Sava (Jesenice)
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Sava, today more commony known as Stara Sava (Old Sava) is a settlement that is part of Jesenice in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. The settlement developed on the banks of the river Sava Dolinka after 1538 when the ironworks from the Planina pod Golico area were moved here, closer to a stronger water source. Sava was depicted as an ironworks by Janez Vajkard Valvasor in his Glory of the Duchy of Carniola in 1689.
The core of the hamlet Sava was made up of a number of buildings connected to the ironworks the following of which have survived: the Bucelleni-Ruard manor-house, the church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, a worker's residential building known as the Kasarna, remnants of the blast furnace, the blast furnace chimney, a mill, and part of the concrete mill trench[1]. The blast furnace stopped operating in 1897 and the entire area was more or less abandoned as it became trapped amongst the larger facilities of the modern ironworks and cut off from the rest of the town of Jesenice, until the shutting down of many departments of the factory and a new urban plan for Jesenice in the 1990s. The entire settlement has been declared a technical monument. The manor-house was built in the first half of the 16th century by the Italian, Bernardo Bucelleni. In 1766 a Belgian enterpreneur Victor Ruard bought the entire estate and restored the ironworks. In 1831 the house was expanded and reconstructed in the Neoclassical style. From 1954 it is the seat of the Jesenice Museum[2] with a permanent exhibition on the history of ironworks in region as well as a paleontological collection. An ethnographic collection is on display in the Kasarna residential block, entireley renovated in 2005, which also houses the Jesenice music school.
The church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Roch, originally dedicated only to the Assumption of the Virgin was built by the ironworks owners Julius and Orfeus Bucelleni. It is the first example of jesuit architecture in Slovenia. The nave with a plaque with its date of 1606 still preserved its original features. The choir was expanded and raised in the late 17th century. Three altar pieces painted by the Venetian artist Nicola Grassi from the church (The Assumption of the Virgin, Mary of the Rosary with St Dominic and St Francis[3], St Anthony of the Desert with an unknown early christian martyr) were all restored in 1961 and again in 1992. There are a number of other oil paintings in the church.
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