| Grintovec | |
|---|---|
  GrintovecLocation in Slovenia | |
| Coordinates: 45°41′26.76″N 14°53′47.06″E / 45.6907667°N 14.8964056°E / 45.6907667; 14.8964056 | |
| Country |  Slovenia |
| Traditional region | Lower Carniola |
| Statistical region | Southeast Slovenia |
| Municipality | Kočevje |
| Elevation | 479.1 m (1,571.9 ft) |
Grintovec (pronounced [ˈɡɾiːntɔʋəts]; also Grintovec pri Kočevju; German: Grintowitz or Grintowitz bei Altlack; Gottscheerish: Grintəbitz) is a remote abandoned settlement in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. Its territory is now part of the village of Kleč.
Name
The name Grintovec is shared with several other settlements (e.g., Grintovec, Grintovec pri Osilnici, etc.). The name is derived from the Slovene common noun grintavec 'snowy/rocky bare area', 'dolomite', a univerbation of the phrase grintav (svet) 'empty area, rough area'. Simonič also suggests that the name could be derived from the plant field scabious (Knautia arvensis), known as grintavec in Slovene and Grindkraut in German. The longer Slovene name Grintovec pri Kočevju means 'Grintovec near Kočevje'. The longer German name Grintowitz bei Altlack means 'Grintovec near Stari Log'.
History
Grintovec was a Gottschee German village. In the land registry of 1574 it had two full farms divided into four half-farms, corresponding to a population between 10 and 15. In the 1770 census the settlement had seven houses. Before the Second World War the settlement had nine houses and a population of 46. Italian troops burned the area on 1 August 1942 during the Rog Offensive. After this the Executive Committee of the Liberation Front (IOOF) established a hut in the vicinity for an economics committee.
References
- ^ Savnik, Roman (1971). Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. p. 223.
- 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.
- Intelligenzblatt zur Laibacher Zeitung, no. 141. 24 November 1849, p. 26.
- ^ Petschauer, Erich. 1980. "Die Gottscheer Siedlungen – Ortsnamenverzeichnis." In Das Jahrhundertbuch der Gottscheer (pp. 181–197). Klagenfurt: Leustik.
- Kočevje municipal site
- Snoj, Marko (2009). Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan. p. 154.
- Petauer, Tomaž. 1993. Leksikon rastlinskih bogastev. Ljubljana: Tehniška založba Slovenije, p. 300.
- Hänsel, Rudolf et al. 1993. Hagers Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, vol. 5, Drogen E–O. Berlin: Springer, p. 612.
- Simonič, Ivan. 1935. "Kočevarji v luči krajevnih in ledinskih imen." Glasnik Muzejskega društva za Slovenijo 16: 61–81 and 106–123, p. 71.
- Krajevni leksikon Dravske Banovine. 1937. Ljubljana: Zveza za tujski promet za Slovenijo, p. 224.
