Municipality of KidriÄevo
Kidričevo is a municipality in the Spodnja Štajerska region in Slovenia.
Location and population
In the overall community consisting of 18 villages and hamlets 6721 people live. The main town Kidričevo alone has 1273 inhabitants. The municipality is located southwest of Ptuj in Dravsko polje.
The most important employer in the area is the aluminum plant Talum.
History
The municipality was formerly Strnisce ( German: Sterntal or Sternthal ).
On November 5, 1918 derailed after a hot runner and following a broken axle military train in the station of Sternthal. 63 people died.
After the Second World War, was from May to September 1945 the camp Sterntal ( Strnisce ), which served as a central collection point for the expulsion of ethnic Germans from Lower Styria and the Gottschee and in which several thousand people died of starvation and disease.
The town was renamed in 1945 after the Kidričevo communists and partisans Boris Kidrič.