is a city district of the

City Municipality of Maribor The City Municipality of Maribor (), also the City of Maribor ( sl, Mestna občina Maribor, acronym MOM), is one of twelve city municipalities in Slovenia. Its seat is Maribor, the second-largest city in Slovenia. The population of the municipali ...

in northeastern

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. Notable landmarks include the Carinthian Bridge, which crosses the

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River.

Name

Studenci was first attested in written sources around 1100 with the German name ''Brunndorf''. The name ''Studenci'' derives from the Slovene word ''studenec'', and the German name ''Brunndorf'' from ''Brunnen'', both meaning '

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History

After the Second World War, a Yugoslav labor camp for political prisoners operated in Studenci until March 1946.

Church

The church in Studenci is dedicated to Saint Joseph. It stands on the right

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of the Drava River, bounded by the river to the north and by Bank Street ( sl, Obrežna ulica) and

Ruše Ruše (; german: Maria Rast) is a small town in northeastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Ruše and lies on the right bank of the Drava River west of Maribor. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now incl ...

Street ( sl, Ruška cesta) to the south. It is a single-nave church that was built between 1726 and 1728. An older church, dating to 1675, previously stood at the site. The church's somewhat bended bell tower dates from 1742–43. The

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and the oratory are 1764 works by the Maribor architect Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (1727–1804) and the pulpit, also dating to 1764, is the work of Jožef Holzinger (1735–1797). Other Baroque furnishings by Holzinger and Jožef Straub (1712–1756) were replaced by neo-Renaissance works after 1900. Of the main altar, work by Straub, only statues have been preserved in the Maribor Regional Museum.Savnik, Roman, ed. 1980. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 4. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, pp. 196–197. The chancel was redesigned in 1972 according to plans by the architect , whereas the altar has been replaced by a

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by the painter Ida Brišnik Remec.

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