Inlauf (; in older sources also ''Innlauf'', german: Inlauf,Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. ''Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem''. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4.

Gottscheerish Gottscheerish (''Göttscheabarisch'',Maridi Tscherne: Wörterbuch Gottscheerisch-Slowenisch. Einrichtung für die Erhaltung des Kulturerbes Nesseltal, Koprivnik/Nesseltal 2010. german: Gottscheerisch, sl, kočevarščina) is an Upper German ...

: ''Inlaf, Enlaf''Petschauer, Erich. 1980. "Die Gottscheer Siedlungen – Ortsnamenverzeichnis." In ''Das Jahrhundertbuch der Gottscheer'' (pp. 181–197). Klagenfurt: Leustik.) is a remote settlement in the

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in southern

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. The area is part of the traditional region of

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and is now included in the

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. Its territory is now part of the village of

Borovec pri Kočevski Reki Borovec pri Kočevski Reki (; german: Morobitz,''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 34.Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. ''Nekdanji nemški jezikovni o ...

Name

The Slovene name of the settlement is derived from the identical standard German name, ''Inlauf''. It was also called ''Inlaf'' or ''Enlaf'' in

. The name is derived from ''Einlauf'' 'inlet, entry'. German place names suffixed with ''-lauf'', such as ''Inlauf'', are frequently associated with flowing water, and Briga Creek ( sl, Briški potok), a

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, has its origin at Inlauf. In 1943 the name ''Innlauf'', based on the Gottschee German village, was proposed as a new Germanized name for Površje, which had been designated for German resettlement.

History

In the land registry of 1574, Inlauf had four full farms, two of which were divided into four half-farms, corresponding to a population between 35 and 40. Before the Second World War, Inlauf had 15 houses and a population of 63. The economy of the village was based on farming, gathering berries, and transporting lumber and logs.''Krajevni leksikon Dravske Banovine''. 1937. Ljubljana: Zveza za tujski promet za Slovenijo, p. 216. After the war, a Yugoslav labor camp for political prisoners operated in the village from 1952 to 1955.Mrvič, Irena. 1999. "Taborišče." ''Enciklopedija Slovenije'', vol. 13 (Š–T), pp. 177–179. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 179.Ferenc, Mitja. "Inlauf: Kapela sv. Kozme in Damijana / Inlauf: Kapelle St. Kosma und Damian"

Chapel

There used to be a chapel dedicated to

Saints Cosmas and Damian Cosmas and Damian ( ar, قُزما ودميان, translit=Qozma wa Demyaan; grc-gre, Κοσμᾶς καὶ Δαμιανός, translit=Kosmás kai Damianós; la, Cosmas et Damianus; AD) were two Arab physicians in the town Cyrrhus, and were r ...

at the southeastern end of Inlauf. It had a rectangular nave, a belfry projecting from the front of the building, and an octagonal

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that was walled on five sides. It dated from the second half of the 18th century and was first mentioned in a military report from 1763–1787; the belfry bore the year 1808 and one of the bells was dated 1799. The chapel had one altar. A postwar Yugoslav labor camp was located next to the chapel and used the belfry as a watchtower. When the camp was closed down, the chapel and belfry were also destroyed.

References

External links

Inlauf on GeopediaPre–World War II map of Inlauf with oeconyms and family names
{{Kočevje Former populated places in the Municipality of Kočevje