Svečina

Svečina
Svečina Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°40′25.62″N 15°35′32.98″E
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Styria
Statistical region	Drava
Municipality	Kungota
Area
• Total	2.16 km^2 (0.83 sq mi)
Elevation	388.4 m (1,274.3 ft)
Population  (2002)
• Total	154
[1]

Svečina (pronounced [sʋɛˈtʃiːna], German: Witschein^[2]) is a settlement in the western Slovene Hills (Slovene: Slovenske gorice) north of Plač in the Municipality of Kungota in northeastern Slovenia.^[3]

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'.^[4] In the past it was known as Witschein in German.^[2]

Manor

There is a manor house in the settlement. Its foundations date to the 12th century, but the current building is late Renaissance, dating to 1629 with a square floor plan and four corner turrets.^[5] It was built by the monks of St. Lambrecht's Abbey in Austria. Since 1936 it has been a secondary school, now belonging to the Agricultural College from Maribor.^[6]

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^[7]

References

1. Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
2. Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 4: Štajersko. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 7.
3. Kungota municipal site
4. Snoj, Marko (2009). Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan. p. 402.
5. Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number 7773
6. Srednja šola kmetijske mehanizacije Maribor site
7. Savnik, Roman, ed. 1980. Krajevni leksikon Slovenije, vol. 4. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. p. 254.

External links

• Svečina on Geopedia