Gnadendorf (Gottschee German: Gnoudndoarf, Gnoudndaf)Petschauer, Erich. 1980. Die Gottscheer Siedlungen – Ortsnamenverzeichnis. In: Das Jahrhundertbuch der Gottscheer (pp. 181–197). Klagenfurt: Leustik. is a former village 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.Kočevje municipal site Its territory is now part of the town of Kočevje.
History
The village of Gnadendorf did not have a Slovene name.Special-Orts-Repertorium von Krain. 1884. Vienna: Alfred Hölder, p. 9. In the 1880 census, the village had 17 houses and a population of 135, which was 95% German-speaking. In 1894, Gnadendorf had a lower secondary school, hospital, and orphanage, and it already formed a continuous conurbation with KočevjeBericht über die Verhandlungen des Krainischen Landtages zu Laibach: nach den stenographischen Aufzeichnungen. 1894. Ljubljana: Krain Landtag, p. 386. as a result of growth spurred by the arrival of the railroad in 1893.Pak, Mirko. 1991. Kočevje. In: Enciklopedija Slovenije, vol. 5, pp. 181–184. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 181. Together with neighboring Hutterhäuser, Gnadendorf was annexed by Kočevje in 1896.Potrjeni zakon. 1896. Novice gospodarske, obrtniške in narodne 54(21) (May 22): 209.
References
External links Location of Gnadendorf (unlabeled) on Geopedia