Jelenja Vas (; , in older sources ''Jelena vas'', formerly also ''Iskrba'',Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba SlovenijeFerenc, Mitja. 2007. ''Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem''. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4. or ''Hirschgruben'',''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 40.Statistische Zentralkommission. 1919. ''Spezialortsrepertorium von Krain: Bearbeitet auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Volkszählung vom 31. Dezember 1910''. Vienna: Verlag der K. K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, p. 10.

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 ...

: ''Hirisgruəbə''Petschauer, Erich. 1980. "Die Gottscheer Siedlungen – Ortsnamenverzeichnis." In ''Das Jahrhundertbuch der Gottscheer'' (pp. 181–197). Klagenfurt: Leustik.) is a hamlet of the village of

Štalcerji Štalcerji ( or ; previously also ''Štalcarji'',''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 40. ) is a settlement in the hills south of the town ...

in the

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in southern

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. Formerly, it was an independent settlement. The area is part of the traditional region of

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Name

The Slovene name ''Jelenja vas'' literally means 'deer village' and is derived from the Slovene common noun ''jelen'' '

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'. Jelenja Vas was formerly called ''Iskrba'' in Slovene, derived from the German name. The standardized German name ''Hirschgruben'', as well as the local German name ''Hirisgruben'' and the Gottscheerish name ''Hirisgruəbə'', are semantically similar and all mean 'deer hollow' (cf. German ''Hirsch'' 'deer', Gottscheerish ''hiris'' 'deer'), thus referring to the local fauna.

History

Jelenja Vas was a village settled by Gottschee Germans. In the land registry of 1574 it consisted of one farm divided into two half-farms, corresponding to a population between seven and 10. In 1770 it had three houses. It had a population of 24 in 1880,Gozdnogospodarski načrt gozdnogospodarske enote Kolpa 2003 – 2012, p. 23.
but this fell to only 8 in 1910. Before the Second World War there were three houses in the village and a population of 12.''Krajevni leksikon Dravske Banovine''. 1937. Ljubljana: Zveza za tujski promet za Slovenijo, pp. 217–218. The economy of the village was based on farming and transporting wood. In the time of the

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, it was part of the Municipality of Kočevska Reka in Kočevje County (''Srez Kočevje''). The village was burned during the Second World War. In 1971 the only building at the site was a hunting lodge. An air-quality monitoring station is located at Jelenja Vas.Air quality data at the Iskrba monitoring site
/ref> File:Jelenja Vas Stalcerji Slovenia Iskrba 1.JPG, The Iskrba Lodge () File:Jelenja Vas Stalcerji Slovenia Iskrba 2.JPG, Entrance to the Iskrba Lodge

References

External links

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