Cven (, ) is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the

Municipality of Ljutomer The Municipality of Ljutomer (; ) is a municipality in northeastern Slovenia, some east of Maribor. Traditionally it was part of the region of Styria. It is now included in the Mura Statistical Region. Its largest settlement and the administrat ...

in eastern

Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ...

. The area is part of the traditional region of

Styria Styria ( ; ; ; ) is an Austrian Federal states of Austria, state in the southeast of the country. With an area of approximately , Styria is Austria's second largest state, after Lower Austria. It is bordered to the south by Slovenia, and cloc ...

and is now included in the

Mura Statistical Region The Mura Statistical Region () is a Statistical regions of Slovenia, statistical region in northeast Slovenia. It is predominantly agriculture, agricultural with field crops representing over three-quarters of the total agricultural area (twice as ...

Name

Cven was attested in written sources in 1445 as ''Wyenn'' and circa 1500 as ''Wienn''. The Slovene name ''Cven'' is borrowed from the

Middle High German Middle High German (MHG; or ; , shortened as ''Mhdt.'' or ''Mhd.'') is the term for the form of High German, High German language, German spoken in the High Middle Ages. It is conventionally dated between 1050 and 1350, developing from Old High ...

prepositional phrase ''ze Wienn'', literally 'at Wienn'. The name ''Wienn'' refers to a manor built in the 14th century by a military commander named Aman. It may be derived from the

noun ''win'' 'acquisition'.Savnik, Roman, ed. 1980. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 4. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. p. 131. For similar Slovene geographical names based on foreign-language prepositional phrases of location, compare '' Cmurek'', ''

Crngrob Crngrob (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 62.) is a small village in the Municipality of Škofja Loka in the Upper Carniola region of ...

'', ''

Dragonja The Dragonja (; ) is a long river in the northern part of the Istrian peninsula. It is a meandering river with a very branched basin and a small quantity of water. It has a pluvial regime and often dries up in summer. It features very diverse ...

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Sostro Sostro (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna.) is a formerly independent settlement in the eastern part of the capital Ljubljana in central ...

'', and ''

Spuhlja Spuhlja (, in older sources ''Spuhla'', ) is a settlement in the Municipality of Ptuj in northeastern Slovenia. It lies east of the town of Ptuj, just north of Lake Ptuj (a reservoir on the Drava, Drava River). The area is part of the traditional r ...

''.

History

Potsherds and human remains from antiquity have been found in the settlement, testifying to early settlement in the area. The village was sacked during a peasant uprising in 1704, and the castle was also burned and never rebuilt. Cven Castle was surrounded by a

meander A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the Channel (geography), channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erosion, erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank (cut bank, cut bank or river cl ...

in the Murica River on three sides and protected by a moat on the fourth side. Cven was known for horse breeding from the mid-19th century until the Second World War. Horse races were held as early as 1850 along the road from

Ljutomer Ljutomer (; ) is a town in northeastern Slovenia, east of Maribor. It is the seat of the Municipality of Ljutomer. Traditionally it was part of the region of Styria. It is now included in the Mura Statistical Region. The economy of Ljutomer is la ...

to Križevci pri Ljutomeru, and a horse racing society was established in 1875, which also set up a racetrack in Cven. A school was established in the village in 1879, and a fire station was built in 1892.

Cultural heritage

There is a small

chapel A chapel (from , a diminutive of ''cappa'', meaning "little cape") is a Christianity, Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several meanings. First, smaller spaces inside a church that have their o ...

with a

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in the centre of the village. It is dedicated to

Saint Joseph According to the canonical Gospels, Joseph (; ) was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus. Joseph is venerated as Saint Joseph in the Catholic Church, Eastern O ...

and was built in 1867.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number 3110

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Cven include: * Jakob Babič (1909–1941), political activist * Aleksander Dimitrijev (ca. 1868–1942), Russian colonel, horse-breeding specialist, and technical writer * Avgust Loparnik (1911–?), musician *

Stanko Pušenjak Stanko or Stańko () is a variation of the Slavic masculine given name Stanislav. Nicknames in . Notable people with the name include: Given name: *Stanko Abadžić (born 1952), Croatian photographer and photojournalist *Stanko Barać (born 1986), ...

(1895–1965), healthcare worker *

Tomaž Pušenjak Tomaž is the Slovene form of the male given name Thomas. People Bearers of these names include: *Tomaž Barada, Slovenian martial artist * Tomaž Čižman (born 1965), Slovenian alpine skier *Tomaž Humar (born 1969), Slovenian mountaineer * Toma ...

(1861–1920), beekeeper and agricultural specialist * Vekoslav Raič (1844–1929), social activist * Ivan Rajh (1842–1908), politician * Janez Reich (1857–1938), education specialist *

Franc Seršen The franc is any of various units of currency. One franc is typically divided into 100 centimes. The name is said to derive from the Latin inscription ''francorum rex'' (King of the Franks) used on early French coins and until the 18th century, ...

(1850–1916), social activist *

Peter Skuhala Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a sur ...

(1850–1916), poet, storyteller, and journalist * Franc Vozlič (1853–1915), folklore specialist

References

External links

Cven on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Ljutomer {{Ljutomer-geo-stub