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Prosenjakovci (; hu, Pártosfalva) 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 ...
in the
Municipality of Moravske Toplice The Municipality of Moravske Toplice (; sl, Občina Moravske Toplice) is a municipality in Slovenia, part of the Prekmurje region. Its seat is the spa settlement of Moravske Toplice. The municipality is an important center of Lutheranism in Slo ...
in the
Prekmurje Prekmurje (; dialectically: ''Prèkmürsko'' or ''Prèkmüre''; hu, Muravidék) is a geographically, linguistically, culturally and ethnically defined region of Slovenia, settled by Slovenes and a Hungarian minority, lying between the Mur R ...
region of
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, close to the border with
Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
.


Unmarked grave

Prosenjakovci is the site of an
unmarked grave An unmarked grave is one that lacks a marker, headstone, or nameplate indicating that a body is buried there. However, in cultures that mark burial sites, the phrase unmarked grave has taken on a metaphorical meaning. Metaphorical meaning As a ...
associated with the Second World War or its aftermath. The Prosenjakovci Grave ( sl, Grobišče Prosenjakovci) lies southwest of the village, behind the funeral chapel in the village cemetery. It contains the remains of a Hungarian that was shot while crossing the border illegally.


Churches

There are two small churches in the settlement, a
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chapel dedicated to Saint Joseph and a
Lutheran Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Cathol ...
chapel with a three-storey belfry, built in 1927.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number 24687


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Prosenjakovci on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Moravske Toplice {{MoravskeToplice-geo-stub