Čevica (, in older sources ''Čevice'', german: Tscheuze) is a former village in western

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in the Municipality of Logatec. It is now part of the town of

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. It is part of the traditional region of

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and is now included in the

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Geography

Čevica is located in the center of the Logatec Basin ( sl, Logaška kotlina). It adjoins Brod–Logatec to the south and Dolenji Logatec to the east, creating a continuous urban fabric with them. The Empty Karst Field ( sl, Pusto polje), with fields and meadows on gravelly soil, lies to the north.

History

The village burned in a fire in 1874. During the First World War, a tunnel was excavated by Russian prisoners of war under Naklo Hill in Čevica to serve as part of the rail line from Logatec to Črni Vrh.''Mašinka''. Information sign posted in Čevica, Logatec. The line was used to deliver material to the

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. The tunnel also served as a bomb shelter during the Second World War. During the Second World War, an American B-24 Liberator bomber named ''Double Trouble'' crashed in Kotlice, a wooded area north of Čevica, near the base of Sleme Hill (elevation: ) on February 24, 1944. The bomber had been on a mission to bomb factories in

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, but the aircraft was attacked by German fighter planes en route and caught fire. Five crew members bailed out and survived, and were taken prisoner. The remainder of the crew—four gunners and the pilot, Edwin H. Pries (1918–1944)—were killed in the initial attack and crash. The remains of the bomber and the bodies of its crew were looted by locals, and the dead were buried in Dolenji Logatec. Their remains were initially reinterred in

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in 1946, and then in

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and the United States in 1949. A memorial was installed at the crash site in 2014. Čevica had a population of 326 (in 43 houses) in 1880, 332 (in 50 houses) in 1900, and 416 (in 64 houses) in 1931. Čevica was annexed by Logatec in 1972, ending its existence as a separate settlement.

Church

The church in Čevica is dedicated to

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. It dates from the first half of the 16th century and features an 18th-century fresco of the

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by Franc Ksaver Oblak.

References

External links

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Čevica on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Logatec Former settlements in Slovenia {{Logatec-geo-stub