Laze, Logatec

Laze
Laze
	Laze Location in Slovenia
	Coordinates: 45°51′31.7″N 14°15′53.21″E / 45.858806°N 14.2647806°E
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Inner Carniola
Statistical region	Central Slovenia
Municipality	Logatec
Area
• Total	11.56 km2 (4.46 sq mi)
Elevation	453.5 m (1,487.9 ft)
Population (2002)
• Total	299

Laze (pronounced [ˈlaːzɛ], German: Lase^[2]) is a village south of Logatec in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia.^[3]

Name

The name Laze was originally an accusative plural of the masculine common noun laz 'grassy clearing', referring to a local landscape element. It was later reanalyzed as a feminine nominative plural.^[4] The settlement was known as Lase in German.^[2]

Unmarked grave

Laze is the site of an unmarked grave from the period after the Second World War. The Logarček Shaft Grave (Slovene: Grobišče Brezno Logarček) is located in the woods between Laze and the freeway, about 320 meters (1,050 ft) northwest of the overpass. It contained the remains of a Slovene civilian victim of the December 1945 postwar killings. The remains were removed from the grave under unknown circumstances.^[5]

References

^ Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
^ ^a ^b Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna. 1906. p. 128.
^ Logatec municipal site
^ Snoj, Marko (2009). Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan. p. 228.
^ Ferenc, Mitja (December 2009). "Grobišče Brezno Logarček". Geopedia (in Slovenian). Ljubljana: Služba za vojna grobišča, Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve. Retrieved October 28, 2023.