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Koče (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 36.Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. ''Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem''. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4.) is a settlement in the hills south of
Kočevje Kočevje (; ; ''Göttscheab'' or ''Gətscheab'' in the local Gottscheerish dialect; ) is a town and the seat of Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. Geography The town is located at the foot of the Kočevski Rog karst plateau on t ...
in southern
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. The area is part of the traditional region of
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and is now included in the
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.


Name

Koče was known as ''Kotchen'' in German and as ''Götschə'' or ''Gotsch''''Koče / Kotschen''. 2008. Signpost. Created by the Peter Kozler Slovenian Gottschee Society, represented by Erik Krisch. Financed by the Municipality of Kočevje and Hubert Kosler. Text by Mitja Ferenc, design by Manca Dekleva, printed by Mema d.o.o. of Kočevje. in
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 ...
. The name was first attested in 1498 as ''Kötschen'' and is believed to be derived from a plural form of the Slovene common noun ''koča'' '(small) house, shack' in reference to the modest dwellings of tenant farmers. The three villages of
Primoži Primoži (; ,''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 36. Gottscheerish: ''Handlarə''Petschauer, Erich. 1980. "Die Gottscheer Siedlungen – ...
, Koče, and
Mlaka pri Kočevski Reki Mlaka pri Kočevski Reki (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 36.) is a settlement in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia ...
were also referred to collectively in German as ''Fünfzehnhuben'' (literally, 'fifteen hides').


History

The village of Koče had 30 houses and 129 residents in 1880.Ferenc, Mitja, & Gojko Zupan. 2012. ''Izgubljene kočevske vasi'', vol. 2 (K–P). Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, pp. 36–41. On 24 July 1882 a major fire started at the Jakob Wittreich barn at Koče no. 4; it spread and burned down 16 houses and 41 outbuildings in the village, also killing large numbers of livestock, although there were no human fatalities. By 1930 the population of Koče had fallen to 68, and 16 former houses were either vacant or had been torn down. On 28 and 19 November 1941, 48 Gottschee Germans were evicted from the village, leaving only 15 ethnic Slovenes living in 4 houses. After the Second World War, the village was in the
Kočevska Reka Kočevska Reka (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 36.) is a settlement in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. It was a ...
restricted area and the last residents left the village in the 1980s. A signpost with historical and cultural information about the village and the Kočevje region in Slovene, German, and English was erected southwest of the village in October 2008.


Church

The local
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, dedicated to the
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, was a 16th-century
chapel of ease A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church architecture, church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently, generally due to trav ...
that survived the
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, but was demolished in the 1950s. The church belonged to the Parish of
Kočevska Reka Kočevska Reka (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 36.) is a settlement in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. It was a ...
. It stood on a hill at the southern edge of the village, with the altar facing the southeast. It had a long rectangular nave, a
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of equal width, and a bell tower against the southwest wall. The church was listed in a list of ecclesiastic property dating to 1526 and in a report by the
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Paulus Bisantius in 1581. The church was likely built at the end of the 15th century or beginning of the 16th century, originally with a shorter nave and a wooden belfry on the roof. The stone bell tower was probably built in the mid-18th century and the nave extended to the northwest no more than a century later. At this time new windows were built into the church and a tall pointed roof added to the bell tower. The church had a rectangular stone door casing with a window above it. The side entrance to the church also had a door casing built from parts of an older
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door casing. The groin-vaulted sacristy was in the ground floor of the bell tower, and the church had a shingled gabled roof. The walls and vaulting were decorated with 17th-century frescoes. The art historian Marijan Zadnikar (1921–2005) wrote a complete description of the still intact church in 1947. The church was destroyed in 1953 or 1954 and only its foundations are visible today.


Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Koče include: *
Peter Kosler Peter Kosler or Kozler (16 February 1824 – 16 April 1879) was an Austrian-Slovene lawyer, geographer, cartographer, activist, and businessman. He was of Gottscheer origin, but also identified with Slovene culture and advocated for the peac ...
(1824–1879), lawyer, geographer, cartographer, activist, and manufacturerSavnik, Roman, ed. 1971. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, p. 225.


Gallery

File:Koce Kocevje Slovenia - signpost.JPG, Information signpost File:Koce Kocevje Slovenia - Kozler house.JPG, Kosler house File:Koce Kocevje Slovenia - pond.JPG, Village pond


References


External links

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Koče on GeopediaPre–World War II map of Koče with oeconyms and family names
{{DEFAULTSORT:Koce Populated places in the Municipality of Kočevje