Novi Breg (; german: Neubacher
[''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 38.][Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. ''Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem''. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4.]) is a remote abandoned settlement in the
Municipality of Kočevje
The Municipality of Kočevje (; sl, Občina Kočevje) is a municipality in southern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the city of Kočevje. Today it is part of the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. In terms of area, it is the larg ...
in southern
Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of
Lower Carniola and is now included in the
Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.
Kočevje municipal site
/ref> Its territory is now part of the village of Trnovec.
History
Novi Breg was a village inhabited by Gottschee Germans Gottscheers are the German settlers of the Kočevje region (a.k.a. Gottschee) of Slovenia, formerly Gottschee County. Until the Second World War, their main language of communication was Gottscheerish, a Bavarian dialect of German.
Origins
They ...
. It had 12 houses before the Second World War. On 12 June 1942 member of the Executive Committee of the Liberation Front
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, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovenia, and the Partisan
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Supreme Command met here. There was a large Partisan base on Kamenjak Hill northwest of the settlement, and the Partisan Supreme Command lodged itself in cabins on Royal Rock Hill ( sl, Kraljevi kamen) to the northeast, where they also built several bunkers for use as warehouses. On 14 August 1942, during the Rog Offensive by Italian forces, the Executive Committee and Central Committee members also withdrew to a bunker on Royal Rock Hill. During this time settlement was burned by Italian troops. They remained there until 23 August, and then went to Podlipoglav
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and from there to the Polhov Gradec Hills. The settlement was not rebuilt after the war.
References
External links
Novi Breg on GeopediaPre–World War II list of oeconyms and family names in Novi Breg
Former populated places in the Municipality of Kočevje
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