Cink

Cink
Cink

Location in Slovenia

Coordinates: 45°42′26.39″N 14°58′53.95″E / 45.7073306°N 14.9816528°E / 45.7073306; 14.9816528Coordinates: 45°42′26.39″N 14°58′53.95″E / 45.7073306°N 14.9816528°E / 45.7073306; 14.9816528
Country Slovenia
Traditional region Lower Carniola
Statistical region Southeast Slovenia
Municipality Dolenjske Toplice
Elevation 685.4 m (2,248.7 ft)
Population (2002)
 • Total none

Cink (pronounced [ˈtsiːŋk], also Frata;[1][2] German: Zinken[1][3]) is a remote abandoned settlement in the Municipality of Dolenjske Toplice in southern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.[4] Its territory is now part of the village of Podstenice.

History

Cink was a Gottschee German settlement. In 1924 the forest railway for the sawmill at Rog was extended toward Cink.[5] During the Second World War the Partisans established a political school for the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia at the site,[6][7] which was in operation for nearly a year.[8] From July to August 1942 the command of the Partisan 5th Detachment Group was stationed at Cink[9] after it was relocated from Podstenice, and a party conference was held there from 5 to 7 July[10] or 8 July[11]:219 that year. A logger's cabin or hunting cabin now stands at the site[12] and a plaque was installed on the cabin in 1953.[11]:219

Mass grave

After the Second World War, members of the Slovene Home Guard and other armed groups subordinate to the German forces were killed and buried in a mass grave east of the village known as the Double Shaft by Cink Cross Mass Grave (Slovene: Grobišče Dvojno brezno pri Cink križu). The victims are believed to have been transported to the site from the prison in Novo Mesto.[11]:220 The shafts are located at the crossroads to Cink on the road from Podstenice. The opening is 21 m long, starting below an old beech grove and continuing along a fence.[13][14][15] The bottoms of both shafts are covered by large rocks that fell there from the surface and the entryways to the shafts were dynamited.[16] The grave site is registered as cultural heritage.[17]

References

  1. 1 2 Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 138.
  2. ↑ Heberle, Gregor. 2008. Političnogeografska analiza nekdanjega kočevarskega jezikovnega otoka. Bachelor's thesis. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Geography, p. 19. (Slovene)
  3. ↑ Adresar. I. Splošna naslovna knjiga za Kranjsko. 1912. Ljubljana: Mulley & Kamenšek, p. 15. (Slovene)
  4. ↑ Dolenjske Toplice municipal site
  5. ↑ Brate, Tadej. 1994. Gozdne železnice na Slovenskem. Ljubljana: ČZP Kmečki glas.
  6. ↑ Jarc, Janko. 1967. Partizanski Rog. Maribor: Obzorja, p. 258.
  7. ↑ Šnuderl, Makso. 1994. Dnevnik 1941 - 1945. 2. V partizanih. Maribor: Obzorja, p. 59.
  8. ↑ Godina, Ferdo. 1959. "Podstenice so po krivici pozabljene." Dolenjski list 10(33) (20 August), p. 5.
  9. ↑ Ferenc, Mitja. 1991. "Kočevski Rog." Enciklopedija Slovenije, vol. 5. (pp. 184–185). Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 185.
  10. ↑ "Partizanski Rog." 1959. Dolenjski list 10(33) (20 August), p. 4.
  11. 1 2 3 Ferenc, Mitja, & Gojko Zupan. 2012. Izgubljene kočevske vasi, vol. 2 (K–P). Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani.
  12. ↑ Pot kurirjev in vezistov: Podstenice (Slovene)
  13. ↑ Double Shaft by Cink Cross Mass Grave on Geopedia (Slovene)
  14. ↑ Komisija za reševanje vprašanj prikritih grobišč. 2008. Poročilo Komisije vlade Republike Slovenije za reševanje vprašanj prikritih grobišč: 2005-2008. Ljubljana, Družina, p. 1897.
  15. ↑ Mlakar, Boris. 2003. Slovensko domobranstvo, 1943-1945: ustanovitev, organizacija, idejno ozadje. Ljubljana: Slovenska matica, p. 519.
  16. ↑ Žohar, Saša. 2008. Prostorska problematika urejanja Kočevskega Roga na primeru urejanja kraških brezen kot prikritih grobišč. pp. 28-29. Bachelor's thesis. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Geography.
  17. ↑ Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage reference number ešd 8683

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