Bodonci (; hu, BodóhegyVengušt, Jernej. 1919. ''Seznamek prekmurskih občin (krajev) z označbo pošte in zemljevidom.'' Radgona, p. 4.
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in the

Municipality of Puconci The Municipality of Puconci (; sl, Občina Puconci) is a municipality in the traditional region of Prekmurje in northeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Puconci. Puconci became a municipality in 1994. The majority of t ...

in the Prekmurje region of

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. There is a large

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church named after István Küzmics ''(Števan Küzmič)'' in the settlement. The original church was a wooden structure built in 1792. In 1800 this was replaced by a more solid structure, but the current church was built on the same site in 1899, based on the plans by the

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Daniel Placotta from

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and is a typical example of a church with a central

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and two side

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s with a gallery and tall narrow windows.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number 4146

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Bodonci include: *

Iván Fliszár Iván Fliszár ''(Ivan Flisar, Janoš Flisar)'' was an obscure Slovene Lutheran teacher in Hungary. He wrote his manuscript prayer-book in Prekmurje Slovene in Bodonci. This may have been the first Lutheran prayer-book in the Prekmurje dialect ...

* István Szmodis (1758–?), writer

References

External links

Bodonci on GeopediaEvangelical Lutheran church in Bodonci site
Populated places in the Municipality of Puconci {{Puconci-geo-stub