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The Neverlake: Water and Land Management in a Dry and Soilless Place

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Manor Rihemberk Župa Štanjel

Figure 8 Demographic Growth in the Rihemberk Manor and in the Štanjel župa
(index 1502 = 100)a
Note a) Estimates based on the number of households (hearths) and holdings in land
registers. The ‘župa’ is a larger unit of rural self-government, which in this case includes
Štanjel itself and some surrounding hamlets
Source Elaboration of data from ASGo, AC-AD, b. 199, fasc. 511; AS 1, VUK, š. 105, fasc.
Lit. R XI-1; StLA, IÖHKS, K. 90, H. 11, f. 29–33

of the lake had only positive effects, as it improved the living conditions
of his subjects and, at the same time, increased their taxes, as they also
had to pay dues for the new gardens.
What was Johann Philipp von Cobenzl like in those days and did an-
ything special happen in Štanjel? In the years before and after he asked
Archduke Ferdinand for the lordship over the community and tabor of
Štanjel and received the assurance that it would indeed be granted to him
(1606-1607), Cobenzl showed great zeal in improving the appearance of
the town, especially its most important buildings, i.e. his castle and the
church. He had the family tomb in the town church renovated in 1603. At
the beginning of the seventeenth century, Philipp von Cobenzl also fin-
ished the already started project of reconstruction of older buildings into
a Renaissance mansion. The works were probably started in 1607. At that
time, on his initiative, the Štanjel bell tower was also built; the construc-
tion works were finished in 1609. The construction of the new bell tower
was led by Master Melichar Fabian, who perhaps also led the construction
of the new wing of Štanjel (Premrl 2007, 13, 52–3; Sapač 2011, 255, 285–8).

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