Gerlinci

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The district of Gerlinci from the southeast

Gerlinci (German Jörgelsdorf , Hungarian Görhegy , also Görlincz ) is a district of the municipality of Cankova and is located in the hilly Goričko in the historic Prekmurje region in Slovenia .

geography

The scattered settlement has 371 inhabitants (2002) and occupies the northern municipal area with an area of ​​5.7 km². The individual groups of houses, farmsteads and parts of the district bear the field names Gobcov Breg, Gugov Breg, Holcar, Lah, Mačka Gasa, Mühič, Partl, Pri Gori, Sombotel, Šömenove Grabe and Vestergomba.

The 98 houses in the village are located along the panoramic mountain road that leads from Cankova via Fikšinci to Rogašovci and are spread over the gentle hills and lowlands between the border river Kutschenitza / Kučnica and the Črnec brook. The village boundary with heights between 240 and 357  m. i. J. , is used exclusively for agriculture and forestry. Fruit plantations and well-tended vineyards thrive on sunny slopes, where the local grape variety, "Gerlinčar", is also grown.

history

The place is mentioned for the first time in 1366: "villa seu possessio Jurgelfalua" . In the same year the two brooks Kutschenitza "prope riuulum Olsinch" and Črnec "iuxta riuulum Chernech" are called. Then part of the settlement and its surroundings to manorial Felsőlendva (Oberlimbach today degrees ) owned by the Hungarian magnate family Széchy was. In 1499 the village was called "Jewrglyncz" .

During the church visitation initiated by the diocese of Raab / Győr , which was carried out by Stefan Kazó , the archdeacon of Eisenburg / Vasvár , in the area of ​​Tótság / Goričko in 1698, the visit to Sveti Jurij / St. Georgen (now Rogašovci) parish settlement named Jurglincz and had 250 inhabitants, 206 Protestant and 44 Catholic .

In 1890 the village was officially called Görhegy and had 717 inhabitants, 560 of whom claimed to be Slovenes , 150 as Germans and 7 indicated a different ethnic group . In 1899 the village received a Hungarian state school. Until the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, the settlement belonged to the Muraszombat district (today Murska Sobota ) of the Eisenburg County .

The Treaty of Trianon gave the village to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes . For the place now officially called "Grlinci" the following data were determined in the census on January 31, 1921: 674 Slovenes, 1 Hungarian and 22 Germans, of these 697 residents all professed to be Catholic.

Personalities

  • Evald Flisar (* 1945), writer, playwright, essayist and editor

literature

  • Matija Slavič, Naše Prekmurje. Murska Sobota, 1999.
  • Ivan Zelko: Zgodovina Prekmurja , Pomurska založba, Murska Sobota, 1996, ISBN 86-7195-203-7 .
  • Miroslav Kokolj, Prekmurski Slovenci od nacionalne osvoboditve do fašistične okupacije 1919 - 1941. Murska Sobota, 1984.
  • Ivan Zelko , Historična Topografija Slovenije I. Prekmurje do leta 1500. Murska Sobota, 1982.

Web links

Commons : Gerlinci  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 46 ° 45 ′ 41.2 ″  N , 16 ° 0 ′ 19.6 ″  E