Fram, Rače–Fram Explained

Official Name:Fram
Other Name:Frauheim
Pushpin Map:Slovenia
Pushpin Label Position:left
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Slovenia
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Slovenia
Subdivision Type1:Traditional region
Subdivision Name1:Styria
Subdivision Type2:Statistical region
Subdivision Name2:Drava
Subdivision Type3:Municipality
Subdivision Name3:Rače–Fram
Area Total Km2:5.47
Population As Of:2002
Population Total:791
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Coordinates:46.4563°N 15.6294°W
Elevation M:321
Footnotes:[1]

Fram (in Slovenian pronounced as /ˈfɾaːm/) is a village in the Municipality of Rače–Fram in northeastern Slovenia. It lies in the eastern foothills of the Pohorje range south of Maribor. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Drava Statistical Region.[2]

Name

The village was first attested in written sources in 1335 as Vraunhaym (and as Frawnhain in 1397, Fraunhain in 1402, and Frauenhaim in 1461). The Slovene name is a contraction of *Fraham, derived from Frauenheim, the name of the noble family that owned the castle there.[3]

Mass grave

Fram is the site of a mass grave associated with the Second World War. The Fram Mass Grave (Slovenian: Grobišče Fram) is located in a wooded hilly area about 600m (2,000feet) northwest of the village. The grave contains the remains of a small group of local civilians.[4]

Church

The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Anne and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor. It was built in 1875 in a Neo-Romanesque style on the site of a chapel belonging to a 13th-century castle that stood to the west of the settlement. The castle was destroyed in a fire in the late 18th century and only ruins are visible today.[5]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia . 2010-11-10 . 2008-11-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081118142042/http://www.stat.si/eng/index.asp . dead .
  2. http://www.race-fram.si/ Rače–Fram municipal site
  3. Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 135.
  4. Web site: Ferenc . Mitja . Grobišče Fram . Geopedia . Služba za vojna grobišča, Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve . October 17, 2023 . Ljubljana . sl . December 2009.
  5. http://rkd.situla.org/ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage