Koprivnik (; german: Nesseltal
[Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. ''Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem''. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4.] or ''Nesselthal''
[''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 38.]) is a settlement in the
Municipality of Kočevje
The Municipality of Kočevje (; sl, Občina Kočevje) is a municipality in southern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the city of Kočevje. Today it is part of the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. In terms of area, it is the larg ...
in southern
Slovenia. It was a village settled 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 ...
until 1941. During the
Second World War its original population was expelled. The area is part of the traditional region of
Lower Carniola and is now part of the
Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.
History
The Koprivnik volunteer fire department became a founding unit of the Kočevje municipal fire department on 28 August 1955.
Church
The local
parish church in the village was dedicated to
Saint James Saint James or St. James may refer to:
People Saints
*James, brother of Jesus (died 62 or 69), also known as James the Just
*James the Great (died 44), Apostle, also known as James, son of Zebedee, or Saint James the Greater
**Saint James Matamoro ...
and was built in 1622 on the location of a 14th-century church. It was set on fire in 1949 and its ruins totally removed in 1955. A 19th-century
chapel built outside the village next to the main
cemetery was a dedicated to
Saint Anne
According to Christian apocryphal and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the canonical gospels. In writing, Anne's name and that of her husband Joachim come o ...
and was burnt to the ground in 1956. A church was built in its place in 1973. The cemetery is one of only ten in the Kočevje region to have (mostly) preserved the gravestones of the Gottschee Germans. Some of the gravestones have been professionally restored.
Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Koprivnik include the following:
*
August Schauer
August Schauer (17 January 1872 – 1 July 1941)Ferenc, Mitja, & Gojko Zupan. 2012. ''Izgubljene kočevske vasi'', vol. 2 (K–P). Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, p. 229. was a Gottschee German Roman Cath ...
(1872–1941), parish priest at Koprivnik for over 30 years and editor of the ''Gottscheer Kalender'' (
Gottschee
Gottschee (, sl, Kočevsko) refers to a former German-speaking region in Carniola, a crownland of the Habsburg monarchy, Habsburg Empire, part of the historical and traditional region of Lower Carniola, now in Slovenia. The region has been a coun ...
Almanac) from 1925 to 1941
[Ferenc, Mitja, & Gojko Zupan. 2012. ''Izgubljene kočevske vasi'', vol. 2 (K–P). Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, p. 229.]
References
External links
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Koprivnik on GeopediaPre–World War II map of Koprivnik with oeconyms and family names
Populated places in the Municipality of Kočevje
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