Ravne (; german: Eben;''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 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 ...

: ''Ebn'', ''Ebnə''Petschauer, Erich. 1980. "Die Gottscheer Siedlungen – Ortsnamenverzeichnis." In ''Das Jahrhundertbuch der Gottscheer'' (pp. 181–197). Klagenfurt: Leustik.) is a remote 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

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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. 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 ...

.Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, p. 217.

Name

''Ravne'' is a relatively common name for places in Slovenia (cf. '' Ravne'', '' Ravne'', '' Ravne na Koroškem'', etc.). The name literally means 'level' and is of adjectival origin, usually an ellipsis of ''ravne njive'' 'level fields', referring to a small elongated cultivated terrace.Snoj, Marko. 2009. ''Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen''. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 348. The German name ''Eben'' is semantically identical, meaning 'level' and referring to cultivation of the land.

History

In 1498 Ravne had three full farms divided into half-farms, corresponding to a population between 35 and 40. In 1770 the village had 13 houses. One of the executed ringleaders of the 1809 Gottscheer Rebellion was from Ravne. The village had 18 houses and a population of 47 in 1937. Ravne had a steam-powered sawmill, which was burned down during the Second World War. The village came under aerial bombardment during the war. After the war the Posestvo Snežnik company had a barn for cattle in Ravne.

Pilgrimage chapel and shrine

A forest pilgrimage chapel known as Our Lady of the Woods (german: Maria im Walde)Kundegraber, Maria. 1962. "Die Wallfahrten der Gottscheer (Mit 1 Karte und 7 Abb.)." ''Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde'' 65: 233–260, p. 239, abridged and reprinted in ''Gottscheer Gedenkstätte'' 47 (June 2010), p. 5.
was built between Eben and

in 1905 at the site of the Eben Shrine (german: Ebener Bild or ''Ebner Bild'', Gottscheerish: ), a popular wayside shrine. The church was built as a result of the 1855 cholera epidemic, during which the residents of

would trek to the summit of Ravne Hill (german: Ebner Berg, 846 m) and the priest mentioned that a small church could be built where there was an shrine with an image of

Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows Our Lady of Sorrows ( la, Beata Maria Virgo Perdolens), Our Lady of Dolours, the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows ( la, Mater Dolorosa, link=no), and Our Lady of Piety, Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolours are names ...

, probably erected around 1440 or 1450 along a route to

Rijeka Rijeka ( , , ; also known as Fiume hu, Fiume, it, Fiume ; local Chakavian: ''Reka''; german: Sankt Veit am Flaum; sl, Reka) is the principal seaport and the third-largest city in Croatia (after Zagreb and Split). It is located in Primor ...

for pack animals. The chapel was 10.5 m long, 5.5 m wide, and 15 m tall, topped by a

flèche Flèche or Fleche may refer to: *Flèche (architecture), a type of church spire *Flèche (cycling), a team cycling competition *Flèche (fencing), an aggressive offensive fencing technique *Flèche (fortification) A flèche ( Fr. for "arrow") is ...

with two bells. It was built of undressed stone. The construction began on 5 July 1905 and the chapel was consecrated on 17 September 1905. The chapel was destroyed during the Second World War.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 12860

References

External links

Ravne on GeopediaPre–World War II map of Ravne with oeconyms and family names
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ravne, Kocevje Former populated places in the Municipality of Kočevje