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Kočevje

Kočevje (pronounced [kɔˈtʃeːwjɛ] ; German: Gottschee;[3] Göttscheab or Gətscheab in the local Gottscheerish dialect; Italian: Cocevie) is a town and the seat of Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia.

For the former Austrian enclave with this name, see Gottschee. For the hamlet of Črnomelj with this name, see Črnomelj.

Kočevje

 Slovenia

Vladimir Prebilič

14.14 km2 (5.46 sq mi)

465 m (1,526 ft)

8,113

UTC+01 (CET)

UTC+02 (CEST)

LJ

Name[edit]

Kočevje was attested in written sources in 1363 as Gotsche (and as Gotsew in 1386, Kotsche in 1425, and propre Koczeuiam in 1478). The name is derived from *Hvojčevje (from hvoja 'fir, spruce'), referring to the local vegetation. The initial hv- changed to k- under the influence of German phonology. Older discredited explanations include derivation from the hypothetical common noun *kočevje 'nomadic settlement' and Slovene koča 'shack'.[6] The former German name was Gottschee.[3]

(1931–2011), sculptor, graphic artist and teacher (worked in Kočevje)

Stane Jarm

(1913–1993), poet and author

Matej Bor

(1923–1999), academy-trained painter, art teacher, art theorist

Milan Butina

(born 1952), apostolic nuncio to Russia

Ivan Jurkovič

(1878–1926), writer

Zofka Kveder

(1860–1923), longtime mayor

Alois Loy

(1858–1924), composer

Viktor Parma

(1907–1993), teacher, painter, and Righteous Among the Nations

Roman Erich Petsche

(1908–1942), secondary-school professor, social revolutionary, communist resistance fighter

Jože Šeško

(1898–?), geologist, taught at the secondary school before the Second World War

Franjo Uršič

Notable people that were born or lived in Kočevje include:

(2001). Die sterbenden Europäer. Unterwegs zu den Sepharden von Sarajevo, Gottscheer Deutschen, Arbëreshe, Sorben und Aromunen (in German). Vienna: Zsolnay. ISBN 3-552-05158-9.

Gauß, Karl-Markus

Media related to Kočevje at Wikimedia Commons

Kočevje on Geopedia

Pre–World War II list of Kočevje residences, occupations, and family names (1–39)

Pre–World War II list of Kočevje residences, occupations, and family names (40–140)

Pre–World War II list of Kočevje residences, occupations, and family names (144–326)

Pre–World War II list of Kočevje residences, occupations, and family names (332–344, unnumbered)