Church St. Benedikt

The first predecessor of the present Church of St. Benedikt is among the oldest in the Slovenske gorice region. In the mid-11th century, the old church building was replaced with a larger stone structure, which today forms the central nave. The building was constructed in the Romanesque style, and in the 12th century, a Gothic-style tower was added. The Church of St. Benedikt is today a three-nave structure, entirely vaulted, the result of gradual extensions. A late Gothic presbytery was added to the Romanesque nave in the 16th century, while the side aisles were built in the second half of the 19th century.

The church furnishings include the pulpit, five altars, and other elements, most of which are in the Neo-Gothic style. A particular feature is the side altar, dating from the Late Baroque period. Next to the church stands the Baroque rectory, which houses a valuable collection of portraits of some Benedict parish priests from the 18th and 19th centuries. The church tower acquired its present appearance in 1885. In the parish chronicle, parish priest Zmazek reported on the church bells at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. The church had always had three bells, but during the First World War the authorities confiscated them for the first time. In 1924, three bells rang again in the church tower, but two of them were seized by the occupying authorities as early as 1943. At the end of the 1960s, the parish church once more received two additional bells. Finally, on 18 November 2018, the church was endowed with three completely new bells.