The former name was a reference to the ethnic German servants living here that worked at the Rakovnik manor farm, owned by the Barbo noble family.

[3][5] Slovene linguists have criticized the change of this name (and other examples of Nemška vas) on the grounds that 'Slovene village' makes no sense in territory where the surrounding villages are also ethnically Slovene,[6] and that it also obscures important information about the history of colonization in Slovenia.

[9] A pear tree avenue that has been protected as a monument of local significance leads to it from the main road.

[2] The castle was mentioned in written sources in the 14th century, passing through ownership of the Aych, Pyrsch, and Schranckler families before being purchased by the Wazenbergs in 1621.

It was then sold to Franz Bernard Lamberg 1723 and to Jobst Weickhard Barbo, Count of Wachsenstein in 1740.