Back in the 16th century, the area of today’s Hudičevec farm was owned by the Rossetti family, along with extensive estates elsewhere in the Notranjska region. It was then that the baron erected his summer home with a spa, later adding a mill and a sawmill. The mill was operational through 1947 and supplied flour to nine villages in its surroundings.
According to written sources, Baron Rossetti later donated the estate to the Razdrto curate church, which owned it until 1720, when it was purchased by Anton Bole, the ancestor of the family that lives on the land at present and moved to the farm from Slavina. In 1910, Jernej Simčič from Brezje pod Nanosom married into the family and had eight children with Ivana Bole.
The next manager of the farm was Janko, born in 1925, who met his wife Pavla Srebre from Koroška at the farm school in Poljče na Gorenjskem. They married in 1950 and had 5 children. Together with his wife Katja and their own eight children, the youngest, Emilijan Simčič, carries on the farm tourism activities started by his mother Pavla in 1980. |
| Where does the name Hudičevec ("Devil-in-Disguise") come from? |
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This is the legend of Hudičevec:
Baron Rossetti’s housekeeper at this estate was a woman who was said to have feared neither God nor the devil. She always carried a weapon and everyone felt intimidated by her.
One day, the housekeeper fell seriously ill. People of the village brought the priest to see her, but she would not receive him. The priest disguised himself as the devil (hudič in Slovene), thinking that he could come in and see her that way. Unfortunately, the woman thought he really was the devil, who'd come for her soul, so she got scared and shot him. Since then, the place has been known as Hudičevec.
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