Ajbelj

Ajbelj

Ajbelj
Ajbelj

Location in Slovenia

Coordinates: 45°31′56.51″N 14°51′17.7″E / 45.5323639°N 14.854917°E / 45.5323639; 14.854917Coordinates: 45°31′56.51″N 14°51′17.7″E / 45.5323639°N 14.854917°E / 45.5323639; 14.854917
Country Slovenia
Traditional region Lower Carniola
Statistical region Southeast Slovenia
Municipality Kostel
Area
  Total 1.99 km2 (0.77 sq mi)
Elevation 618.4 m (2,028.9 ft)
Population (2002)
  Total 6
[1]

Ajbelj (pronounced [ˈaːi̯bəl]; in older sources also Ajbel;[2] German: Aibel,[2][3] also Eibel[4] or Eibl[5]) is a settlement in the Municipality of Kostel in southern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.[6] It is a linear village standing on a hill above Kaptol. To the southeast is a karst polje with sinkholes where there are tilled fields, hay fields, and wooded land. There are large numbers of wild boar, bears, deer, foxes, and badgers in the area.[7]

Name

The village of Ajbelj is recorded in old records as Alble and is locally known as Vajblen (with prothetic v-). The name is believed to derive from the personal name *Albelj, borrowed from German as a hypocorism of the name Albrecht. The change of the name from Alb- to Ajb- was a dissimilation process (l – ľ > j – ľ) with parallels elsewhere in Slovene.[8] However, Heinz Dieter Pohl derives the identical German oronym Aibel, Eibel from German Alpe 'mountain pasture' via the diminutive forms Älpl, Alpl, Älpele with Middle Bavarian dialect voicing of p and vocalization of l—that is, [áibl].[9]

History

Ajbelj was settled in part by Gottschee Germans.[10] Under feudalism, Ajbelj was part of the Dominion of Kostel. The land registry of 1570 records that the settlement consisted of four full farms. In the past, the economy of Ajbelj was partially tied to peddling goods. In mid-April 1945, Chetnik forces took up positions in the village. They engaged Partisan forces for several days, during which half of the houses in the village were destroyed, before withdrawing north towards Kočevska Reka. The Ajbelj volunteer fire department became a founding unit of the Kočevje municipal fire department on 28 August 1955.[11] In the 1970s the village still relied on cisterns for its water supply and there were three wooden houses with thatched roofs.[7]

Cultural heritage

Registered religious heritage items in Ajbelj include Divine Savior Church, a chapel shrine, and the village cemetery.

Divine Savior Church in 2012

Ajbelj also has two residences registered as cultural heritage.

References

  1. Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. 1 2 Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 34.
  3. Statistische Zentralkommission. 1919. Spezialortsrepertorium von Krain: Bearbeitet auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Volkszählung vom 31. Dezember 1910. Vienna: Verlag der K. K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, p. 9.
  4. Jahrbuch der kaiserlich-königlichen Geologischen Bundesanstalt. 1859. Vienna: Braumüller, p. 49.
  5. Deschman, Carl. 1866. "Zusammenstellung der bisher in Krain gemachten Höhenmessungen." Mittheilungen des Musealvereins für Krain 1: 1–76, p. 53.
  6. Kostel municipal site
  7. 1 2 Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, p. 216.
  8. Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, pp. 43–44.
  9. Pohl, Heinz Dieter. 2004. "Südbairische Bergnamen aus Kärnten und Osttirol (Österreich)." In: Astrid van Nahl, Lennart Elmevik, & Stefan Brink (eds.). Namenwelten (pp. 241–251). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, p. 241.
  10. Kuhn, Walter. 1955. Geschichte der deutschen Ostsiedlung in der Neuzeit. Cologne: Böhlau, p. 355.
  11. Gasilska zveza Kočevja: Zgodovina (Slovene)
  12. 1 2 3 Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number ešd 1607
  13. Cerkev Sv. Jernej in Kapelica Odrešenika v Ajblju (Slovene)
  14. 1 2 Ajbelj: Podružnična cerkev Božjega Odrešenika / Ajbelj: Filialkirche des Hl. Erlösers (Slovene) (German)
  15. Staniša, Cvetko, & Jože Primc. 2002. Ajbelj in vaški kal. (Signboard posted in Ajbelj.) Hrib: Turistično športno društvo Kostel.
  16. Kostel, Sakralna dediščina (Slovene)
  17. Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number ešd 14001
  18. Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number ešd 14002
  19. Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number ešd 13417
  20. Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number ešd 13418

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