Official Name: | Gorenja Bukova Gora |
Pushpin Map: | Slovenia |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Slovenia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Slovenia |
Subdivision Type1: | Traditional region |
Subdivision Name1: | Lower Carniola |
Subdivision Type2: | Statistical region |
Subdivision Name2: | Southeast Slovenia |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Kočevje |
Population As Of: | 2002 |
Population Total: | none |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 45.579°N 15.0593°W |
Elevation M: | 710 |
Gorenja Bukova Gora (in Slovenian pronounced as /ɡɔˈɾeːnja ˈbuːkɔʋa ˈɡɔːɾa/; German: Oberbuchberg[1] [2]) is a remote abandoned 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.[3] Its territory is now part of the village of Bukova Gora.[4]
Gorenja Bukova Gora was a Gottschee German village. It was abandoned in the late 19th and early 20th century, when all its inhabitants emigrated, mostly to the United States.[4] [5] A cabin for forestry workers was later built in the vicinity of the village.[4] Together with Srednja Bukova Gora and Spodnja Bukova Gora, it was merged into the settlement of Bukova Gora in 1955.[6]