Municipality of Ljutomer

Ljutomer ( German Luttenberg in Styria) is a municipality in the northeastern part of Slovenia, near the Croatian border. It lies about 40 km east of Maribor ( Marburg an der Drau ) and has about 11,700 inhabitants. The town has about 3,670 inhabitants Ljutomer today.

History

Ljutomer was first mentioned in 1211 as Luetenwerde and the fortification until 1249 as Luetenberch. 1265 got Ljutomer market rights. The place was several times ravaged by the plague and the attacks of the Crusaders and the Ottomans. On 9 August 1868, the first public meeting of the Slovenes was in Ljutomer where it was spoken publicly for the first time that the Slovene-speaking population desire a state of their own.

Until 1918 Ljutomer was bilingual, in 1880 there were, according to a census 468 German and 608 Slovenian language; the German -speaking population was expelled by force after the 2nd World War.

Ljutomer is called by the now still based Slovene-speaking population Lotmerk. In the municipality of Ljutomer a Slovenian dialect is spoken, who calls himself " Prleško narečje ". The municipality belongs to the area Ljutomer Prlekija, part of Pomurje. The city Ljutomer is regarded by the people as the capital of the region Prlekija.

Personalities from the community Ljutomer

Franz Miklosich, born November 20, 1813 in Pichelsberg at Luttenberg, Styria (today Radomerščak pri Ljutomeru, Slovenia), died in Vienna, on March 7, 1891 linguist and liberal politician, founder of the modern Slavic

Karel Grossmann, a groundbreaking Slovenian filmmaker. He was born on 27 October 1864 in Drakovci near Mala Nedelja. He died in Ljutomer on August 3, 1929 He was a lawyer in Ljutomer. He was the first Slovenian amateur filmmaker. In 1904 he made the first Slovenian film sequence in Ljutomer, the heart of Prlekija. All three films ( " Mass in Ljutomer ", "The End and the exit of the Mass " and " The Garden House " ), you can view at the Museum of Ljutomer.

Fritz Lang ( Director: Metropolis ) spent the period from June to December 1915 for training as a reserve officer in Ljutomer. Because of his military rank, he lived privately in the house of the lawyer Dr. Karl Grossmann (see above), a typical intellectuals of his time. Lang worked at this time, inspired by local, traditional pottery, and terracotta. Two of his ( self-portrait -? ) Busts and two garden vases (some signed and dated ) are preserved by the family Grossmann. It is likely to be Lang's only surviving works of fine art. Later film ideas and features motifs Lang can be traced back to suggestions by the library and the collections Grossmanns as well as on the architecture and archeology of the city Ljutomer and its surroundings.

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