Seč () is a town in Chrudim District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,900 inhabitants. The town is located near the Chrudimka River in the Iron Mountains.
Administrative division Seč consists of ten municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):
Seč (1,228) Hoješín (108) Javorka (1) Kraskov (217) Počátky (126) Proseč (37) Prosíčka (13) Přemilov (4) Ústupky (36) Žďárec u Seče (125)
Etymology The Old Czech word seč is derived from the verb sekat ('cut', 'chop'). This word denoted a place cut out in the forest (a glade).
Geography Seč is located about southwest of Chrudim and southwest of Pardubice. It lies in the Iron Mountains and in the Železné hory Protected Landscape Area. Seč Reservoir is built next to the town on the Chrudimka River.
History The first written mention of Seč is from 1318. The settlement was founded during the colonisation of the Iron Mountains in the 12th and 13th centuries. In 1499, Seč became a market town, and in 1853, it was promoted to a town. It lost the town status in 1954, but regained it in 2007.
Demographics
Transport There are no railways or major roads passing through the municipal territory.
Sights
The main landmarks of the town are the Church of Saint Lawrence, built in the Renaissance style in 1610–1620, and the Renaissance castle, which dates from the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries and today serves as the municipal office.
Notable people Vincenc Strouhal (1850–1922), physicist
Twin towns – sister cities
Seč is twinned with: Radzovce, Slovakia
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