Fužine (; german: Fuschine''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 26.) is a former settlement in the

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in central

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. It is now part of the town of

Kamnik Kamnik (; german: Stein''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 26–27. or ''Stein in Oberkrain'') is a town in northern Slovenia. It is t ...

. The area is part of the traditional region of

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. The municipality is now included in the

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Geography

Fužine lies north of Kamnik, on the right bank of the

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River.

Name

The name ''Fužine'' comes from the common noun ''fužina'' 'forge' (a borrowing from Friulian ''fusine''), which referred to the former ironworks there.

History

The roots of the ironworks in Fužine go back to a permit issued in 1603 to mine iron ore in the area, and the ironworks were established by Joseph Shigan ( sl, Jožef Žigan) in 1735. The last owner of the ironworks was Edmund von Andrioli (1796–1861), who purchased the facility in 1833. The operations became economically unviable after the economic reforms following the

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and when Kamnik acquired a railroad connection 1849, and Andrioli sold the works to the military in 1853. The Austrian army had seized the gunpowder factory in

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, Italy in 1849 and transported the equipment to Fužine, and it then converted the former ironworks into a gunpowder factory in 1853. Fužine was annexed by Kamnik in 1934, ending its existence as an independent settlement.''Krajevni leksikon Dravske Banovine''. 1937. Ljubljana: Zveza za tujski promet za Slovenijo, pp. 184–185.

References

External links

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Fužine on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Kamnik Former settlements in Slovenia {{Kamnik-geo-stub