Even though Katzenstein Castle and its noble lineage have already received ample attention from Slovenian historiographers and castellologists, no article has so far provided a comprehensive explanation of how, after long serving as part of their clientele, the Katzenstein family turned away from the Counts of Cilli in the early fifteenth century and became vassals of the Habsburg dukes. By drawing on a systematic overview of archival records as well as several hitherto unexamined sources, the life of the last generations of the Katzenstein family, which joined the ranks of the Habsburg vassals, can now be reconstructed in more detail. Their final break with the Cillis was caused by the unsettled debt that Count Frederick II collected by force, most probably in the spring or early summer of 1442. The destruction of Katzenstein Castle also sealed the fate of its last, completely impoverished owners.

The article discusses Jakob Aljaž’s efforts between 1925 and 1926 to obtain a substantial increase in his congrua and an honorary pension proposed by the local authorities in Radovljica in 1926. It identifies the main factors underlying his acute financial insecurity: pasture dues were difficult to collect; the forests of the Dovje benefice, constrained by legal restrictions and a reforestation order, produced no income; and a long-standing dispute with Bishop Anton Bonaventura Jeglič over the allocation of timber-sale proceeds remained unresolved and unfavourable to Aljaž. More broadly, Aljaž’s financially ambitious public initiatives exceeded his means, leaving him with minimum savings and inadequate provision for old age. On the state side, limited recognition of his public service and prevailing administrative–political considerations created a paradox: even though his congrua was modestly increased in September 1925 and the Minister of Finance expressed support for further assistance, the Ministry of Religious Affairs ultimately rejected this gesture of goodwill, while the proposal for an honorary pension received no substantive discussion.

The article analyses the probate inventory of Ulrich Pitton, a burgher of Kranj (Ger. Krainburg) and senior mining magistrate in Carniola and Gorizia between 1616 and 1634. In its opening segment, the article presents an account of his life story to the extent that can be determined from scanty written sources. The second part presents and examines his material legacy, which was inventoried less than a month after his death in 1635. The probate inventory and other sources paint Pitton as a relatively well-off burgher, merchant, and landowner.

The article opens with an outline of the criteria applied in the early collecting of historic furniture at the Maribor Regional Museum and its predecessor institutions. This is followed by information on the makers of eight pieces of furniture from the museum’s collection, presented chronologically according to their years of birth. The study is limited to craftsmen who established their workshops up to the year 1900: Wiesauer, Lacher, Ballin, Quittner, Blaschitz, Potočnik, Stojan and Rath. Alongside each maker, the selected piece of furniture is discussed in greater detail, and other works by these makers held in the Maribor furniture collection are also identified. The article brings together findings derived from primary written and material sources and records known commissioners, owners, or users of this furniture from Vuhred, Fala, Viltuš and Maribor.

An investigation into toponymy that has survived in Ljubljana from the time when it was still a walled urban settlement (until the end of the eighteenth century) or from the period before the mid-nineteenth century, when it rapidly entered the industrial era, sheds light on major differences in the continuity and preservation of old names between the Slovenian capital on one hand and the historical centres of other European capitals and urban settlements on the other. The primary aim of the article is to determine how many early toponyms have been preserved in Ljubljana and what fate befell street names that had disappeared. The article is divided into two parts. The first part discusses the overall characteristics of Ljubljana’s urban toponymy (names of streets, roads, and squares)—i.e., its content and the processes of change—and the second part is conceived as a stroll through the old town core, presenting the reader with individual toponymic and micro-toponymic examples and, through them, with the dynamics of change and transformation. Many instances of renaming occurred for ideological reasons after the Second World War, reaching their highest intensity in 1952. Barring a few exceptions, the former names have never been reinstated after the end of the communist period.

In 2024, archaeological excavations, carried out in the area envisaged for the construction of the Emonika residential complex in Ljubljana, revealed the previously unresearched segment of the northern burial grounds of the Roman colony of Emona (Colonia Iulia Emona). In one of the graves, an oil lamp was unearthed, bearing the depiction of a murmillo-type gladiator (also mirmillo or myrmillo) and an inscription field in the shape of a tabula ansata, featuring a letter B. The article aims to examine the significance and context of this extraordinary find.

The article presents the process of Germanizing Slovenian toponyms or place names in Upper Carniola under the German occupation between 1941 and 1945. In undertaking this task, the occupation authorities largely relied on German place names from the time of Austria–Hungary and in some areas by introducing entirely new German designations. This usually occurred in cases where the former German designation was derived from the Slovenian original and too difficult to pronounce for German speakers, or it bore an excessively Catholic connotation. In major Upper Carniolan towns, where the system of street addresses had already been in place, the practice of (re)naming streets and squares reflected not only the tendency to Germanize but also to reinforce the political hegemony of the German National Socialist Party (NSDAP) by introducing designations after famous German historical and cultural figures as well the leaders of the German National Socialist movement.

The article presents the first thirty years of life of Lenart Budina, who was born in or near Carniola’s capital in 1500 and died there in 1573. Budina is best known as the first rector of the Protestant-run Estates School in Ljubljana. Primary focus is on questions concerning Budina’s birth, the identity of his parents, his studies in Leipzig and Freiburg im Breisgau, employment at the printworks of Johann Froben in Basel, his teaching position in the nearby Rheinfelden, as well as his contacts with Erasmus of Rotterdam, Heinrich Glarean, and other humanists. Attention is drawn to Budina’s possible connection to the court of Ferdinand I and the circles surrounding the Papal curia in the years prior to his return to Ljubljana about 1533. The author also specifically addresses the issue of how much importance Budina ascribed to learning Greek, the basics of which he could pass on to his students after returning to his native town as a “Latin teacher.”

This article examines ‘everyday’ interpersonal disputes that escalated into violence, documented in the market town council registers of Lenart v Slovenskih Goricah between 1640 and 1740, with particular emphasis on the role that women played in enmities in a small urban settlement. The analysis has proven vital not only for understanding ‘female’ enmities, but also for gaining a more nuanced insight into the societal dynamics and gender roles of the period. The role of women in disputes and their settlements was typically distinct from that of men; while often relegated to the background in the sources, it was far from insignificant. The article thus also challenges the perception that the use of violence was an exclusively male domain.

Until now, the Marian column in Ljutomer has received no methodical consideration. The author of the article examines it by drawing on available archival sources and a more thorough stylistic analysis. The market town judge (Marktrichter) Matija Petek, who commissioned the column, as well as the year of its commissioning (1729) and restoration (1854), respectively, are stated on the monument’s inscription plaque. Johann Jacob Schoy was most probably the master craftsman selected for creating the stone figures. Only a few elements have been preserved from the original Baroque monument after the architecture of the Marian column was completely transformed in the mid-nineteenth century. The transformation, minutely documented in archival sources, was carried out by two master craftsmen from Radkersburg (Radgona): the stone carver Anton Spranger and the painter and guilder Johann Klein. The article complements the existing knowledge regarding the processes of commissioning and restoring public Baroque monuments.