Jelenja Vas (; , in older sources Jelena vas,Special-Orts-Repertorium von Krain. 1885. Vienna: Alfred Hölder, p. 9. formerly also Iskrba,Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba SlovenijeFerenc, Mitja. 2007. Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4. Intelligenzblatt zur Laibacher Zeitung, no. 141. 24 November 1849, p. 26. or Hirschgruben,Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 40.Statistische Zentralkommission. 1919. Spezialortsrepertorium von Krain: Bearbeitet auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Volkszählung vom 31. Dezember 1910. Vienna: Verlag der K. K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, p. 10. Gottscheerish: HirisgruəbəPetschauer, Erich. 1980. "Die Gottscheer Siedlungen – Ortsnamenverzeichnis." In Das Jahrhundertbuch der Gottscheer (pp. 181–197). Klagenfurt: Leustik.) is a hamlet of the village of Štalcerji in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. Formerly, it was an independent settlement. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.Kočevje municipal site
Name The Slovene name Jelenja vas literally means 'deer village' and is derived from the Slovene common noun jelen 'red deer'.Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 75. Jelenja Vas was formerly called Iskrba in Slovene, derived from the German name. The standardized German name Hirschgruben, as well as the local German name Hirisgruben and the Gottscheerish name Hirisgruəbə, are semantically similar and all mean 'deer hollow' (cf. German Hirsch 'deer', Gottscheerish hiris 'deer'Schröer, Karl Julius. 1870. Wörterbuch der Mundart von Gottschee. Vienna: K. u. k. Staatsdruckerei, p. 109.), thus referring to the local fauna.
History Jelenja Vas was a village settled by Gottschee Germans. In the land registry of 1574 it consisted of one farm divided into two half-farms, corresponding to a population between seven and 10. In 1770 it had three houses. It had a population of 24 in 1880,Gozdnogospodarski načrt gozdnogospodarske enote Kolpa 2003 – 2012, p. 23. but this fell to only 8 in 1910. Before the Second World War there were three houses in the village and a population of 12.Krajevni leksikon Dravske Banovine. 1937. Ljubljana: Zveza za tujski promet za Slovenijo, pp. 217–218. The economy of the village was based on farming and transporting wood. In the time of the Drava Banovina, it was part of the Municipality of Kočevska Reka in Kočevje County (Srez Kočevje). The village was burned during the Second World War. In 1971 the only building at the site was a hunting lodge. An air-quality monitoring station is located at Jelenja Vas.Air quality data at the Iskrba monitoring site
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Jelenja Vas on Geopedia Pre–World War II map of Jelenja Vas with oeconyms and family names