Grčarske Ravne (; german: Masereben
[''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 48.]) is a settlement south of
Dolenja Vas in the
Municipality of Ribnica in southern
Slovenia
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. The area is part of the traditional region of
Lower Carniola and is now included in the
Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.
History
The village was inhabited by
Gottschee Germans Gottscheers are the German settlers of the Kočevje region (a.k.a. Gottschee) of Slovenia, formerly Gottschee County. Until the Second World War, their main language of communication was Gottscheerish, a Bavarian dialect of German.
Origins
They ...
, who were expelled from the area in 1941 during the
Second World War
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. In the 1960s, all German tombstones were removed from the local
cemetery
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...
in the neighboring village of
Grčarice
Grčarice (; locally also ''Grčav(i)ce'',Snoj, Marko. 2009. ''Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen''. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 152. in older sources also ''Gerčarice'', german: Masern,''Leksikon občin kraljestev in de ...
.
Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 14974
References
External links
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Grčarske Ravne on GeopediaPre–World War II map of Grčarske Ravne with oeconyms and family names
Populated places in the Municipality of Ribnica
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