Zdihovo (; german: Oberskrill
[''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 38.]) is an abandoned 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 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 ...
. At the start of the
Second World War its original population was expelled. The area is part of the traditional region of
Lower Carniola and is now included in the
Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.
The local
church was dedicated to
Our Lady of Sorrows and was a
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
pilgrimage church built in 1702. It was demolished in 1954.
Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 2076
References
External links
Zdihovo on GeopediaPre–World War II map of Zdihovo with oeconyms and family names
Populated places in the Municipality of Kočevje
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