Mala Pirešica

Ruše (pronounced [ˈɾuːʃɛ]) is a small settlement in the Municipality of Žalec in east-central Slovenia. The A1 motorway runs just north of the village. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region.

Zaloška Gorica (pronounced [ˈzaːlɔʃka ɡɔˈɾiːtsa]) is a settlement in the Municipality of Žalec in east-central Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region.The A1 motorway crosses the territory of the settlement south of the settlement core. When it was being built in 1988, the 17th-century Zalog Mansion (Slovene: Dvorec Zalog), which had fallen into disrepair after the Second World War, was demolished. The site with what remains of a park associated with the estate is included in the Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage.

Pernovo (pronounced [pɛɾˈnɔːʋɔ] or [pɛɾˈnoːʋɔ]) is a settlement in the Municipality of Žalec in east-central Slovenia. It lies in the southwestern part of the Hudinja Hills (Slovene: Hudinjsko gričevje). The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region.The local church is dedicated to Saint Oswald (Slovene: sveti Ožbolt) and belongs to the Parish of Galicija. It is originally a medieval building with major 17th- and 19th-century rebuilding phases.

Arja Vas (pronounced [ˈaɾːja ˈʋaːs]; Slovene: Arja vas, German: Arndorf) is a roadside settlement in the Municipality of Žalec in east-central Slovenia. The A1 motorway crosses the territory of the settlement north of the village. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region.

Velika Pirešica (pronounced [ˈʋeːlika ˈpiːɾɛʃitsa]) is a settlement north of Žalec in east-central Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The entire Municipality of Žalec is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region.

Železno (pronounced [ʒɛˈleːznɔ]) is a small settlement in the Municipality of Žalec in east-central Slovenia. It lies on the southwestern edge of the Hudinja Hills (Slovene: Hudinjsko gričevje) north of Žalec. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region.

Galicija (pronounced [ɡaˈliːtsija]) is a settlement in the Municipality of Žalec in east-central Slovenia. It lies in the Hudinja Hills (Slovene: Hudinjsko gričevje) north of Žalec. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region.The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint James (Slovene: sveti Jakob) and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Celje. It was built between 1772 and 1778 on the site of a 16th-century church.

Ložnica pri Žalcu (pronounced [lɔˈʒniːtsa pɾi ˈʒaːu̯tsu]) is a settlement north of Žalec in east-central Slovenia. The A1 motorway crosses the territory of the settlement north of the village. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The entire Municipality of Žalec is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region.

Petrovče (pronounced [pɛˈtɾoːu̯tʃɛ]) is a village on the left bank of the Savinja River in the Municipality of Žalec in east-central Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region.

Drešinja Vas (pronounced [dɾɛˈʃiːnja ˈʋaːs]; Slovene: Drešinja vas) is a settlement in the Municipality of Žalec in east-central Slovenia. It lies just north of the main regional road from Žalec to Celje. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region.A small roadside chapel-shrine in the settlement dates to the last quarter of the 19th century.

Novo Celje (pronounced [ˈnɔ̀ːʋɔ ˈtsɛ̀ːljɛ, ˈnɔ́ː-]) is a small settlement in the Municipality of Žalec in east-central Slovenia. Its territory is basically the estate of Novo Celje Mansion, a late 18th-century mansion just southeast of Žalec. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region.

Novo Celje (pronounced [ˈnɔ̀ːʋɔ ˈtsɛ̀ːljɛ, ˈnɔ́ː-]; lit. ''New Celje'') is a late Baroque mansion in the settlement of Novo Celje in the Municipality of Žalec west of Celje in the Styria region of Slovenia. The mansion was built between 1752 and 1755 by a local nobleman, Anton Gaisruck, who had bought a decaying late medieval hunting mansion called Brutnberg (known locally as Plumberk) that stood on the same location. He used some elements from the old Celje Castle for its construction, causing further deterioration of this important historical site. In the mid-19th century, the mansion was bought by the Styrian nobleman Joseph Ludwig Hausmann (Slovenized: Jožef Ludvik Hausmann), the father of Fanny Hausmann (1818–1853), who is generally regarded as the first female poet to write in Slovene. He was also notable for introducing the cultivation of hops to Lower Styria, which launched a flourishing brewing industry in the Savinja Valley between Celje, Žalec, and Laško. In the late 1920s, the mansion was bought by the local authorities, and in the 1930s it was transformed into a psychiatric hospital run by the Slovenian regional government. Most of the costly interior decorations were removed from the manor and placed in the National Museum of Slovenia. After the armed forces of Nazi Germany annexed Lower Styria in 1941, the 390 patients of the institution were transported to the Hartheim Euthanasia Centre near Linz, where they were killed. After the Second World War, a memorial plaque was placed near the building to commemorate the incident.