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19. February, 2020
Strawberry holding basket made of birch bark. It was used when picking wild strawberries in the forest.
4. March, 2020
Container made of straw and willow with a spiral technique for storing grain and legumes. Its broad belly ends in 7 cm-long neck. It stands on crossed slats, 23-23 cm in length.
3. March, 2020
A fire-making tool, having the shape of a narrow axe, an oval hole, of forged iron.
18. August, 2020
In one of the caves at the Oloris archaeological site near Dolnji Lakoš, the top part of a larger ceramic vessel with handles was found. It was hand thrown, is orange-brown in colour, with a smooth surface and is made of earthenware clay. It has four handles. One of the handles is in the shape…
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11. February, 2020
The songbook contains many folk songs from the Prekmurje Region. The songs were collected by at least two collectors. The former part was recorded by Perša Janos and the later part was written by Perša Jožef. Some texts also include the source name. The exact date of origin is unknown. The songbook contains 49 songs,…
18. February, 2020
The use of the seals of the settlements was regulated by the Act XVIII of 1871 on the settlements governance. When the law was enacted, the sub-prefect offices collected all the old typariums and placed them for preservation in the county archives. On these seals the settlements displayed their old, almost forgotten symbols.
18. February, 2020
The use of the seals of the settlements was regulated by the Act XVIII of 1871 on the settlements governance. When the law was enacted, the sub-prefect offices collected all the old typariums and placed them for preservation in the county archives. On these seals the settlements displayed their old, almost forgotten symbols.
11. February, 2020
Anton Vratuša was born on February 21, 1915 in Dolnje Slaveči. His birth was registered on February 28 in the civil registry office. According to the civil records, he was registered as Antal, his parents were Antal Vratosa, 27, a small landowner, and Anna Bokán, 23. They were both Roman Catholics. They lived in the…
Random selection of built cultural heritage
3. March, 2020
In 1686 the mill was owned by the Batthyány estate, then by Count László Szapáry. In 1911 Mihály Guttmann bought the mill and the sawmill. The latter was let to an entrepreneur named Schwarcz, then taken over by his son, Imre. In 1949 the family was declared “kulaks” and resettled. In 1960 the mill and…
11. February, 2020
The cross of the village is in front of a house in Dolnja Bistrica (next to house no. 38) with the following inscription: "Praised be our Jesus Christ. To commemorate Jesus' suffering, the cross was erected by Ifko Urša in 1887.” The cross was restored in 1989 by the Horvat family.
10. February, 2020
Located on a hill south of Domanjševci, there is a one-nave Romanesque brick church dating from the first half of the 13th century. The Domanjševci church has three specialties; the first is the bell tower built at the same time as the church, the second specialty of the church is the rich Romanesque-style gate on…
3. March, 2020
The base of the cross had a blacksmith's hammer and pliers crossing each other and a text written in the local Slovenian dialect. Probably the work of a local blacksmith. According to the oral tradition, the wife wanted to poison the blacksmith, but he survived. He thanked God by erecting the cross. In 2017, it…
Random selection of intellectual cultural heritage
20. February, 2020
Lajos Kuntár’s monograph about his native village has three parts. The “first book” contains the author's journalistic writings with biographical aspects. The “second book” is nearly 150 pages long. Referring to archival sources, he describes the history of the settlement from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century, describing social and economic…
10. February, 2020
In Gančani, erecting May-pole is part of the rural heritage. Basically, it is a religious folk festivity. In Gančani, erection of May poles dates back to 1919, when the young set them up in honor of Virgin Mary for their lucky return from the First World War. The 18-year-olds gathered on the first Friday of…
3. March, 2020
The log-pulling at the end of the carnival is a fun mock marriage game where the log is dragged – by the “bride” and the “groom” as well as girls and boys dressed as best men and bridesmaids and dressed in costumes – to the center of the village. Slovenian customs in the Rába region…
10. February, 2020
At New Year's Eve, people affixed small pine trees (krispan) to the wells, decorated with colorful ribbons to provide good and fresh water throughout the year. This was the custom in the villages of Goričko too. As the housewife in Felsőszölnök/Gornji Senik put the decorated pine tree on the well of the house, she said:…
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18. August, 2020
Lajos Markovics was a Croatian parish priest, born in Felsőberkifalu in Vas County, a settlement formerly inhabited by Croatians. He was ordained a priest in Szombathely on June 16, 1935. He became a chaplain in Apátistvánfalva, where he served as parish priest until his death, and is buried there. In 1975 he became a titular…
30. April, 2020
15. May, 2020
Ferdo Godina published his first stories in Novine. He was a law student, he collaborated with liberal societies, he was the editor of Mladi Prekmurec, he wrote for different newspapers and he published his prose. In 1941, he joined the Partisans and, from 1944, he was involved in organising the resistance in Prekmurje. After the…
18. August, 2020
Born in Vál, graduated in Zagreb in theology, Frideczky served in the Zagreb diocese until 1849. From March 1848 to August 13, 1849 he was a pastor of the Sándor Infantry Regiment, and until October 1850 he was a pastor of the Graz Military Hospital. Then he came to the Diocese of Szombathely: From 1860…
Random selection of audiovisual material
3. March, 2020
Sojenice (Sojenice) / Fate fairies In the Slovenian Rába Region, fate fairies predict the fate of a child at the birth. Local version of an international motif. (ATU 934)
3. March, 2020
A wedding song that was sung when the bride left her home.
11. February, 2020
They were singing this lullaby when the baby was rocked in a hutch or cradle. A variation of three words (heje, baba, bijja) gives the lyrics of the song. The lullaby was collected in 1972 by Antal Békefi.
3. March, 2020
Stolnjek prestri se (Prtič pogrni se) / Wishing-tablecloth The Rába Region’s Slovenes’ version of the internationally known “Wishing-Table” tale . (ATU 563)