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Stara Sava, the main square. From the left to the right, the Ruard Manor, Assumption of Mary Church, the Worker Barracks
Location in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°25′57″N 14°03′26″E / 46.43250°N 14.05722°E / 46.43250; 14.05722
Country	Slovenia
Traditional region	Upper Carniola
Statistical region	Upper Carniola
Municipality	Jesenice

Stara Sava (pronounced [ˈsaːʋa]; '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 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 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, 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.

References

1. Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
2. Paper on the church at Old Sava on Jesenice municipal site (in Slovene)
3. Stara Sava tourist guide, from the Jesenice municipal web site (in English/Slovene)

External links

• Media related to Stara Sava at Wikimedia Commons
• (Stara) Sava on Geopedia

v t e Municipality of Jesenice
Settlements	Administrative seat: Jesenice Current Blejska Dobrava Hrušica Javorniški Rovt Kočna Koroška Bela Lipce Planina pod Golico Plavški Rovt Podkočna Potoki Prihodi Slovenski Javornik Former Javornik Murova Plavž Podmežakla Stara Sava
Landmarks	Golica Javornik Falls Jesenice Train Station Karawanks Tunnel (motorway) Karawanks Tunnel (railway) Kos Manor Mežakla Plateau Plavž Memorial Park Podmežakla Hall Pristava House Ruard Manor Upper Sava Museum Vintgar Gorge Workers' Barracks Zois Park
Places of worship	Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Roch's Church Holy Cross Church Jesenice Mosque St. Leonard's Church Sts. Ingenuin and Albuin Church St. Stephen's Church
Notable people	Miha Baloh Helena Blagne Tone Čufar Anton Dežman Tomaž Ertl Jože Gregorčič Miran Hladnik Anže Kopitar Thomas Luckmann Miha Mazzini Vencelj Perko Jaka Torkar Matija Verdnik Andrej Žvan

• Jesenice, Jesenice