Seč (; or Gehack (bei Tschermoschnitz),Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4. Gottscheerish: GəhackPetschauer, 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 in southern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.Novo Mesto municipal site Its territory is now part of the village of Travni Dol.
Name The Slovene name Seč and the German name Gehag, Gehack are semantically identical, referring to cleared land."Stari in mladi Slovenec." 1870. Učiteljski tovariš 10(8) (15 April): 123–124, p. 124. The Slovene common noun seč means 'logged land, lumbering' as does the German common noun and microtoponym Gehack.Hessische Flurnamen. Hessisches Landesamt für geschichtliche Landeskunde. Jung, Irene. 1985. Flurnamen an der mittleren Lahn. Giessen: Schmitz, p. 60.
History Seč was a village inhabited by Gottschee Germans. It was founded relatively late because it was not listed in the Gottschee 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 Second World War 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.
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External links Seč on Geopedia Pre–World War II list of oeconyms and family names in Seč