Stare Žage (pronounced [ˈstaːɾɛ ˈʒaːɡɛ]; formerly also Stara žaga;[2] German: Altsag,[3] Gottscheerish: Autshug or Aotschock[4]) is a settlement in the Municipality of Dolenjske Toplice in Slovenia.

[7] There was also a restaurant in Stare Žage before the Second World War, run by the Petschauer (Pečaver) family[8] and known as the Gasthaus Felsenkeller (literally, 'rock cellar inn')[9] or Pri bikabirtu.

From 1943 to 1945 Partisan workshops operated in some of the houses, and there were also warehouses for medical supplies and a small electrical power plant.

[7][11] After the war much of the village's architectural heritage was deliberately destroyed and planted over with spruce trees.

[6] Only one Gottschee German farmer remained in the village, and the other residents were laborers that had settled there after the war and were employed in nearby towns.