Knezdol

Knezdol
Knezdol
	Knezdol Location in Slovenia
	Coordinates: 46°11′6.87″N 15°3′15.4″E / 46.1852417°N 15.054278°E
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Styria
Statistical region	Central Sava
Municipality	Trbovlje
Area
• Total	5.57 km2 (2.15 sq mi)
Elevation	658.9 m (2,161.7 ft)
Population (2012)
• Total	256
• Density	46/km2 (120/sq mi)

Knezdol (pronounced [ˈkneːzdɔl]) is a settlement in the Municipality of Trbovlje in central Slovenia. It is made up of clusters of settlement and isolated farmsteads dispersed though the hills north of the town of Trbovlje. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Central Sava Statistical Region.^[2]

Name

Knezdol was first attested in written sources in 1265–67 as in Gravenstůl. The Slovene name is a compound of knez 'duke' and dol 'valley', a calque from the German compound grave 'count' + stuol 'seat'. The name indicates that the area was the property of a count or duke.^[3]

Mass grave

Knezdol is the site of a mass grave from the period immediately after the Second World War. The Hunting Lodge Mass Grave (Slovene: Grobišče za Lovsko kočo) is located about 30 meters (98 ft) west of a hunting lodge in a spruce forest. Human remains were found during excavations in 1980 for a dining room at the lodge. The remains are believed to be those of victims brought to the site from Trbovlje and Hrastnik, and murdered in May and June 1945.^[4]

References

^ "Knezdol, Trbovlje". Place Names. Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
^ "Občina Trbovlje". www.trbovlje.si.
^ Snoj, Marko (2009). Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan. p. 191.
^ Ferenc, Mitja (December 2009). "Grobišče za Lovsko kočo". Geopedia (in Slovenian). Ljubljana: Služba za vojna grobišča, Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve. Retrieved October 6, 2023.