Stara Sava (; 'old Sava'), also known as Sava, is a formerly autonomous settlement that is now part of the town of
Jesenice, in the
Upper Carniola region of
Slovenia.
History
The settlement was one of several that developed on the banks of the
Sava Dolinka River after 1538, 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 ...
from the
Planina pod Golico area were moved here, closer to a stronger water source. Sava was mentioned as the site of an ironworks by the historian
Johann Weikhard von Valvasor in his
''Glory of the Duchy of Carniola'' in 1689.
The core of the hamlet consisted of a number of buildings connected to the ironworks, the following of which have survived:
*The
Ruard Manor
The Bucellini–Ruard Manor, commonly referred to as the Ruard Manor ( sl, Ruardova graščina), is a 16th-century manor house located in the Stara Sava, Sava neighbourhood of the town of Jesenice, Jesenice, Jesenice in northwestern Slovenia, at th ...
*The
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Roch
*The
Workers' Barracks, a worker's residential building
*Remnants of a historic ironworks, including an intact
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 ...
, its chimney, a mill, and part of the concrete mill trench.
The blast furnace ceased operation in 1897, and the entire area was more or less abandoned as it became trapped amongst the larger facilities of the modern Jesenice Ironworks and cut off from the rest of the town of Jesenice, into which Sava and the neighboring settlements of
Plavž,
Murova, and
Javornik had been amalgamated by royal decree in 1929. The demolition of many obsolescent facilities of the factory during a phase of urban renewal in the 1990s exposed Sava again, and a new city plan for central Jesenice was drawn up, incorporating the historic district back into the town. The entire settlement has been declared a technical monument.
Stara Sava tourist guide, from the Jesenice municipal web site (in English/Slovene)
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References
External links
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(Stara) Sava on Geopedia
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