Rošpoh, Kungota

Rošpoh
Rošpoh Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°36′28.26″N 15°38′23.8″E
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Styria
Statistical region	Drava
Municipality	Kungota
Area
• Total	2.28 km^2 (0.88 sq mi)
Elevation	264.2 m (866.8 ft)
Population  (2002)
• Total	236
[1]

Rošpoh (pronounced [ˈɾoːʃpɔx]; in older sources also Rožpoh,^[2] German: Rossbach^[2]) is a dispersed settlement in the western Slovene Hills (Slovene: 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.

Name

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]

References

1. Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia Archived November 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
2. Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 4: Štajersko. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 204.
3. Kungota municipal site
4. Marinković, Dragan (1991). Abecedni spisak naselja u SFRJ. Promene u sastavu i nazivima naselja za period 1948–1990. Belgrade: Savezni zavod za statistiku. p. 88.
5. Snoj, Marko (2009). Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan. p. 360.

External links

• Rošpoh on Geopedia