The village was first attested in written sources in 1335 as Vraunhaym (and as Frawnhain in 1397, Fraunhain in 1402, and Frauenhaim in 1461). The Slovene name is a contraction of *Fraham, derived from Frauenheim, the name of the noble family that owned the castle there.[3]
Mass grave
Fram is the site of a mass grave associated with the Second World War. The Fram Mass Grave (Slovene: Grobišče Fram) is located in a wooded hilly area about 600 meters (2,000 ft) northwest of the village. The grave contains the remains of a small group of local civilians.[4]
Church
The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Anne and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor. It was built in 1875 in a Neo-Romanesque style on the site of a chapel belonging to a 13th-century castle that stood to the west of the settlement. The castle was destroyed in a fire in the late 18th century and only ruins are visible today.[5]
^Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 135.
^Ferenc, Mitja (December 2009). "Grobišče Fram". Geopedia (in Slovenian). Ljubljana: Služba za vojna grobišča, Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve. Retrieved October 17, 2023.
