Prapreče pri Šentjerneju

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Prapreče pri Šentjerneju
Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 45°51′2.29″N15°16′58.36″E / 45.8506361°N 15.2828778°E / 45.8506361; 15.2828778 Coordinates: 45°51′2.29″N15°16′58.36″E / 45.8506361°N 15.2828778°E / 45.8506361; 15.2828778
Country Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia
Traditional region Lower Carniola
Statistical region Southeast Slovenia
Municipality Šentjernej
Area
 • Total 1.51 km2 (0.58 sq mi)
Elevation 178.2 m (584.6 ft)
Population (2002)
 • Total 50
[1]

Prapreče pri Šentjerneju (pronounced  [ˈpɾaːpɾɛtʃɛ pɾi ʃɛntjɛɾˈnɛːju] ; German : Prapretsche [2] ) is a settlement in the Municipality of Šentjernej in southeastern Slovenia. The entire municipality was traditionally part of Lower Carniola. It is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. [3] It includes the hamlet of Gmajnica (German : Gmainza [2] [4] ). [5]

German language West Germanic language

German is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol (Italy), the German-speaking Community of Belgium, and Liechtenstein. It is also one of the three official languages of Luxembourg and a co-official language in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland. The languages which are most similar to German are the other members of the West Germanic language branch: Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German/Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and Yiddish. There are also strong similarities in vocabulary with Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, although those belong to the North Germanic group. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language, after English.

Municipality An administrative division having corporate status and usually some powers of self-government or jurisdiction

A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. It is to be distinguished (usually) from the county, which may encompass rural territory or numerous small communities such as towns, villages and hamlets.

Šentjernej Town and Municipality in Slovenia

Šentjernej is a small town and a municipality in southeastern Slovenia. The area was traditionally part of Lower Carniola. It is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.

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Geography

Prapreče pri Šentjerneju is a clustered village on the edge of a terrace about 10 m above a broad stream valley. The soil is mostly loamy. Tilled fields surround the settlement and have local names: V ograji (literally, 'in the enclosure' to the northwest), Cerkvišče (literally, 'churchyard' to the northeast), Laz (literally, 'clearing' to the east, where there are also meadows), Široke njive (literally, 'broad fields' to the south), and Hrib (literally 'hill' to the west). The slopes of the terrace are planted with grapes and there is mixed woodland to the west. [5]

Name

The village was first recorded as Praprotschach in 1304 (and as Probeszech in 1392 and Praprasach in 1423). The name is derived from the Slovene common noun praprot 'fern' and, like similar names (e.g., Praproče, Praprotno Brdo, Paprače = German : Farrendorf), originally referred to the local vegetation. [6] The village was known as Prapretsche in German in the past. [2] The name of the settlement was changed from Prapreče to Prapreče pri Šentjerneju in 1953. [7]

Fern group of plants

A fern is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They differ from mosses by being vascular, i.e., having specialized tissues that conduct water and nutrients and in having life cycles in which the sporophyte is the dominant phase. Ferns have complex leaves called megaphylls, that are more complex than the microphylls of clubmosses. Most ferns are leptosporangiate ferns, sometimes referred to as true ferns. They produce coiled fiddleheads that uncoil and expand into fronds. The group includes about 10,560 known extant species.

Praproče, Dobrova–Polhov Gradec Place in Upper Carniola, Slovenia

Praproče is a small village west of Polhov Gradec in the Municipality of Dobrova–Polhov Gradec in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. It includes part of the hamlet of Zalog northwest of the main settlement, in the valley of Big Božna Creek.

Praprotno Brdo Place in Inner Carniola, Slovenia

Praprotno Brdo is a small settlement above Rovte in the Municipality of Logatec in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia.

History

The village was first mentioned in written sources in 1304, when the Sicherstein family transferred the manor and ten farms there into the feudal possession of a certain Martin and his wife. The village later came under the control of the Counts of Celje and then the Prince-Bishopric of Freising. In 1423, two brothers named Freichawer from Vrhovo are recorded as operating two mills in Prapreče belonging to the Prince-Bishopric of Freising. [5] In modern history, the surname Vrtačič is particularly common in the village. [5]

Counts of Celje noble family

The Counts of Celje or the Counts of Cilli were the most influential late medieval noble dynasty on the territory of present-day Slovenia. Risen as vassals of the Habsburg dukes of Styria, they ruled the County of Cilli as immediate counts (Reichsgrafen) from 1341 and rose to Princes of the Holy Roman Empire in 1436.

Prince-Bishopric of Freising

The Prince-Bishopric of Freising was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire from 1294 until its secularisation in the early years of the 19th century.

Cultural heritage

Archaeological finds at two sites close to the village have shown Late Iron Age and Roman-era occupation. [8]

Artifact (archaeology) Something made by humans and of archaeological interest

An artifact, or artefact, is something made or given shape by humans, such as a tool or a work of art, especially an object of archaeological interest.

Archaeological site Place in which evidence of past activity is preserved

An archaeological site is a place in which evidence of past activity is preserved, and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record. Sites may range from those with few or no remains visible above ground, to buildings and other structures still in use.

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humankind. It was preceded by the Stone Age and the Bronze Age. The concept has been mostly applied to Europe and the Ancient Near East, and, by analogy, also to other parts of the Old World.

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References

  1. ↑ Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. 1 2 3 Intelligenzblatt zur Laibacher Zeitung, no. 141. 24 November 1849, p. 38.
  3. ↑ Šentjernej municipal site
  4. ↑ Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 156.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, p. 525.
  6. ↑ Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 326.
  7. ↑ Spremembe naselij 1948–95. 1996. Database. Ljubljana: Geografski inštitut ZRC SAZU, DZS.
  8. ↑ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference numbers ešd 8647 and 26005


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