Seč (; german: Gehag or ''Gehack (bei Tschermoschnitz)'',Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. ''Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem''. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4.

Gottscheerish Gottscheerish (''Göttscheabarisch'',Maridi Tscherne: Wörterbuch Gottscheerisch-Slowenisch. Einrichtung für die Erhaltung des Kulturerbes Nesseltal, Koprivnik/Nesseltal 2010. german: Gottscheerisch, sl, kočevarščina) is an Upper German ...

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

City Municipality of Novo Mesto The City Municipality of Novo Mesto (; sl, Mestna občina Novo mesto) is a municipality in southeastern Slovenia, close to the border with Croatia. The seat of the municipality is the city of Novo Mesto. The municipality of Novo Mesto is part of ...

in southern

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. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. Its territory is now part of the village of

Travni Dol Travni Dol (; german: Drandul,Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. ''Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem''. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4. also ''Drandol'', Gottscheerish: ''Trandul''Petschauer, Erich. 1980. "Die Gottscheer Siedlungen – Ortsnamenv ...

Name

The Slovene name ''Seč'' and the German name ''Gehag, Gehack'' are semantically identical, referring to cleared land. The Slovene common noun ''seč'' means 'logged land, lumbering' as does the German common noun and microtoponym ''Gehack''.Jung, Irene. 1985. ''Flurnamen an der mittleren Lahn''. Giessen: Schmitz, p. 60.

History

Seč 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 was founded relatively late because it was not listed in the

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land registry of 1574 or in the 1770 census. In 1931 it had seven houses and a population of 33.''Krajevni leksikon Dravske Banovine''. 1937. Ljubljana: Zveza za tujski promet za Slovenijo, p. 471. Before the

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the economy of the village was based on farming and selling wood, and the villagers also owned some vineyards. The residents were evicted in 1941 and the village was burned by Italian troops in 1942.

References

External links

Seč on GeopediaPre–World War II list of oeconyms and family names in Seč
Populated places in the City Municipality of Novo Mesto Former settlements in Slovenia {{NovoMesto-geo-stub