Velika Nedelja – St. Trinity Castle and Church

According to the legend, the place was named after the battle, which was supposed to take place on the Easter Sunday just before 1200, in which Friderik II, with the help of the German knights’ order, won from the Hungarians the then uninhabited territory and gave it to the knights’ order in appreciation of their help in the battle.

The symbols of its former validity is the parish church of St. Trinity, built shortly after 1200 (the Romanesque apsis houses the oldest baptistery in Slovenia from around 1235) and the castle - an old commendam of the Teutonic order, which was first mentioned in 1273, but is likely to had been created shortly after 1200.

On the castle's premises there is an ethnological collection on display, where through the exhibited objects one learns about the richness of the ethnological tradition in the Ormož area. The castle also has a magnificent castle chapel and the permanent historical exhibition Velika Nedelja through the centuries.