The homestead Oficirjevo is located in the municipality of Šentjur. It consists of six buildings, the oldest part of which is thought to be a house and a stable. Through a dendrochronological analysis and an examination of some written sources, we wanted to see if this hypothesis was correct. The written sources included status animarum, land registers, the Josephinian and Franciscan Land Surveys. A few of those sources were obtained through various institutions, others were accessed online. We started systematically, looking mainly for links with the same first and last names, house numbers and plot numbers. Dendrochronological analysis consisted of identifying the samples, then measuring the width of the annual tree-rings, and with that we tried to construct chronologies. We were most successful with oak samples but were unable to obtain chronologies for the alder and chestnut trees due to inappropriate samples and lack of reference chronologies. The majority of samples were spruce, of which most could not be dated given the same reason. Almost all dated samples were placed at the beginning of the 20th century, except for one, whose last annual tree-ring dated in the year 1834. Based on both methods - the Franciscan cadastre, the land register and the oak sample dated in 1834 - it can be said that the homestead already existed at the beginning of the 19th century.
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