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To the unknown soldiers

by | Jan 1, 2010 | ascePobrezjeEN

After The Pobrežje Cemetery was open in August 1st 1879 mostly soldiers were buried here, besides the convicts and poor people. At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 the Pobrežje cemetery became the central military cemetery in Maribor. The units of...

Czeikes arcades

by | Jan 1, 2010 | ascePobrezjeEN

The Franciscan Cemetery in Pobrežje is the youngest cemetery in Maribor. The Franciscans came to Maribor in 1864 on the invitation of Bishop Anton Martin Slomšek and they took over the church of St. Mary Mother of Mercy as well as s Slovene perish in a former suburb...

The tomb of the Soviet prisoners

by | Jan 1, 2010 | ascePobrezjeEN

In 1941 and 1942 in autumn 1941 the Germans changed the former customs warehouse in Melje into the prison-camp for the soldiers from the Soviet Union. During the winter 1994/42 around 2800 prisoners died there because of terrible sanitary conditions and brutal...

Peace Monument

by | Jan 1, 2010 | ascePobrezjeEN

During the Second World War, there were around 3000 soldiers and civilians from 27 countries buried in the Pobrežje Cemetery. Between 1941 and 1942, 1895 Soviet soldiers, who died due to inhuman treatment and horrible hygiene conditions in the prisoner camp in Melje,...

Partisan tomb

by | Jan 1, 2010 | ascePobrezjeEN

In National Liberation War during the Second World War (1941 – 1945) a lot of partisans lost their lives around Maribor in struggles with occupants. 139 partisans were buried in this group tomb on the Pobrežje cemetery after the war. Four of them are still unknown,...

Fallen soldiers 1914 -1918

by | Jan 1, 2010 | ascePobrezjeEN

During the First World War (1914 – 1918), around thousand Austro-Hungarian soldiers, who fell in Maribor, were buried in Pobrežje cemetery. In the beginning of the 30s of the 20th century, the soldiers‘ graves were digged up and 970 remains of the soldiers (928...