Gaber pri Črmošnjicah (; ;
[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. , ) is an Upper German dialect which was the main language of c ...
: ''Gabər''
[Petschauer, Erich. 1980. "Die Gottscheer Siedlungen – Ortsnamenverzeichnis." In ''Das Jahrhundertbuch der Gottscheer'' (pp. 181–197). Klagenfurt: Leustik.]) is a small settlement in the hills west of
Semič
Semič (; ,''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna. formerly also Semenič) is a settlement in southeastern Slovenia. It is the administrative sea ...
in southeastern
Slovenia
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. The area is part of the historical region of
Lower Carniola
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and is now included in the
Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region
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.
Name
The name of the settlement was changed from ''Gaber'' to ''Gaber pri Črmošnjicah'' (literally, 'Gaber near
Črmošnjice) in 1953. It is colloquially known as ''Kočevski Gaber'' (literally, 'Kočevje Gaber').
[Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. p. 412.] The toponym ''Gaber'' is relatively common in Slovenia and is derived from the common noun ''gaber'' '
hornbeam
Hornbeams are hardwood trees in the plant genus ''Carpinus'' in the family Betulaceae. Its species occur across much of the temperateness, temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Common names
The common English name ''hornbeam'' derives ...
', thus referring to the local vegetation.
History
Gaber pri Črmošnjicah was not mentioned in the land registries of 1574 or 1770, and so it was presumably founded relatively late.
Before the Second World War, the village had three houses and a population of 13. The population worked as
day labor
Day labor (or day labour in American and British English spelling differences, Commonwealth spelling) is work done where the worker is hired and paid one day at a time, with no promise that more work will be available in the future, and outside t ...
ers and cultivated fields near their houses. After the
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.
Hi ...
were evicted from the region in the fall of 1941, Gaber pri Črmošnjicah was uninhabited. It was burned by the Italians during the Rog Offensive in the summer of 1942, leaving the ruins of four houses and several cisterns containing water unfit for drinking. The remaining hay fields were managed by the Črnomelj Collective Farm (). The former Kočevje German village of
Vimolj () is located above Gaber pri Črmošnjicah.
The only settlement at the site today is the Totter farm.
[Kambič Štuklj, Mira. 2008. ''Analiza zaraščanja kmetijskih zemljišč na območju poselitve kočevskih Nemcev na primeru vasi Gaber''. Bachelor's thesis. Ljubljana: Oddelek za agronomijo, Bitoehniška fakulteta, Univerza v Ljubljani.]
References
External links
Gaber pri Črmošnjicah on GeopediaPre–World War II list of oeconyms and family names in Gaber pri Črmošnjicah
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gaber Pri Crmosnjicah
Populated places in the Municipality of Semič