Jelenja Vas, Štalcerji

Jelenja Vas
Iskrba

Jelenja Vas
Jelenja Vas

Location in Slovenia

Coordinates: 45°33′43.58″N 14°51′34.67″E / 45.5621056°N 14.8596306°E / 45.5621056; 14.8596306Coordinates: 45°33′43.58″N 14°51′34.67″E / 45.5621056°N 14.8596306°E / 45.5621056; 14.8596306
Country Slovenia
Traditional region Lower Carniola
Statistical region Southeast Slovenia
Municipality Kočevje
Village Štalcerji
Elevation 562 m (1,844 ft)

Jelenja Vas (pronounced [jɛˈleːnja ˈʋaːs]; Slovene: Jelenja vas, in older sources Jelena vas,[1] formerly also Iskrba,[2]:246[3] German: Hirisgruben[3][4] or Hirschgruben,[5][6] Gottscheerish: Hirisgruəbə[7]) is a hamlet of the village of Štalcerji in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia.[2]:246 Formerly, it was an independent settlement. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.[8]

Name

The Slovene name Jelenja vas literally means 'deer village' and is derived from the Slovene common noun jelen 'red deer'.[9] Jelenja Vas was formerly called Iskrba in Slovene,[2]:234 derived from the German name. The standardized German name Hirschgruben, as well as the local German name Hirisgruben and the Gottscheerish name Hirisgruəbə, are semantically similar and all mean 'deer hollow' (cf. German Hirsch 'deer', Gottscheerish hiris 'deer'[10]), thus referring to the local fauna.

History

Jelenja Vas was a village settled by Gottschee Germans.[2]:246 In the land registry of 1574 it consisted of one farm divided into two half-farms, corresponding to a population between seven and 10. In 1770 it had three houses.[7] It had a population of 24 in 1880,[11] but this fell to only 8 in 1910.[6] Before the Second World War there were three houses in the village and a population of 12.[11][12] The economy of the village was based on farming and transporting wood.[12] In the time of the Drava Banovina, it was part of the Municipality of Kočevska Reka in Kočevje County (Srez Kočevje). The village was burned during the Second World War. In 1971 the only building at the site was a hunting lodge.[2]:246 An air-quality monitoring station is located at Jelenja Vas.[13][14]

References

  1. ↑ Special-Orts-Repertorium von Krain. 1885. Vienna: Alfred Hölder, p. 9.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije
  3. 1 2 Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4.
  4. ↑ Intelligenzblatt zur Laibacher Zeitung, no. 141. 24 November 1849, p. 26.
  5. ↑ Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 40.
  6. 1 2 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. 10. (German)
  7. 1 2 Petschauer, Erich. 1980. "Die Gottscheer Siedlungen – Ortsnamenverzeichnis." In Das Jahrhundertbuch der Gottscheer (pp. 181–197). Klagenfurt: Leustik.
  8. ↑ Kočevje municipal site
  9. ↑ Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 75.
  10. ↑ Schröer, Karl Julius. 1870. Wörterbuch der Mundart von Gottschee. Vienna: K. u. k. Staatsdruckerei, p. 109.
  11. 1 2 Gozdnogospodarski načrt gozdnogospodarske enote Kolpa 2003 – 2012, p. 23. (Slovene)
  12. 1 2 Krajevni leksikon Dravske Banovine. 1937. Ljubljana: Zveza za tujski promet za Slovenijo, pp. 217–218.
  13. ↑ Iskrba monitoring site at GAWSIS
  14. ↑ Air quality data at the Iskrba monitoring site

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