Official Name: | Prerigelj |
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: | 0 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 45.5532°N 15.0229°W |
Elevation M: | 722.6 |
Prerigelj (pronounced as /sl/; de|Prerigel,[1] Preriegel,[2] or Pröribel[3]) is a remote abandoned former 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.[4] Its territory is now part of the village of Knežja Lipa.
Prerigelj was a village inhabited by Gottschee Germans. Before the Second World War it had 13 houses. In May 1942 the general command of the Partisan Kočevje Battalion met with district and regional functionaries here to prepare plans to take control of the Kočevje region. In June 1942 the settlement was burned by Italian troops. It was not rebuilt after the war.[5]
The village church was a chapel of ease dedicated to Saint Andrew. It contained a chalice that had been donated by Austrian field marshal Ernst Gideon von Laudon.[5] The church was demolished after the war and its stones were crushed to make gravel for the roads.[6]