Javeršek homestead
The Javeršek homestead (Podsreda 93) is located about half a kilometre from the road connecting Podsreda and Bistrica ob Sotli. It is a secluded farm, which was given the name “v Loki” because of its location.
Lap homestead, as it is known, can be reached on foot from the large car park in Trebče (15 minutes’ walk). The path leads as over a wooden bridge across the Bistrica River, past a lime kiln where lime was once burned, and past “Neža’s house” where half a century ago a dressmaker named Neža used to live.
From here, there is a nice view of the entrance to the gorge of the Bistrica River, which is one of the most beautiful gorges in eastern Slovenia.
Marija Javeršek, the mother of Josip Broz Tito, former Yugoslav President, was born in 1864 at the Javeršek homestead. When the large Broz family living in Kumrovec found themselves in dire need, mother Marija sought help from her parents. Thus, Josip Broz spent a large part of his childhood with his grandparents in Podsreda.
In 1979, the original part of the house was converted into a museum, with a lobby with a smoke kitchen, a “salon” and a “chamber” or “štiblc”. The rooms are furnished with original furniture from Tito’s youth and represent the living culture of a mid-19th-century farmhouse.
The museum was opened in 1979 by Josip Broz Tito on his last official visit to Slovenia.
Location
Explore other cultural attractions in Kozjansko Regional Park:
The medieval Podsreda market town developed under the eponymous Podsreda Castle and is situated on the right bank of the Bistrica River, along the regional road connecting Kozje and Bistrica ob Sotli. With its position, it belongs to the few areas with an extraordinary cultural landscape.
The Stations of the Cross from Podsreda lead to the Church of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows on Stare gore above Podsreda, or the “Nearby Mountains” as they are popularly called.
The Javeršek homestead (Podsreda 93) is located about half a kilometre from the road connecting Podsreda and Bistrica ob Sotli. It is a secluded farm, which was given the name “v Loki” because of its location.
Kolar’s homestead is located in Trebče, next to a pond by the Podsreda–Bistrica ob Sotli road.
Svete gore is an ancient cult and pilgrimage centre on the hill of the same name above Bistrica ob Sotli (Zagaj).
At the top of the hill, at an altitude of 527m, there are five religious buildings.
On the right bank of the Bistrica River, just off the main Podsreda–Kozje road, is one of the few remaining working mills from the mid-19th century. The Kukovičič mill (Podsreda 3a), today restored, is an ethnological cultural monument.
Kozje is one of our oldest market towns, and the region in the central part of which it is located is named after it.
Pilštanj, situated on a low ridge above the village of Lesično, has one of the most picturesque views over the Bistrica valley and is today a cultural monument.