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Dobrunje
Dobrunje
Dobrunje
Country Slovenia
Traditional regionLower Carniola
Statistical regionCentral Slovenia
MunicipalityLjubljana
Elevation
282.5 m (926.8 ft)
[1]

Dobrunje (pronounced [dɔˈbɾuːnjɛ]; German: Dobruine[2] or Dobrouine[3]) is a formerly independent settlement in the southeast part of the capital Ljubljana in central Slovenia. It belongs to the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It was part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region.[4] In addition to the main settlement, Dobrunje consists of the hamlets of Devce (in the west along the road to Bizovik), Marinki (in the north along the main road to Litija), Na Trdnjavi (to the south, at the base of St. Ulrich’s Hill), Ob Cesti (to the east), and Pod Ježo (to the north, toward the Ljubljanica River). Rastučnik Creek, which begins below Orle, runs through the western part of the settlement before joining the Ljubljanica.[5]

Name

Dobrunje was first attested in 1312 as dacz Dobrown (and as Dobrienn in 1444 and Dobrun in 1490). The name is derived from the hypocorism *Dobrunъ, based on the adjective *dobrъ 'good' and was probably originally adjectival (i.e., *Dobrun′e selo 'Dobrunъ’s village'), later undergoing conversion from a neuter singular adjective to a feminine plural noun.[6] Živko Šifrer mentions a feudal lord named Dobrin as the source of the name.[5] In the past the German name was Dobruine.[2]

History

Two manors belonging to lesser nobility were attested in Dobrunje in the first half of the 16th century. In the hamlet of Trdnjava, at house no. 5, there once stood a castle that was destroyed in 1483 during the Ottoman attacks.[5][7] Two statues from the castle are preserved: a statue of John of Nepomuk at the Černe house near the bakery (until 1936 it was displayed on the outer wall of the Dežman house in Zadvor), and a statue of John the Baptist held by the Ljubljana City Museum (before the Second World War it was in the roadside chapel-shrine on Codelli Street, Kodeljeva).[5][7] On 8 August 1937 a large labor fair was held in Dobrunje on St. Ulrich’s Hill, organized by the Yugoslav Professional Association (Slovene: Jugoslovanska strokovna zveza, JSZ). It was attended by over 2,000 people.[8]

Second World War

In 1942 two men from Bizovik (Franc Jakoš[9] and Janez Pavčič[10]) and three from Dobrunje (Milko Cankar,[11] Franc Jakoš Sr.,[12] and Franc Jakoš Jr.[13]) were abducted and killed by the Partisans. They were referred to in the extensive press coverage as the "Bizovik victims" (Slovene: bizoviške žrtve) and the "Dobrunje victims" (Slovene: dobrunjske žrtve). Their bodies were discovered on 20 March 1943 and they were buried at the Bizovik and Dobrunje cemeteries in ceremonies attended by several thousand people.[14][15][16][17]

Former rectory
Beech trees
Memorial site

During the Second World War, a White Guard post was located at St. Ulrich's Church above Dobrunje. White Guard forces allegedly killed 123 people were killed at the site,[5] using the rectory basement to torture their victims.[18] Soon after the war, reports about murders at St. Ulrich's started to appear in leftist emigrant newspapers such as Enakopravnost,[19] with some claiming that over 700,[20] 1,000,[21] or even 1,500[22] people had been killed there. Local people were forced to disinter bodies for three weeks and bury them in a mass grave.[23] A memorial by the sculptors Karel Putrih (1910–1959) and Zdenko Kalin (1911–1990) was designed between 1948 and 1951, and was installed at the site in 1955.[24] The mass grave memorial officially contains the remains of 123 victims of the White Guards, 36 members of the fourth battalion of the Partisan Cankar Brigade killed in an attack on 18 September 1943, and the poet, playwright, and Partisan soldier Jožef Miškrič (1902–1943).[5] The memorial complex also includes two beech trees in the forest south of the church where it is alleged that victims were shot.[24]

After the fall of communism and Slovene independence, local people started openly calling into question the official version of events at St. Ulrich's. Claims were made that many of the bodies at the site were actually people liquidated by the Partisans during or after the war,[23][25] including the "Šentpavel victims" (Slovene: šentpavelske žrtve)—eight men abducted by Yugoslav military police (KNOJ) from the village of Šentpavel on 4 July 1945 and murdered.[23][26][27][28] It was also suggested that the political commissar Ivan Maček (1908–1993) manipulated the facts in order to created a major Partisan memorial conveniently located near Ljubljana.[29]

Annexation

Dobrunje was annexed by the city of Ljubljana in 1982, ending its existence as an independent settlement.[30][31]

St. Ulrich's Church

Before 2006
After 2006
St. Ulrich's Church

In the past, a pilgrimage route led to the hill where St. Ulrich’s church is located. The pilgrims prayed for intercession against malaria.[7] A church already stood at the location in the Middle Ages.[5] The current church was built by the Counts of Codelli, who also granted part of the forest to the church. A Latin inscription at the church states that it was dedicated by Ljubljana Bishop Felix Schrattenbach on 11 October 1741. Until 1788 a branch of the Stična monastery was also located at the site. The church was the seat of an independent parish until 1810, comprising the villages of Dobrunje, Podmolnik, and Zadvor. In 1810 it became part of the Parish of Sostro.[7] There is a plaque commemorating the fallen of the First World War to the right of the entrance to the church. The plaque was created by the stone cutter Ivan Irt from Štepanja Vas.[32] A ceremony at the church to unveil the plaque was announced for 25 April 1926[33][34] and the date 25 April 1926 appears on the stone.

As part of the process of creating the Second World War memorial, St. Ulrich's Church was nationalized on 7 May 1947 as a Second World War monument.[35] The church was purposefully left in disrepair, showing damage from the war. After Slovene independence, demands were made to denationalize St. Ulrich's Church and return it to the parish.[25] The keys to the church were ceremonially handed over to Father Mirko Pihler on 9 June 1994, returning the building to the Parish of Sostro.[35] Work to repair the exterior of the church began in 2006.[36]

Cemetery

The cemetery at Dobrunje was often used to bury drowning victims from the Ljubljanica River, whose bodies were frequently pulled out by local fishermen[37] or washed ashore at Vevče.[38][39][40][41] The cemetery was destroyed after the Second World War in order to create the monument at the site. Although it was characterized at the time as abandoned,[18] it had still been actively used during the Second World War by the local population.[15][42][43]

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Dobrunje include:

Gallery

  • Roadside crucifix
    Roadside crucifix
  • Abandoned farm
    Abandoned farm
  • Farmland
    Farmland
  • Rastučnik Creek
    Rastučnik Creek

References

  1. ^ Dobrunje at geopedia.si
  2. ^ a b Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 106.
  3. ^ Intelligenzblatt zur Laibacher Zeitung, no. 141. 24 November 1849, p. 20.
  4. ^ Ljubljana municipal site
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, p. 360.
  6. ^ Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 115.
  7. ^ a b c d "Sostro pri Ljubljani." 1939. Slovenec 67(184) (13 August): 14. Template:Sl icon
  8. ^ "Delavski tabor pri sv. Urhu." 1937. 'Slovenec' 65(10) (10 August): 3. Template:Sl icon
  9. ^ Grave of Franc Jakoš
  10. ^ Grave of Janez Pavčič
  11. ^ Grave of Milko Cankar
  12. ^ Grave of Franc Jakoš Sr.
  13. ^ Grave of Franc Jakoš Jr.
  14. ^ "Najdba trupel podžupana Pogačnika in tovarišev." Slovenec 71(66) (23 March 1943): 3. Template:Sl icon
  15. ^ a b "Pogreb bizoviških in dobrunjskih žrtev." Slovenec 71(68) (25 March 1943): 3 Template:Sl icon
  16. ^ "Velike množice na pogrebu komunističnih žrtev." Slovenec 71(69) (27 March 1943): 3. Template:Sl icon
  17. ^ "Protikomunistične manifestacije ljudstva." Jutro 23(70) (28 March 1943): 2. Template:Sl icon
  18. ^ a b Luštek, Miroslav. "Naši spomeniki: Gramozna jama, Žale, Urh." 1954. Kronika 2(3): 157–166. Template:Sl icon
  19. ^ Mirel, Jeffrey. 2010. Patriotic Pluralism: Americanization Education and European Immigrants. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, p. 194.
  20. ^ "Pisma iz starega kraja: Obsoja domače izdajalce." 1946. Enakopravnost 29(75) (16 April): 5–6. Template:Sl icon
  21. ^ Medvešek, Mary. 1946. "'Baby Shower' v Euclidu." Enakopravnost 29(13) (18 January): 2. Template:Sl icon
  22. ^ Skrinar, M. 1946. "Tudi duhovniki so se borili." Prosveta 38(134) (11 July): 2. Template:Sl icon
  23. ^ a b c Kržan, Vanja. 2010. "Mi pa oznanjamo Kristusa, križanega (1 Kor 1,23)." Zaveza 42 (25 February). Template:Sl icon
  24. ^ a b Cultural heritage sign at St. Ulrich's Church in Dobrunje.
  25. ^ a b Društvo za zamolčane grobove in stranke slovenske pomladi. 1994. Letter to the editor. In: Naša skupnost (Ljubljana) 35(8) (29 November): 4. Template:Sl icon
  26. ^ Žajdela, Ivo. 1991. Komunistični zločini na Slovenskem, vol. 1. Ljubljana: ČZP Novo Jutro, pp. 136–137.
  27. ^ "Pojdimo v Šentpavel" at druzina.si Template:Sl icon
  28. ^ Žajdela, Ivo. 1990. "Komunistična grobišča na Slovenskem." Tribuna: študentski časopis 39(18):8–11, p. 9. Template:Sl icon
  29. ^ Ložar, France & Ivanka Kozlevčar. 2011. "Mačkova ideja za ovekovečenje Svetega Urha." Zaveza 66 (18 July) Template:Sl icon
  30. ^ Spremembe naselij 1948–95. 1996. Database. Ljubljana: Geografski inštitut ZRC SAZU, DZS.
  31. ^ Statistični urad Republike Slovenije
  32. ^ "Dobrunje pri Ljubljani: Odkritje spomenika padlim." Domoljub 39(20) (20 May 1926): 314 Template:Sl icon
  33. ^ "Dopisi." Domovina 9(17) (23 April 1926): 3. Template:Sl icon
  34. ^ "Odkritje spomenika padlim vojakom." Slovenec 54(91) (22 April 1926): 4. Template:Sl icon
  35. ^ a b "Denacionalizacija cerkve sv. Urha v Dobrunjah." 1994. Glas Slovenije / The Voice of Slovenia 2(32–33) (3 and 17 August), p. 4.
  36. ^ Petrovčič, Peter. 2006. "Zgodovino retušira tudi cerkev." Mladina 40 (6 October). Template:Sl icon
  37. ^ Novak, Lojze. 1936. "Slape in Slapljani." Jutro 17(86) (11 April): 9–10. Template:Sl icon
  38. ^ Kmetijske in rokodelske novice 59(49) (7 December 1901): 487. Template:Sl icon
  39. ^ "Dnevne novice." Slovenec 44(226) (3 October 1916): 5. Template:Sl icon
  40. ^ "Beg iz življenja." Jutro 11(71) (26 March 1930): 3. Template:Sl icon
  41. ^ "Grozen detomor." Slovenec 60(178) (6 August 1932): 8. Template:Sl icon
  42. ^ Funeral notice for Pavel Podboršek. Jutro 22(204) (6 September 1942): 3, 6. Template:Sl icon
  43. ^ Funeral notice for Marija Toni Remic. Slovenec 70(210) (13 September 1942): 3. Template:Sl icon

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