Dekmanca (; Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 4: Štajersko. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 14.) is a settlement on the right bank of the Sotla River in the Municipality of Bistrica ob Sotli in eastern Slovenia, right on the border with Croatia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included in the Lower Sava Statistical Region; until January 2014 it was part of the Savinja Statistical Region.Bistrica ob Sotli municipal site The settlement includes the hamlets of Graben, Bobovec, and Gmajna.Savnik, Roman, ed. 1976. Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 3. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. p. 365.
Name Dekmanca was attested in written sources in 1351 as Dyͤtmarstorff (and as Dietmarsdorf in 1404, Dietmansdorf in 1426, and Dietmannsdorff in 1480). The name is derived from the German personal name Dietmar or Dietman. Locally, Dekmanca is known as Dekmarca. In modern German it was known as Deckmannsdorf.
History There is surface evidence of an Ancient Roman settlement in the Groblje area in Dekmanca. The site has been protected as a national heritage site by the Slovenian Ministry of Culture, but it has not been investigated in any detail so far.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number 4599
Davjek karst spring Davjek, a karst spring, is in the isolated karst of Kozje Regional Park (). The spring measures in diameter and continues into a stream, where there is another smaller spring, which is also used for drinking. The stream flows into the Sotla River. The basin itself is about long and wide. The spring was formed at the contact between the slope and the surrounding plain, at the juncture between permeable limestone and impermeable marl. People have picnics, take walks in the area, and hold small parties near the spring.
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External links Dekmanca on Geopedia