Svečina (, german: Witschein
[''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 4: ''Štajersko''. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 7.]) is a settlement in the western
Slovene Hills
The Slovene Hills or the Slovenian Hills ( sl, Slovenske gorice, german: Windische Bühel or ) is the largest hilly region of Slovenia, a smaller part is located in the Austrian province of Styria. It is situated in the northeast of the country an ...
( sl, Slovenske gorice) north of
Plač
Plač () is a settlement in the Municipality of Kungota in the western part of the Slovene Hills ( sl, Slovenske gorice) in northeastern Slovenia.
The parish church in the village is dedicated to Saint Andrew and belongs to the Roman Catholic Arc ...
in the
Municipality of Kungota
The Municipality of Kungota (; sl, Občina Kungota) is a municipality in the western part of the Slovene Hills ( sl, Slovenske gorice) in northeastern Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , ...
in northeastern
Slovenia
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.
Name
Svečina was attested in historical sources as ''Wetschin'' and ''Wetsine'' in 1197 (and as ''Wetschein'' and ''Baetscheine'' in 1269, among other spellings). Locally, the settlement is known as ''Svičina''. The name may be derived from the common noun ''*věťe'' 'council', with the initial ''s-'' possibly by association with the related word ''svet'' 'advice'.
In the past it was known as ''Witschein'' in German.
Manor
There is a
manor house
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in the settlement. Its foundations date to the 12th century, but the current building is late
Renaissance
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The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD ...
, dating to 1629 with a square
floor plan
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Dimensio ...
and four corner
turret
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* Turret (architecture), a small tower that projects above the wall of a building
* Gun turret, a mechanism of a projectile-firing weapon
* Objective turret, an indexable holder of multiple lenses in an optical microscope
* Mi ...
s. It was built by the monks of
St. Lambrecht's Abbey in
Austria
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. Since 1936 it has been a secondary school, now belonging to the Agricultural College from
Maribor.
Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Svečina include:
*
Andreas Perlach (1490–1551), court astrologer and chancellor of the University of Vienna
[Savnik, Roman, ed. 1980. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 4. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. p. 254.]
References
External links
Svečina on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Kungota
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