Polom, Kočevje

Polom (pronounced [pɔˈlɔm] or [ˈpɔːlɔm]; German: Ebenthal[2] or Ebental;[3] Gottscheerish: Ebentou, Ebntol[4]) is a settlement 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]

Polom
Polom is located in Slovenia
Polom
Polom
Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 45°44′21.58″N 14°51′23.66″E
Country Slovenia
Traditional regionLower Carniola
Statistical regionSoutheast Slovenia
MunicipalityKočevje
Area
 • Total7.64 km2 (2.95 sq mi)
Elevation
372.7 m (1,222.8 ft)
Population
 (2002)
 • Total47
[1]

Name

Polom first appeared in written records under its German name, Ebenthal, in 1763–1787. The Slovenian name Polom may be derived from the common noun polom 'place where the wind or snow has felled trees', or from the prepositional phrase pod lomom, literally 'below where a ridge transitions into a steep slope' or 'below a thicket'.[6] The German name Ebent(h)al means 'level valley' and is derived from the geography of the village.[4]

History

Polom was a Gottschee German village. According to the land registry of 1574, Polom had only one and a half full-sized farms, divided into two three-eighths-farms and three quarter-farms,[4][7] corresponding to between 40 and 45 residents. In 1770 there were 26 houses in the village.[4] A part-time school was established in the village in 1858, and a regular school in 1859. Before the Second World War the village had 36 houses and a population of 148.[8] During the Second World War the entire population of the village was evicted, with the exception of one family. There was a Partisan stronghold in the village during the war. Polom was not burned during the war, but it came under aerial bombardment from Italian and German forces, and rocket attacks from Allied forces. No classes were held in the village school between 1941 and 1948. After the war, settlers from various parts of Slovenia moved to the village.[7] The Polom volunteer fire department became a founding unit of the Kočevje municipal fire department on 28 August 1955.[9]

Church
View from north
Chancel
Saint Michael's Church

The local church is dedicated to Saint Michael and belongs to the Parish of Hinje. It dates to the 17th century.[10]

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Polom include:

  • Albin Belar (1864–1939), seismologist[11]
  • Andrej Likar (1826–1865), priest, local historian, and writer[7]

References
  1. Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
  2. Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 40.
  3. Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4.
  4. Petschauer, Erich. 1980. "Die Gottscheer Siedlungen – Ortsnamenverzeichnis." In Das Jahrhundertbuch der Gottscheer (pp. 181–197). Klagenfurt: Leustik.
  5. Kočevje municipal site
  6. Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 320.
  7. Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, p. 238.
  8. Krajevni leksikon Dravske Banovine. 1937. Ljubljana: Zveza za tujski promet za Slovenijo, p. 224.
  9. Gasilska zveza Kočevja: Zgodovina Archived 2011-06-01 at the Wayback Machine (in Slovene)
  10. Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number ešd 2151
  11. Ferenc, Mitja, & Gojko Zupan. 2012. Izgubljene kočevske vasi, vol. 2 (K–P). Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, pp. 232–237.
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