Historical documents offer absolutely no information
about the origin or the formation of Ptujska Gora. Today´s church in Ptujska
Gora has no elder predecessor and remains the first such building built on this
site. As a totally new institution it received its German name Neustift,
meaning »New fund« or in Slovene »nova štifta« because it arose with a certain
purpose. According to the archives of the Styrian noble family Stubenberg, pope
Boniface IX had allowed Ulric IV of Walsee to build a church. One of the oldest
observations is from the year 1442. Ptujska ora was heavily damaged by
