| Official Name: | Dekmanca |
| Pushpin Map: | Slovenia |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Slovenia |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Slovenia |
| Subdivision Type1: | Traditional region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Styria |
| Subdivision Type2: | Statistical region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Lower Sava |
| Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name3: | Bistrica ob Sotli |
| Area Total Km2: | 2.59 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 109 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Coordinates: | 46.0807°N 15.6298°W |
| Elevation M: | 199.7 |
| Footnotes: | [1] |
Dekmanca (pronounced as /sl/; de|Deckmannsdorf[2]) is a settlement on the right bank of the Sotla River in the Municipality of Bistrica ob Sotli in eastern Slovenia, right on the border with Croatia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included in the Lower Sava Statistical Region; until January 2014 it was part of the Savinja Statistical Region.[3] The settlement includes the hamlets of Graben, Bobovec, and Gmajna.[4]
Dekmanca was attested in written sources in 1351 as Dyͤtmarstorff (and as Dietmarsdorf in 1404, Dietmansdorf in 1426, and Dietmannsdorff in 1480). The name is derived from the German personal name Dietmar or Dietman.[5] Locally, Dekmanca is known as Dekmarca.[4] [5] In modern German it was known as Deckmannsdorf.[2]
There is surface evidence of an Ancient Roman settlement in the Groblje area in Dekmanca. The site has been protected as a national heritage site by the Slovenian Ministry of Culture, but it has not been investigated in any detail so far.[6]
Davjek, a karst spring, is in the isolated karst of Kozje Regional Park (sl|Kozjanski regijski park).[7] The spring measures 1m (03feet) in diameter and continues into a stream, where there is another smaller spring, which is also used for drinking. The stream flows into the Sotla River. The basin itself is about 10m (30feet) long and 8m (26feet) wide. The spring was formed at the contact between the slope and the surrounding plain, at the juncture between permeable limestone and impermeable marl. People have picnics, take walks in the area, and hold small parties near the spring.[8]