Luža (; Ferenc, Mitja. 2007. Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na kočevskem. Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, p. 4. or Laknern) is a remote abandoned former settlement in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.Kočevje municipal site Its territory is now part of the village of Komolec.
Name The Slovene name Luža is believed to derive from the Slovene common noun luža 'pond, pool, puddle', referring to a local geographical feature. The German name Lacknern is believed to be of similar origin (cf. German Lache 'pool, puddle').Pintar, L. 1909. "Ortsnamen in Urkunden." Carniola: Mitteilungen des Musealvereins für Krain 2(3/4): 139–142, p. 140. Other explanations connect the German name with Lackner 'settler'Petschauer, Erich. 1980. "Die Gottscheer Siedlungen – Ortsnamenverzeichnis." In Das Jahrhundertbuch der Gottscheer (pp. 181–197). Klagenfurt: Leustik. or with the surname Lackner.Simonič, Ivan. 1935. "Kočevarji v luči krajevnih in ledinskih imen." Glasnik Muzejskega društva za Slovenijo 16: 61–81 and 106–123, p. 73.
History Luža was a village inhabited by Gottschee Germans. It was recorded in the land registry of 1574 as having one full farm divided into two half-farms, and a population between seven and 10. In 1869 and 1880 the village had two houses and a population of 21 and 22, respectively.Ferenc, Mitja, & Gojko Zupan. 2012. Izgubljene kočevske vasi, vol. 2 (K–P). Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, p. 109. The village was abandoned by the beginning of the 20th century.
A logger's cabin remained at the site, but it was burned by Italian troops during the Rog Offensive in the summer of 1942. The cabin was rebuilt after the war.
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External links Luža on Geopedia