Gorenji Mačkovec (; )
[''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 38.][Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. ''Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem''. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4.] is a remote abandoned former settlement in the
Municipality of Kočevje
The Municipality of Kočevje (; ) is a Municipalities of Slovenia, 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 t ...
in southern
Slovenia
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. The area is part of the traditional region of
Lower Carniola
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and is now included in the
Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region
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.
Kočevje municipal site
/ref> Its territory is now part of the village of Laze pri Oneku
Laze pri Oneku (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 38.Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. ''Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem''. Kočevje ...
.
History
Gorenji Mačkovec was a village 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.
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. It had two houses before the Second World War
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. The village was burned by Italian troops during the Rog Offensive in August 1942 and was not rebuilt after the war.
References
External links
Gorenji Mačkovec (Gornji Mačkovec) on Geopedia
Pre–World War II map of Gorenji Mačkovec with oeconyms and family names
Former populated places in the Municipality of Kočevje
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