Institute
of
Nesseltal
Koprivnik
is
located
in
settlement
in
the
middle
of
Kočevski
Rog.
Private
institute
with
status
of
an
association
is
acting
in
public interest.
Activities,
we
are
performing,
concern
various
fields:
preservation
of
cultural
heritage
of
Gottscheers,
excurisons
in
Kočevski
Rog
with
visits
to
Virgin
forest,
lodging
capacities,
cycling
and
hiking,
different
workshops
and
production
of
homemade
natural
juices
and
vinegar.
On bicycle route we provide support for cyclists.
Koprivnik today
Koprivnik
is
one
of
many
Kočevar
villages.
Even
though,
by
Milko
Kos,
the
settlement
is
first
mentioned
in
writing
with
the
German
name
Nesselthal
in
the
middle
of
the
15th
century,
it
is
sure
to
have
come
into
existence
in
the
second
half
of
the
14th
century,
as
the
independent
Koprivnik
parish
is
mentioned
already in the year 1400.
Let
us
try
to
illustrate
the
regression
of
Koprivnik
with
a
few
statistical
facts.
Going
by
the
last
Austrian
census
in
1910,
the
village
counted
82
houses
and
295
inhabitants.
Of
these
295,
252
choose
German
as
their
colloquial
language,
21
chose
Slovenian
and
22
were
foreigners.
In
the
1937
Gazetteer
of
Dravska
Banovina
Koprivnik
is
mentioned
with
72
houses
and
291
inhabitants.
In
the
Gazetteer
of
Slovenia,
which
uses
information
from
the
1961
census,
it
is
mentioned
with
only
23
houses
and
228
inhabitants.
After
the departure of the Kočevars new settlers came from various parts.
Premises of institute
Institute for preservation of cultural heritage
Like
most
of
Kočevska,
Koprivnik
suffered
during
WWII.
Even
sadder
is
the
fact
that
the
devastation
of
Kočevska,
especially
its
sacral
architecture,
continued
after
the
war.
Both
churches
of
Koprivnik,
the
parish
church
of
St.
Jacob
(burnt
down
in
1949)
and
the
cemetery church of St. Anne (burnt down in 1956), were victims of this devastation. St. Anne was restored in the 1970s.