![[Gottschee Painting]](RuppeGottschee.jpg)
Ein Gottscheer Bilderbuch
Copyright (c) 1998-Present Arnold R.M. Rom
The above picture of the city was painted by the Gottscheer artist Michael Ruppe
This Web Site is provided and produced by a fellow Gottscheer who wishes to share his memories with other people whose heritage may intersect mine. My name is Arnold Richard Mathias Rom. I was born in the city of Gottschee on March 1. 1933 to Richard Rom and Hildegard Rom (Marek). I live currently in America's Pacific Northwest. I have three adult offsprings: Tristan, Erhard, and Elisabeth. My first wife Eloise passed away in 1979. I remarried in 1994. A photo of my second wife Rose Rom and I (taken on our wedding day) follows:
Please feel free to download and print the photos you find here for your private use. If you intend to publish them, I would appreciate it if you contact me first and get my permission. Thank you!
I will tell you what I remember about my heritage with the help of photographs which I found in my personal photo album. Just click on the following lines to get glimpses of my story:
The Idyllic pre-war Gottschee I saw as a little boy
Picture of last Fasching in Gottschee (1941)
A Pilgrimage in search of the Homeland's spirits
There is also another beautiful and interesting German site produced by Josef Gladitsch from Munich
Visit a new Austrian site by Karl Ruppe: DAS Gottcheer Land
