Travnik, Semič Explained

Official Name:Travnik
Pushpin Map:Slovenia
Pushpin Label Position:top
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Slovenia
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Slovenia
Subdivision Type1:Traditional region
Subdivision Name1:Lower Carniola
Subdivision Type2:Statistical region
Subdivision Name2:Southeast Slovenia
Subdivision Type3:Municipality
Subdivision Name3:Semič
Population As Of:2002
Population Total:0
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Coordinates:45.6475°N 15.045°W
Elevation M:844.6

Travnik (in Slovenian pronounced as /ˈtɾaːu̯nik/; German: Scherenbrunn,[1] sometimes Grossberg[2]) is a remote abandoned settlement in the Municipality of Semič in southern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.[3] Its territory is now part of the village of Komarna Vas.

History

Travnik was a Gottschee German village. It was founded after 1558 and initially consisted of one half-farm and two quarter-farms. Before the Second World War there was a hunting and forestry watchman's house here as well as a hunter's blind with a bait area for bears. The village was burned by Italian troops in the summer of 1942 during the Rog Offensive and it was never rebuilt.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4.
  2. Raffelsperger, Franz. 1847. Allgemeines geographisches Lexikon des Oesterreichischen Kaiserstaates, vol. 11. Vienna: Druck und Verlag der k. k. a. p. typo-geographischen Kunstanstalt, p. 723.
  3. http://www.semic.si/ Semič municipal site
  4. Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, p. 62.