Stročja Vas

Stročja Vas
Stročja Vas Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°30′32.88″N 16°13′33.43″E
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Styria
Statistical region	Mura
Municipality	Ljutomer
Area
• Total	2.42 km^2 (0.93 sq mi)
Elevation	190.6 m (625.3 ft)
Population  (2002)
• Total	490
[1]

Stročja Vas (pronounced [ˈstɾoːtʃja ˈʋaːs]; Slovene: Stročja vas, in older sources also Stročja Ves,^[2] German: Schützendorf^[2]) is a village in the Municipality of Ljutomer in northeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria and is now included in the Mura Statistical Region.^[3]

Name

Stročja Vas was attested in written sources in 1438 and 1443 as Schuetzendorf (and also as Schüczendorff in 1443 and as Schuczendorf in 1468). The Slovene name is derived from the adjective *strelьčьja (via *streočja), thus originally meaning 'shooter's village'. This is confirmed by the medieval German transcriptions, which are a compound of Middle High German schütze 'shooter' + dorf 'village'.^[4] In the past the German name was Schützendorf.^[2]

Chapel

The local chapel in the centre of the settlement was built in the Neo-Gothic style in 1866 on the foundations of an older plague column. It was renovated in 1999.^[5]

References

1. Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
2. Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 4: Štajersko. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 184.
3. Ljutomer municipal site
4. Snoj, Marko (2009). Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan. p. 399.
5. Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number 23687

External links

• Stročja Vas on Geopedia