Kostel & Gottschee

The Auersperg-Turjaški Germanized Slovenian family bought Gottscheers-land just after the piratic Uskoks’ Habsburgian challenge of Adriatic Sea aka Venetian Gulf collapsed in 1620-s. The Uskoks transformed their wrongdoings from their kind of British Drake’s Spanish piracy into local salt smuggling. Half of a century later the beheading of Zrnjski-Frankopan’s conspiracy ended their Bakar (Buccari) Venetian trade which avoided with Habsburgian imperial taxing: it was a kind of competition. As leading Habsburgian diplomat who was dismissed because of his greedy thirst for cardinal’s hat, the first Auersperg prince knew what the Viennese needed: the German bridge through South Tyrol or through Gottscheers-land to Adriatic Sea to challenge the weakened Venetians.

When half of a century after Zrnjski-Frankopan’s conspiracy the father of Maria Theresia declared the free ports of Trieste and Rijeka (Fiume), everybody else also endorsed the need of such a bridge. The prince Auersperg decided: “If I as a pure Slavic guy Germanized myself so well by inventing hoax stories about my ancestors, what’s stopping me of providing the same destiny to my obedient Gottscheers’ subjects? Let’s do it, let’s hire the clever guys to falsify the data about their resettlements from some remote now German places in some remote past, let’s force my Gottscheers to speak some funny dialects nobody could understand except the speakers, let’s spell their Slavic surnames in German ways as Gottscheers-Land is now my Duchy inside the Carniolan Duchy, the state inside the state. The greed seems to be the motor of human endeavours, especially among my white peoples. The science, technology, and similar progresses are just the shadows of our westernized avarice. That rapacity reshaped the history of southern edge of Holy German Empire where I’m the big boss.” The Napoleonic Continental Blockade effectively ruined Auersperg’s Gottscheers-Land bridge for a while. Then the Slovenian Carniola, and Hungarian Rijeka (Fiume) politics questioned success of Auersperg’s bridge, but it collapsed as abortive only after Italian Kingdom revived Venetian Adriatic Gulf after WW1. The prince Auersperg declared his last trump card: “I want the Gottscheers’ independent state like my friend prince Liechtenstein’s one!” He failed and his poor Gottscheers were of no value for him anymore, therefore he sold them well into a Nazi slavery with the greatest profits. After a dozen years that project failed too to force the prince Auersperg to pick up a commoner Top-Cat-Maček as the new Gottscheers-land duke while the Habsburgians were forced to choose the commoner sable champion Tito as their new local emperor. Tito excelled in eastern Russian WW1 front while Hitler failed in western French WW1 front, as both played the same role of uneducated bullies inside a game of great capital of Auersperg-Siemens-Krupp-Volkswagen: Tito and Top-Cat Maček proved to be cleverer in those fencings. The greedy prince Auersperg had to wait for another half of a century to get another political chance through European Union alias the Fifth German Industrial Reich. The prince Auersperg’s greedy annihilation of his during long centuries falsely Germanized Gottscheer subjects created the vacuum in his sold lands where the barbed wires grew instead of crops: to tie the murdered victims of gulag spread all the way to the banks of Uskok’s Kolpa river. An evil that destroyed entire Slovenian nation transformed in barbed wire guardians of Muslim lumpen-proletariat workers waiting to be called into the slaved labour of German industrial complexes. Again, just like in WW2.