Bistrica ob Sotli
Bistrica ob Sotli is a municipality and a town in south-eastern Slovenia. It lies in the historical region of Lower Styria to the Croatian border.
Geography
The community shares in the Sottlatal ( Sotelsko ) with its anrainenden wine hills Križan vrh 444 m UEA. , Okic 312 m, Vina gora 327 m and the eastern foothills of the wooded hill country of Dragon Castle ( Kozjanski ) with the elongated ridge of Orlica, Denžičev Breg 588 m, which drops steeply to Feistritzwerke / Bistrica gorge 206 m. Grandeur looks the pilgrimage church on the Holy Mountain / Svete Gore 527 m with its four chapels in the valley of the Sottla and well into the Croatian Zagorje. The running west to east Königsberg / Kunšperk, 597 m, carries on a mountain spur the stone remains of the fortress constructed as a limit already in the Middle Ages castle of the same name.
The Municipality of Bistrica ob Sotli counts 1460 inhabitants, spread over 478 households ( 2002). The municipality covers an area of 31.14 km ² and is bordered on the northwest by the municipality Podčetrtek / Windisch Landsberg, in northern and eastern Croatia to the south by the municipality of Brežice / Rann and in the southwest and west on the community Kozje / dragon castle. The municipality is composed of the following eleven villages. In parentheses are the German names are given from the time before 1918.
- Bistrica ob Sotli (St. Peter in Königsberg )
- Dekmanca ( deckhand village)
- Črešnjevec whether Bistrici ( Kerschdorf )
- Hrastje whether Bistrici ( Hrastje )
- Križan Vrh ( Krischanverh, 1943-1945 Krista Berg)
- Kunšperk (Königsberg )
- Ples ( Plesdorf )
- Polje pri Bistrici (field village)
- Srebrnik ( Silberberg )
- Trebče ( Trebitsch )
- Zagaj ( Sagaj )