Plavž () is part of the town of Jesenice in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. Formerly, it was an autonomous settlement. The name ''Plavž'' means '

blast furnace A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper. ''Blast'' refers to the combustion air being "forced" or supplied above atmospheric ...

' in Slovene.

History

The settlement developed in the late 16th century when the

ironworks An ironworks or iron works is an industrial plant where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made. The term is both singular and plural, i.e. the singular of ''ironworks'' is ''ironworks''. Ironworks succeeded bloomeri ...

then located in the Planina pod Golico area were moved here by the Bucelleni family. The Bucellenis built new

s in 1584, a mansion house, and (in 1617) a church dedicated to St. Barbara. In 1774 the blast furnaces in the area were abandoned and the mansion house pulled down. The area reverted to agricultural land until the 1950s, when it was developed as the main residential area of Jesenice during the industrial expansion of the Jesenice ironworks after the Second World War, particularly in the 1970s when rows of high-rise blocks of flats were built. The northern section of Plavž is also the location of Jesenice General Hospital, the town's largest primary school (Jesenice

Tone Čufar Tone Čufar (14 November 1905 – 11 August 1942) was a Slovene writer, a playwright and a poet. Biography Tone Čufar was born in Jesenice as the third son of a factory carpenter. Because of his poor health his parents sent him to work as a ...

Primary School)Tone Čufar Primary School, Jesenice
/ref> and a commercial industrial area adjacent to the railroad tracks.

References

External links

Plavž on Geopedia

Jesenice museum site (in Slovene)

Jesenice municipal site (in Slovene)
Populated places in the Municipality of Jesenice {{Jesenice-geo-stub