Mahovnik (; in older sources also ''Mošvald'';
[''Intelligenzblatt zur Laibacher Zeitung'', no. 141. 24 November 1849, p. 26] german: Mooswald,
[''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 36.] in older sources also ''Moschwald''
) is a settlement on the left bank of the
Rinža River, immediately northwest of the town of
Kočevje
Kočevje (; german: Gottschee; ''Göttscheab'' or ''Gətscheab'' in the local Gottscheerish dialect; it, Cocevie) is a city in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. It is the seat of the municipality.
Geography
The town is loc ...
in southern
Slovenia
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. The area is part of the traditional region of
Lower Carniola
Lower Carniola ( sl, Dolenjska; german: Unterkrain) is a traditional region in Slovenia, the southeastern part of the historical Carniola region.
Geography
Lower Carniola is delineated by the Ljubljana Basin with the city of Ljubljana to the n ...
and is now included in the
Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region
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.
History
Mahovnik was the first settlement in
Gottschee
Gottschee (, sl, Kočevsko) refers to a former German-speaking region in Carniola, a crownland of the Habsburg Empire, part of the historical and traditional region of Lower Carniola, now in Slovenia. The region has been a county, duchy, district ...
attested in written sources. It was named in a letter from
Patriarch Bertram to Count Oton von Ortenburg on 1 September 1339.
[Tschinkel, Wilhelm. ''Gottscheer Volkstum in Sitte, Brauch, Märchen, Sagen, Legenden und anderen volkstümlichen Überlieferungen.'' Ljubljana: ZRC, p. 607.] At the time, it also included the territory of present-day
Kočevje
Kočevje (; german: Gottschee; ''Göttscheab'' or ''Gətscheab'' in the local Gottscheerish dialect; it, Cocevie) is a city in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. It is the seat of the municipality.
Geography
The town is loc ...
, which was still unnamed. In 1574 the settlement had 20 half-farms and one tenant farmer. The settlement was the first point of arrival for
Gottschee German settlers in the area in the 14th century. The ethnically German settlers were evicted in 1941, after which the settlement was repopulated by arrivals from other parts of Slovenia.
Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Mahovnik include:
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Meta Koren, journalist and translator (1911–?)
References
External links
Mahovnik on GeopediaPre–World War II map of Mahovnik with oeconyms and family names
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Populated places in the Municipality of Kočevje
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