CENTER ZA SLUH IN GOVOR MARIBOR SLOVENIJA

CENTRE FOR HEARING AND SPEECHMARIBORSLOVENIA

The Centre for hearing and speech Maribor was founded in June 1962 as a special department for hearing and speech rehabilitation within the Maribor Health Centre. It included two surdopedagogical clinics where deaf, hard of hearing and speech impaired received the treatment. In 1965 the first pre-school unit was established and the school gradually developed into a complete school for deaf and hard of hearing children.

The activity of the Centre is performed within three units:- Kindergarten- Primary school- Audiologopedic clinicsThe Kindergarten and Primary school units provide treatments for deaf,hard of hearing and speech impaired children,psychological and social service, individual speech and verbal therapy and mobile surdopedagogical service for children attending regular education.

Bojan VUK Jožek TKALEC

Smiljan TROJNER

PUPILS IN THE PROJECT

Peter JELEN

MARIBOR - A TOWN WITH HISTORY

MARIBOR BEFORE AND NOW

So as to protect Carinthia from Hungarian attaccks in 9th and 10th centuries the Carinthian Duke Bernhard Spanheim ordered a fort to be built on Piramida (a hill above Maribor) in order to close off the entrance in to the Drava valley and further in to Carinthia.The fort or castle was called “Castle in Mark”- “Burg in der Mark” was first mentioned in a document dated 1164. Already in the 13th century the village under the castle had become a market (1209) and in 1254 it was first mentioned as a town. In the 14th century the town got a town-wall with today’s Judgement Tower.Only by the 16th century with the building of two new fortifications on the river drava – the Water Tower and the former Maribor Venice – did the southern part of town get a fortification.Only by the 19th century did the town experience speedy development. At the beginning of the 19th century Maribor was a typical provincial town that still locked the old medieval centre at night.Maribor was the first town in Slovenia to get a railway link. The first train ran through the town in 1846.At the beginning of the 20th century maribor was a real industrial town. The First World War and mainly its end brought Maribor one of the most turbulant events in its history. On 1st November 1918 the later General Rudolf Maister and his soldiers occupied the town which the Maribor Germans planned to join to the newly founded Republic of Austria. With that move Maister achieved in keeping Maribor a Slovene town.

MAIN SQUAREThe Main Square (Glavni trg) is mentioned in documents as a market area already by 1315.Some important historical buildings stand here. The most important one being the City Hall –Rotovž which was built in 1515, the St.Mary’s or Plague Memorial. During the two World Wars the Central Bus Station was located here.

Even today The Main Square has preserved all the historical monuments that have originated over the centuries. The main bus station is gone. Along the sidewalk there is a street that connects the west and east part of the town.

RAILWAY STATION AND PARTIZANSKA STREETMaribor railway station was officialy opened on 2nd June 1864. Already on the 27th April 1846 the first locomotive, called “Ocean”, passed through Maribor. Partizanska street led to the new railway station and after the completion of Maribor’s new station it became one of the most beautiful streets leading into the town.

The old buildings from the railway station have been replaced by new ones, Partizanska street is one of the busiest streets in town. Most of the old houses are preserved, among them we can find some modern ones.

CASTLE SQAREThe main building in Castle Square is Maribor’stown castle. It was built by Emperor Friderich III between 1478 and 1483 in order to fortify the northeastern part of the town wall.Since 1938 the castle has housed the Regional Museum of Maribor.

The square has not changed much since its beginnings. Around the Monument to St. Florian children are playing while their parents are having coffee at one of the square’s confectionery.

MARIBOR ISLANDThe public baths on Maribor were built in 1930. In the period prior to the Second World War this bathing establishment was regarded as one of the most beautiful in Central Europe.It had three pools and a 10 metre high diving board, showers, a sun bathing area, cabins, communal dressing- rooms, cupboards for clothing, a restaurant, a promenade,etc.

Even today the Maribor island is a popular public spa which invites more with its beautiful nature than with its tidiness. The diving board is gone, the other objects are almost unchanged since its beginings due to the lack of funds in the town’s budget.

TOWN PARKIn 1872, on the former estate of Duke Brandis, the old town park was arranged. In the 1880s the park was extended and in it were erected statues of Emperor Joseph II and Archduke Janez. In 1890 a music pavillion was built and only in 1896 was the park actually finished.

The park has obtained its beauty and many ancient trees till today. The music pavilion in the south part often hosts Sunday concerts. The statue of Emperor Joseph II has been replaced by a broze statue of our academic sculptor Gabrijela Kolbiča.In the Aquarium we can admire a lot of see and land species.

NEW STATE BRIDGEAt the beginning of the 20th century the town council and the goverment decided that a new, modern bridge over the river Drava was needed due to the growth of the town.The bridge was built in 1913 and was considered to be one of the most beautiful Bridges in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Today the small bridge on the right side is gone and you can see only the stone foundation. Later on many other bridges were built over the river Drava and that is why this bridge is called ‘’the old bridge’’.

THE OLD VINEThe over 400 years old vine, cosidered the oldest in the world, is probably the most celebrated site of the city.

The vine still bears fruit, while at the same time reminding the city of its past, which was much linked to wine production and exports until the very end of the XIX century.

SLOMŠEK SQUARESlomšek square got the look it has todaj during regulations made in 1891.A park called the Emperor Franc Joseph Plantation was created on the site where the vicarage garden had previouly stood.

The square is surrounded by beautiful old buildings where we can find the Slovene Post, Sloveve national theatre and the Theologian faculty. The restored building in the west part of the square is the University administrative building.

MILITARY CADET SCHOOLThe beautiful building of the onetime King’s imperial school for cadets was built 1852-1853 for the Imperial Military Academy Institute. It was built on the southern edge of town. The purpose of the school was to prepare cadets for the military academy. A new, wide avenue named after Emperor Franz Joseph led to the school (today’s Gorkega street.)

Today the once georgeous building is completely abandoned. The mighty promenade is gone, it has been replaced by football and tennis courts, a covered skating rink and a multipurpose sports hall.

The most important buildings in Maribor that give our town the historical and cultural significance and constitute it as the metropolis of the slovene styria province

CATERALThe Catel of Maribor designed by Janez Krsnik, was built in the 13th Century, the presbytery in the 14th Century, the church tower in 1623 and both baroque capels in 1715. The cathedral became the Cathedral of the diocese of Lavantska in 1859. At the beginning of the XX. Century the church was redone in the Gothic style.

FRANCISCAN CHURCHThe Franciscan church was built at the end of the 19th century near the the old much smaller church.The neo-Roman basilica was finished in 1904.

JUDICIAL TOWERThe south-western part of the city once ended with a rotund defensive tower, today called the Judicial Tower. It was erected in 1310. In spite of its name, it was used primarily for defence purposes, while serving later as a warehouse and even as a production plant.Today we use it for cultural events.

WATER TOWERThe mighty fortification, called today the Water Toer (Vodni stolp), was built in the XVI century because of fear due the endless Turkish peril.

THE RUDOLF MAISTER MONUMENTGeneral Rudolf Maister and his soldiers occupied the town, which the Maribor Germans planned to join to the newly founded Republic of Austria. With that move Maister achieved in keeping Maribor a Slovene town.

THE SYNAGOGUEThe Synagogue in Židovska street dates from the end of the 14th Century . In 1501 it became a church and in 1785 a warehouse, which it remains.Today we use it for cultural events.

THE CITY HALLThe City Hall (Rotovž) was built in 1515. It acquired its present Renaissance appearance from the Italiancivil engineering masters work between 1563 and 1565.The main hall is used today for performing wedding ceremonies.

MARY’S - PLAGUE MONUMENTMary’s or the Plague Monument (Kužno znamenje) was erected in 1743, in front of Rotovž, on the lokation of an older one from 1681, which was built as a sign of gratitude by the Maribor cizenry marking the cessation of the plague in Maribor (about a fifth of Maribor inhabitants died of it between 1680 and 1681). It was costructed ba Jožef Štraub.