Seč (german: Setsch) is a town in

Chrudim District Chrudim District ( cs, okres Chrudim) is a district ('' okres'') within Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Chrudim. Overview The district has mostly flat terrain with slopes of Iron Mountains appearing on the sout ...

in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,700 inhabitants.

Administrative parts

Villages of Hoješín, Javorka, Kraskov, Počátky, Proseč, Prosíčka, Přemilov, Ústupky and Žďárec u Seče are administrative parts of Seč.

Geography

Seč is located about southwest of Chrudim and southwest of

Pardubice Pardubice (; german: Pardubitz) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 89,000 inhabitants. It is the capital city of the Pardubice Region and lies on the Elbe River. The historic centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monu ...

. It lies in the

Iron Mountains The Iron Mountains are a mountain range, subrange of the Blue Ridge Mountains. These mountains are located around the common meeting point of Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina. A portion of the Appalachian Trail runs the crest of the Iron ...

and in the eponymous protected landscape area.

Seč Reservoir Seč Reservoir ( cs, vodní nádrž Seč) is an artificial drinking water reservoir in the Pardubice Region, Czech Republic. It supplies the city of Pardubice and the town of Chrudim and is also an important tourist destination located in the Iro ...

is built next to the town on the

Chrudimka Chrudimka is a river in the Pardubice Region in the Czech Republic. It is a left tributary of Labe, beginning near Hlinsko and flowing mostly northward to the city of Pardubice Pardubice (; german: Pardubitz) is a city in the Czech Republic. It ...

River.

History

The first written mention of Seč is from 1318. The settlement was founded during the colonization of the Iron Mountains in the 12th and 13th centuries. In 1499, Seč became a market town, and in 1853, it was promoted to a town. It lost the town status in 1954, but regained it in 2007.

Demographics

Sights

The landmarks of the town are the Church of Saint Lawrence, built in the Renaissance style in 1610–1620, and the Renaissance castle, which dates from the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries and today serves as the municipal office.

Notable people

* Vincenc Strouhal (1850–1922), physicist

Twin towns – sister cities

Seč is

twinned Twinning (making a twin of) may refer to: * In biology and agriculture, producing two offspring (i.e., twins) at a time, or having a tendency to do so; * Twin towns and sister cities, towns and cities involved in town twinning * Twinning inst ...

with: *

Radzovce Radzovce ( hu, Ragyolc) is a village and municipality in the Lučenec District in the Banská Bystrica Region of Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked c ...

, Slovakia

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sec Cities and towns in the Czech Republic Populated places in Chrudim District