Nova Kapela, Brod-Posavina County

Nova Kapela is a small Slavonian administrative centre set between the Sava lowlands and the foothills of Požeška Gora, within the joint visitor area promoted as Meridiana Slavonica. Its focal point is the parish church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, an 18th-century single-nave building with a semicircular sanctuary, rectangular sacristy and a walled enclosure marked by four corner chapels. The church also holds protected furnishings and an organ, while the local cemetery contains the All Saints chapel, built as the mausoleum of Aleksandar Seitz. The nearby Ravnjaš archaeological site adds a much older layer to Nova Kapela’s rural Slavonian character. Elsewhere in the municipality, visitors can seek out the Church of St Luke, dated to 1275, in Srednji Lipovac, hear the protected traditional speech of Siče and explore the restored village setting of Stara Kapela. Nova Kapela is unusually convenient for a settlement of its size because Nova Kapela–Batrina railway station stands in the village itself, on the main rail corridor across Slavonia. Together, its religious monuments, archaeology, Požeška Gora foothill villages and rail access make it a practical base for an unhurried day in western Brod-Posavina County.

Nova Kapela lies where the level Slavonian plain begins to rise towards the southern slopes of Požeška Gora. Its protected church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, together with the listed interior collection and organ, forms a compact heritage ensemble at the centre of the village. The cemetery adds another distinctive monument: the All Saints chapel, built as Aleksandar Seitz’s mausoleum. Across the municipality, the Ravnjaš archaeological site, the early Gothic Church of St Luke in Srednji Lipovac and the protected traditional speech of Siče reveal several different layers of local identity. Membership in the Meridiana Slavonica tourism area links Nova Kapela with Brodski Stupnik and Oriovac through a shared landscape of vineyards, woodland, fishponds and southern Slavonian village heritage.