Ograja (pronounced [ɔˈɡɾaːja]; in older sources also Na Gradu[2] or Nagrad,[3] German: Suchenreuter[4] or Suchenreuther[2]) is a 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.[5] It no longer has any permanent residents.[1]

Ograja
Ograja is located in Slovenia
Ograja
Ograja
Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 45°32′9.27″N 14°53′2.77″E / 45.5359083°N 14.8841028°E / 45.5359083; 14.8841028
Country Slovenia
Traditional regionLower Carniola
Statistical regionSoutheast Slovenia
MunicipalityKočevje
Area
 • Total2.87 km2 (1.11 sq mi)
Population
 (2012)
 • Total0
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History

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Ograja was a Gottschee German village. The village was founded after 1498; in the land registry of 1574 it consisted of a full farm divided into two half-farms. Before the Second World War the village had nine houses. The original inhabitants were expelled in November 1941. Several of the houses then fell into ruin, but of the remaining five houses, three were still inhabited in 1971.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. ^ a b Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 40.
  3. ^ Special-Orts-Repertorium von Krain. 1885. Vienna: Alfred Hölder, p. 9.
  4. ^ Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4.
  5. ^ Kočevje municipal site Archived April 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Savnik, Roman (1971). Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. pp. 234–235.
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