Official Name: | Rošpoh |
Pushpin Map: | Slovenia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Slovenia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Slovenia |
Subdivision Type1: | Traditional region |
Subdivision Name1: | Styria |
Subdivision Type2: | Statistical region |
Subdivision Name2: | Drava |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Kungota |
Area Total Km2: | 2.28 |
Population As Of: | 2002 |
Population Total: | 236 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 46.6079°N 15.6399°W |
Elevation M: | 264.2 |
Footnotes: | [1] |
Rošpoh (in Slovenian pronounced as /ˈɾoːʃpɔx/; in older sources also Rožpoh,[2] German: Rossbach[2]) is a dispersed settlement in the western Slovene Hills (Slovenian: Slovenske gorice) in northeastern Slovenia. The hamlet of Mali Rošpoh in the northern part of the settlement lies in the Municipality of Kungota.[3] The remaining part of the settlement, which the village was split from in 1982,[4] belongs to the municipality of Maribor.
Rošpoh was attested in written sources in 1250 as am Rosspach (and as im Rospach in 1352, am Rosspach again in 1418, and am Rospach in 1445). The name is originally a hydronym that was transferred to the adjacent settlement. It is derived from the Middle High German compound Rosbach (from ros 'horse' + bach 'creek').[5] In the past the German name was Rossbach.[2]