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]
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]
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]
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]