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| Kočevje | |
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| Coordinates: 45°38′34.66″N 14°51′33.78″E / 45.6429611°N 14.8593833°ECoordinates: 45°38′34.66″N 14°51′33.78″E / 45.6429611°N 14.8593833°E | |
| Country |  Slovenia |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Vladimir Prebilič |
| Area | |
| • Total | 14.14 km2 (5.46 sq mi) |
| Elevation[1] | 465 m (1,526 ft) |
| Population (2012)[2] | |
| • Total | 8,616 |
| • Density | 610/km2 (1,600/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+01) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+02) |
Kočevje (German: Gottschee;[3] Göttscheab or Gətscheab in the local Gottscheerish dialect; Italian: Cocevie) is a city in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. It is the seat of the municipality.
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Geography[edit]
The town is located at the foot of the Kočevski Rog karst plateau on the Rinža River in the historic Lower Carniola region. It is nowadays part of the Southeast Slovenia statistical region.[4]
History[edit]
In 1247 Bertoldo de Merania, Patriarch of Aquileia, granted the area around Ribnica within the Imperial March of Carniola to the Carinthian counts of Ortenburg. When the counts had received further estates in 1336 on the wooded plateau down to Kostel on the Kolpa River from the hands of Patriarch Bertram, they called for German-speaking settlers from Carinthia and Tyrol. In the following decades they established the town of Gottschee, which was first mentioned in a 1363 deed. The settlement received market rights in 1377 and town privileges in 1471.
Until 1918, the town was part of the Austrian Empire (and part of Cisleithania after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867), in the district of the same name, as one of the 11 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in province of Carniola.[5] The German name alone was used by the post office before 1867.[6]
After the Second World War, a Yugoslav labor camp for political prisoners operated in Kočevje until March 1946.[7]
Landmarks[edit]
The parish church in the city is dedicated to Saint Bartholomew (Slovene: Sveti Jernej) and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Novo Mesto. It is a Neo-Romanesque building erected between 1887 and 1903 on the site of an earlier church.[8]
Notable people[edit]
Notable people that were born or lived in Kočevje include:
- Matej Bor (1913–1993), poet and author (worked in Kočevje)
- Milan Butina (1923–1999), academy-trained painter, art teacher, art theorist (born in Kočevje)
- Ivan Jurkovič (born 1952), apostolic nuncio to Russia (born in Kočevje)
- Zofka Kveder (1878–1926), writer (worked in Kočevje)
- Alois Loy (1860–1923), longtime mayor of Kočevje
- Viktor Parma (1858–1924), composer (worked in Kočevje)
- Roman Erich Petsche (1907–1993), teacher, painter, and Righteous Among the Nations (born in Kočevje)
- Michael Ruppe (1863–1951), professor and academy-trained painter (worked in Kočevje)
- Franjo Uršič (1898-?), geologist, taught at the Kočevje secondary school before the Second World War
Bibliography[edit]
- Karl-Markus Gauß: Die sterbenden Europäer. Unterwegs zu den Sepharden von Sarajevo, Gottscheer Deutschen, Arbëreshe, Sorben und Aromunen. Zsolnay, Wien 2001, ISBN 3-552-05158-9 (Taschenbuchausgabe: dtv, München, ISBN 3-423-30854-0)
References[edit]
- ^ "Nadmorska višina naselij, kjer so sedeži občin" [Height above sea level of seats of municipalities] (in Slovene, English). Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia. 2002.
- ^ "Kočevje, Kočevje". Place Names. Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
- ^ Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 36. (Slovene)
- ^ Kočevje municipal site
- ^ Klin, Wilhelm. 1967. Die postalischen Abstempelungen auf den österreichischen Postwertzeichen-Ausgaben 1867, 1883 und 1890.
- ^ Mueller, Edwin. 1961. Handbook of Austria and Lombardy-Venetia Cancellations on the Postage Stamp Issues 1850-1864.
- ^ Mrvič, Irena. 1999. "Taborišče." Enciklopedija Slovenije, vol. 13 (Š–T), pp. 177–179. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 179.
- ^ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number 1564
