Rog (; ,Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. ''Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem''. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4.

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: ''Hoarnwald''Petschauer, Erich. 1980. "Die Gottscheer Siedlungen – Ortsnamenverzeichnis." In ''Das Jahrhundertbuch der Gottscheer'' (pp. 181–197). Klagenfurt: Leustik.) is a remote abandoned settlement in the

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in southern

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. The area is part of the traditional region of

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. Its territory is now part of the village of Trnovec.

Name

Rog () is named after Big Mount Rog (, , ''Hornbühel'', or ''Hornbichl'', 1099 m), the highest elevation in the area. The name of the Kočevje Rog Plateau () is also derived from this mountain. One of the meanings of the Slovene common noun ''rog'' is 'prominent/exposed hill', paralleled by one of the meanings of the German common noun ''Horn'' 'highest peak'.

History

A steam-powered sawmill owned by the Auersperg noble family operated at Rog from 1894 until 1932, employing up to 400 workers.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 23181 The settlement had its own electric plant and waterworks. In 1931 and 1936 the settlement had three houses and 44 residents. After it shut down operations, the facilities were dynamited in 1938 and the 50 km

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was pulled up and sold for scrap.Otterstädt, Herbert. 1962. ''Gottschee: verlorene Heimat deutscher Waldbauern''. Freilassing: Pannonia-Verlag, p. 37. Only three watchmen remained, and they were evicted from the area in the fall of 1941. Today the site, including cisterns and remains of the sawmill, are registered as cultural heritage.

References

External links

Rog (Žaga Rog) on Geopedia
Former populated places in the Municipality of Kočevje {{Kočevje-geo-stub