| Official Name: | Koprivnik |
| 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 |
| Area Total Km2: | 12.03 |
| Population As Of: | 2002 |
| Population Total: | 65 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Coordinates: | 45.6026°N 15.0311°W |
| Elevation M: | 629.6 |
| Postal Code: | 1330 |
| Footnotes: | [1] |
Koprivnik (in Slovenian pronounced as /kɔˈpɾíːwnik/; German: Nesseltal[2] or Nesselthal[3]) is a settlement in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. It was a village settled by Gottschee Germans until 1941. During the Second World War its original population was expelled. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now part of the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.[4]
The Koprivnik volunteer fire department became a founding unit of the Kočevje municipal fire department on 28 August 1955.[5]
The local parish church in the village was dedicated to Saint James and was built in 1622 on the location of a 14th-century church. It was set on fire in 1949 and its ruins totally removed in 1955.[6] A 19th-century chapel built outside the village next to the main cemetery was a dedicated to Saint Anne and was burnt to the ground in 1956. A church was built in its place in 1973.[7] The cemetery is one of only ten in the Kočevje region to have (mostly) preserved the gravestones of the Gottschee Germans. Some of the gravestones have been professionally restored.[8]
Notable people that were born or lived in Koprivnik include the following: