Successive number: 012/KKPLACE: NesseltalEVENT: DATE: between 1920 - 1930 ANNOUNCE: Die HeiMAT Koprivnik … a beautiful village this used to be. 2006.PUBLISHER: -PHOTOGRAPHER: unknownNOTES: photo postcard
Theauthorofthepostcardandthedateofitspublicationareunknown.Itwasprobablypublishedinthefirstdecadeoftheprevious century,butletsnotburdenourselveswiththedate.Whenwelookatitwecanseethatthetoppartofthevillage,calledNakl,stands out.Hereistheruralpondor‘kal’,whichservedasawateringholeforthelivestock.Thevillagersprobablyincorporatedtheold Slovenian name ‘kal’ into the German vocabulary. When asked: “Where are you going?” they would answer: “Nach kal”. In1942theItalianoccupatorsburntdownthispartofthevillage,afactstillmadeobviousbyruins,encircledtherestwithbarbedwire and secured the village with bunkers.
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