Plavž () is part of the town of

Jesenice Jesenice (, ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru'', vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 144.) is the tenth-largest town in Slovenia, located in the traditional province of Upper C ...

in the

Upper Carniola Upper Carniola ( ; ; ) is a traditional region of Slovenia, the northern mountainous part of the larger Carniola region. The largest town in the region is Kranj, and other urban centers include Kamnik, Jesenice, Jesenice, Jesenice, Domžale and ...

region of

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. Formerly, it was an autonomous settlement. The name ''Plavž'' means '

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' 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 bloome ...

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

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, particularly in the 1970s, when rows of high-rise

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were built. The northern section of Plavž is also the location of Jesenice General Hospital, the town's largest primary school (Jesenice Tone Čufar 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