Polje pri Bistrici
Polje pri Bistrici ( German: Field Village ) is a place and a part of the municipality of Bistrica ob Sotli in Slovenia. It lies in the historical region of Lower Styria to the Croatian border.
Geography
The village district occupies the northeastern area of the municipality and is situated in the plain between the river Bistrica / Feistritzwerke and Sotla. The urban area covers an area of 191 hectares, bordering the municipality of parts Kunšperk, Bistrica ob Sotli, Hrastje whether Bistrici in the south and Ples in the West. In the north of the village hall touches the Sotla, which marks the Slovenian- Croatian border here. A small, international border crossing connects Polje pri Bistrici with his Croatian neighboring Kumrovec.
The houses and farm buildings of the settlement are somewhat scattered along the road and on the eastern railway crossing the Croatian railway line Kumrovec - Sutla that leads partially territory of Slovenia. The town is located 179 m above the Adriatic Sea and has 88 inhabitants ( 2002).
History
The village is first mentioned in 1480 as " Feldeldorf ". In the land register of the reign of King Mountain of 1566, the settlement is referred to as " Veldorff " while also seven taxable subjects are mentioned, including the Suppan Leonhard ( slo. Župan = mayor ), Paule Putzko, Mathia Vellepitsch and Jacob Dobrina.
In the Josephine land survey (1784-1787), the settlement is described: "Fields Dorff ... standeth in ( the ) Bach Szotla, lies in the plane ... does not have the Grove ... Weeg is only 4 Schuch wide ... the surrounding meadows ( are ) sümpfig bies to drocken summer time ... ".
Even Carl dirt leads 1822 place in his " Encyclopedia of Styria " to: " Felldorf, bey St. Peter, windisch Polle, Cillier - circle on Feistritzwerke Bache, village in the district Wisell, parish of St. Peter bey Königsberg, to rule Wisell subservient. 19 houses, residential parties 23, 119 indigenous population, of which 59 female souls, live stock horses 5 cows 11 ".
In the "Dictionary of Styria " by Josef Andreas Janisch ( 1878 ) the site also found admission: Field Village, slo. Polje, a village of the cadastral municipality of Königsberg, the local church of St. Peter, judicial district of Dragon Castle, with 18 houses and 109 souls (54 ml, 55 wbl. ), according to the parish of St. Peter at Königsberg and enrolled in school. Is hard to Sottla at the Croatian border.
In the census in 1880, the settlement field village from the hamlet consisted Feistritzwerke ( slo.: Bistrica ) with 8 houses, 35 male, 26 female. Inhabitants and the village of village field ( slo.: Polje ) with 9 houses, 30 male, 38 female. Population, together 129 inhabitants, all known to the Catholic religion and 121 gave Slovene as a vernacular. Local residents with German colloquial language were then not counted.
In 1931, the village belonged Polje with its 119 residents of the municipality Sveti Petar pod Svetimi gorami (St. Peter on the Holy Mountain ) and was in Draubanat / Drava banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
After the " smashing" of the Yugoslav state by the Axis Powers in April 1941 the Greater German Reich and the occupied under Styrian area. Immediately began the " rebuilding " of management and business. For the place Polje with his Slovenian population had this reorganization means that almost the entire population in November 1941 in the camp of people Mittelstelle ( VoMi ) was deported to Germany. In the vacated houses and farms German people were resettled from the Gottschee.