Verderb

Verderb
Verderb Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 45°32′46.83″N 14°56′48.07″E
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Lower Carniola
Statistical region	Southeast Slovenia
Municipality	Kočevje
Elevation	502.8 m (1,649.6 ft)
Population  (2002)
• Total	0

Verderb (pronounced [ʋɛɾˈdeːɾp]; also Ferderb,[1]: 247  German: Verderb[2][3]) 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.[4] Its territory is now part of the village of Podlesje.[1]: 236–237 

Name

The name of the village, Verderb, is of German origin but its motivation is uncertain. Explanations connect it with the German noun Verderb 'spoilage, deterioration', perhaps referring to a 'forest completely ruined' (i.e., cleared for settlement)[5] or to the complete removal of vegetation for agriculture.[6] The Gottschee German surname Verderber is derived from Verderb, referring to a resident of (or with ancestry from) that village.[7]

History

Verderb was a Gottschee German village. In the Kočevje land registry of 1574, Verderb was listed as a joint settlement with Verdreng with 11 half-farms together. In 1770 Verderb had 10 houses.[1]: 236–237  Before the Second World War the village had six houses. In May 1942 the first Partisan military school was established in the nearby forest. The village was burned by Italian troops in the summer of 1942 during the Rog Offensive and it was never rebuilt.[1]: 247 

Chapel

An early 17th-century village chapel was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and stood on Mount Verdreng (Verdrenška gora; also known as Mount Verderb, Verderbška gora[8]) east of the village. It had a Gothic-style chancel and a wooden ceiling in the nave, and the main altar dated from 1891.[1]: 247  It was demolished between 1952 and 1955.[9][10]

References

1. Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije.
2. Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 38.
3. Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4.
4. Kočevje municipal site Archived April 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
5. Simonič, Ivan (1935). "Kočevarji v luči krajevnih in ledinskih imen". Glasnik Muzejskega društva za Slovenijo. 16: 74.
6. Ferenc, Mitja; Zupan, Gojko (2013). Izgubljene kočevske vasi, vol. 3 (R–Ž). Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani. pp. 183–184. ISBN 9789612375850.
7. Schröer, Karl Julius (1870). Wörterbuch der Mundart von Gottschee. Vienna: K. u. k. Staatsdruckerei. p. 82.
8. Mount Verderb on Geopedia (in Slovene) Archived August 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
9. Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage Archived July 12, 2010, at the Wayback Machine reference numbers ešd 2751
10. Verdreng (Podlesje): Kapela Device Marije na gori / Kapelle der Jungfrau Maria auf dem Berg^[permanent dead link‍] (in Slovene and German)^[dead link‍]

External links

• Verderb (Ferderb) on Geopedia
• Pre–World War II list of oeconyms and family names in Verderb