Tourist Atractions

Churches, Chapels, and Monuments

St. Peter’s Church was designated for worship after 1545, when the church of St. Rupert on the castle hill was demolished and the seat was moved to Radkersburg. The church is first mentioned in 1466, and the current building dates from 1813, with only the cross chapel and the church wall of the tower remaining from the previous structure. It was built in Romanesque style and later expanded and renovated at the end of the 19th century. During the war in 1991, the tower was destroyed but rebuilt, and the entire building was restored in 1993. The church façade features a post-Gothic crucifix and three sculptural tombstones from the first half of the 17th century. The interior is richly decorated with frescoes.

The pilgrimage church of the Nativity of Mary is located in the center of Negova, next to the castle. Originally under the nearby Negova Castle, the first Gothic church was built in 1556 by Countess Katarina Trauttmannsdorf. The present church was constructed between 1699 and 1710, as evidenced by the date 1710 on the portal. In 1850, the church of St. Mary was extended with a Cross Chapel using material from the former cemetery wall. The interior was painted in 1927 by Franc Gornik and Alojzij Mauk. The main altar, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, dates from 1712, while the side altars are from the post-Baroque period. All altars were remodeled and equipped with Tyrolean sculptures from 1888. The altar in the chapel dates from the mid-19th century. The organs, built in 1760 in Baroque style with Rococo ornamentation, were supplemented in 1893. The parish house next to the Nativity of Mary Church dates from 1763. In front of the church stands a Baroque statue of Charles Borromeo, and along the path between the church and Negova Castle is a statue of John Nepomuk from the first half of the 18th century.

In our municipality, there are numerous signs, chapels, and monuments. The oldest among them, with a late Gothic character, are the stone monuments in Gornja Radgona and Mele. Besides most of the sacred and some secular monuments, there are also many wooden crosses throughout the parish.

In Črešnjevci, amid grain fields, stands a Neo-Gothic chapel resembling a village church. A larger chapel, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, with an internal prayer space and a Gothic-style bell tower, is located by what was once one of the largest farms in the area. The Chapel of the Holy Family, located on the Zemljič estate, was consecrated in 1901 and has a Gothic bell tower with a tin roof.

In Ivanjševski Vrh, there is a small, square chapel of Mary with three niches on the front sides, and a statue of Mary protected by iron bars. In Ivanjševci by the Ščavnica River, there is a 19th-century chapel of the Holy Family, intended for village worship.

Negova has several chapels erected for processions, such as the Plojeva Chapel found in the direction from Sp. Ivanjc towards the center of Negova. Another chapel is located in the direction from Negova towards the cemetery.

Other chapels can be found in Mele, Lomanoš, Orehovski Vrh, Plitvički Vrh, Police, Sp. Ivanjci, Stavešinci, and Zagajski Vrh.

The late Gothic plague monument at the parking lot in front of the Gornja Radgona Bus Station features a square base with a pronounced upper edge, supporting a sharply tapered column that carries a three-sided open house with a curved, four-sided pyramid roof. The back side is closed with a solid wall, and the roof is supported by two balusters that, unlike the Gothic overall style, are already Renaissance in design. The year 1525, engraved on the column, indicates a transitional stylistic mood. The sculpture of seated Christ is from a later period. This late Gothic stone column plague monument is a high-quality example of 16th-century plague monuments and one of the most beautiful of its type in Slovenia.