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]
Jelenja Vas
Iskrba | |
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 Jelenja Vas | |
  Jelenja Vas Location in Slovenia | |
| Coordinates: 45°33′42″N 14°51′28″E / 45.5618°N 14.8578°E | |
| Country |  Slovenia |
| Traditional region | Lower Carniola |
| Statistical region | Southeast Slovenia |
| Municipality | Kočevje |
| Village | Štalcerji |
| Elevation | 562 m (1,844 ft) |
Name
editThe 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
editJelenja 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]
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The Iskrba Lodge (Slovene: Vila Iskrba) -
Entrance to the Iskrba Lodge
References
edit- ^ Special-Orts-Repertorium von Krain. 1885. Vienna: Alfred Hölder, p. 9.
- ^ a b c d e Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije
- ^ a b Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4.
- ^ Intelligenzblatt zur Laibacher Zeitung, no. 141. 24 November 1849, p. 26.
- ^ Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 40.
- ^ a b 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. Archived 2011-08-06 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
- ^ a b Petschauer, Erich. 1980. "Die Gottscheer Siedlungen – Ortsnamenverzeichnis." In Das Jahrhundertbuch der Gottscheer (pp. 181–197). Klagenfurt: Leustik.
- ^ Kočevje municipal site
- ^ Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 75.
- ^ Schröer, Karl Julius. 1870. Wörterbuch der Mundart von Gottschee. Vienna: K. u. k. Staatsdruckerei, p. 109.
- ^ a b Gozdnogospodarski načrt gozdnogospodarske enote Kolpa 2003 – 2012, p. 23.[permanent dead link] (in Slovene)
- ^ a b Krajevni leksikon Dravske Banovine. 1937. Ljubljana: Zveza za tujski promet za Slovenijo, pp. 217–218.
- ^ "Iskrba monitoring site at GAWSIS". Archived from the original on 2012-09-06. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
- ^ Air quality data at the Iskrba monitoring site
External links
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Media related to Jelenja Vas at Wikimedia Commons- Jelenja Vas on Geopedia
- Pre–World War II map of Jelenja Vas with oeconyms and family names
