Gerlinci

Gerlinci ( German Jörg Sindelsdorf, Hungarian Görhegy, also Görlincz ) is a district of the municipality Cankova and is located in the hilly Goricko in the historical region of Prekmurje in Slovenia.

Geography

The scattered settlement counts 371 inhabitants ( 2002) and occupies an area of 5.7 km ² the northern municipality area. The individual groups of houses, farmsteads and district parts carry the field names Gobcov Breg Breg Gugov, Holcar, Lah, Mačka Gaza, Mühič, partl, Pri Gori, Sombotel, Šömenove grave and Vestergomba.

The 98 houses of the village are located along the panoramic high road leading from Cankova about Fikšinci after Rogašovci and spread over the rolling hills and lowlands between the Grenzflüsschen Kutschenitza / Kučnica and the Črnec -Bach. The village district with altitudes 240-357 müa. , Is used exclusively agricultural and forestry. On sunny slopes thriving orchards and cultivated vineyards, where the indigenous grape variety, the " Gerlinčar " is grown.

History

The village was first mentioned in the year 1366: "villa seu possessio Jurgelfalua ". In the same year, the two streams Kutschenitza " prope riuulum Olsinch " and Črnec " iuxta riuulum Chernech " called. At that time the settlement and its surroundings belonged to the basic rule Felsőlendva ( Oberlimbach, today degrees) which was owned by the Hungarian magnate family Széchy. In 1499 the village was then named " Jewrglyncz ".

When initiated by the Diocese of Raab / Gyor Church Visitation, which was conducted by Stefan Kazo, the Archdeacon of iron castle / Vasvár, in the area of ​​Tótság / Goricko in 1698, contributed to Sveti Jurij the / St. Georgen ( now the town Rogašovci ) eingepfarrte settlement the name Jurglincz and had 250 inhabitants, 206 Protestant and 44 Catholic.

In 1890 the village was officially called Görhegy and had 717 inhabitants, of whom 560 declared themselves as Slovenes, 150 as German and 7 gave to another ethnic group. 1899 was the village of a Hungarian state school. The settlement belonged to the collapse of the Austro -Hungarian monarchy to the chair district Muraszombat (now Murska Sobota ) the Eisenburger County.

The Treaty of Trianon struck the village to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. For now officially " Grlinci " said location the following data were recorded in the census on January 31, 1921 determined: 674 Slovenes, 1 Hungarian, 22 German, of these 697 residents, all known to the Catholic faith.

Local personalities

• Evald Flisar (* 1945), writer, playwright, essayist and editor.