BoreÄa
Boreca (Hungarian Borháza ) is a village in the municipality of Gornji Petrovci in Slovenia. The village is located about 7 km north-west of the community center at the origin of Merak creek.
Geography
The village has about 110 inhabitants and lies scattered on a sunny mountain ridge above the Merak creek. The individual groups of houses bear the field names Šporini, Fickini, Pekini, Spodnji kraj, Srednji kraj and Zgornji kraj. The place is very lonely and is surrounded by large pine forests. The place name is derived Boreca all appearances of the jaw (Slovenian boron = jaw).
History
The place is first mentioned in records in 1387 with Burecha also Bureche. He belonged to the rule Dobra, today Neuhaus am Klausbach in southern Burgenland. With the acquisition of this rule in that year the Hungarian magnate family Széchy rounded their possessions in the region from, because even in 1365 they were masters of the castle and dominion Felsölendva (now level ) become. 1499 is the place in a document designated Borecha. In a protocol of the Diocese of Gyor / Raab for the year 1698 held that the village " Boracsa " of the Catholic parish of the Holy Trinity in Petrocz ( Gornji Petrovci ) is assigned.
In 1890, the village is officially designated Borháza and had 273 inhabitants, of whom 270 declared themselves as Slovenes and 3 as German. The place was in the district Muraszombat, today Murska Sobota, in the county of Vas / Vas.
The Treaty of Trianon hit the village on 4 June 1920 to the Kingdom of SHS. For the city is now officially called Boreca following data were recorded in the census on January 31, 1921 determined: 303 Slovenes, of these 303 residents known to 179 and 124 to the Catholic to the Protestant faith.
In the census of 1931 265 inhabitants were calculated, in 1961 there were 225 and for 1971 the following figures are available: 207 inhabitants, 49 houses, 47 households and 193 villagers who live exclusively by agriculture.
The Church of Saint Anna
Southeast of the village, about 20 minutes walk away, stands on a hill, 395 m UEA, in the middle of a secluded forest glade, the filial church of St. Anna. Right next to the church is spreading the cemetery for the villages Šulinci, Boreca and Ženavlje. Every year on July 26, the feast of St.. Anna, a big church day takes place here, where numerous visitors from near and far come together.
This simple structure consists of a rectangular nave and a slightly lower and narrower, polygonal end presbytery, which is supported at the outer corners of six buttresses. The main entrance on the west side, the pointed arch windows and the side entrance on the south side and the apse separated from the ship triumphal arch, witness the original Gothic style of the building. Quite unusual is the wooden, shingled bell tower, which is worn on the west side of the building from the roof of the nave.
In all probability, the church building was built in the second decade of the 16th century and completed in 1521. This year is also engraved above the lying on the west side of the main portal. The builder and former landowners of the area, Thomas Széchy fell five years later at the Battle of Mohacs.
On the occasion of a church visitation by the diocese Raab / Györ in 1627 the church is St. Anna called as a branch of the parish church of Holy Trinity in Gornji Petrovci. In a further inspection in 1698 it is mentioned that the building was set on fire at a Turkish expedition and badly damaged.
At the request of Oberlimbacher rule owner Count Leopold Nádasdy and with the approval of the then Bishop of Raab / Gyor Adolf resentment, the sacred building was extensively renovated subjected in 1739. Here, the interior was given a contemporary taste corresponding baroque styled look.
In 1911, again resulted in a thorough restoration of the building where the church at that time also received a new altar. In 2000 extensive repairs were carried out again, doing it to return to the building several details of its original late Gothic character succeeded.
Personalities
- Ficzko József (1772-1843), Catholic priest and the Burgenland-Croatian writer.