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The First Yugoslav Plywood Factory
The First Yugoslav Plywood Factory (later known as Plywood and Veneer Factory) operated in Sušak, at Podvežica, in the 1930s. Part of the complex has been preserved to this day as part of the Istravino d.d. plant, but none of its many chimneys have survived. According to archival sources, it can be concluded that it was a large industrial plant consisting of an entire complex of buildings with primarily industrial but also residential purposes. In 1938, the factory employed two hundred w ...
Plumbum Factory, Vulkan Factory
The lead smelter, known as Plumbum, was located on Podvežica. The construction began shortly before World War I, when a joint stock company from Frankfurt am Main, Metallverhüttungs- und Chemische Industrie-Aktien-Gesellschaft, bought a building plot from the Podvežica land community. The built complex consisted of nine buildings. During the construction of the smelter, great attention was placed on ecological matters. Aware of the kind of work that takes place at the factory, the owners is ...
Lazaretto in Martinšćica
The St Francis Lazaretto was put into operation in 1833 in Martinšćica. The number of ships passing through the Lazaretto shows how much Rijeka’s Governorate profited from its construction. In the period from 1833 to 1851, passengers of 557 sailing ships passed through the Lazaretto and 119 ships docked at the Lazaretto in the time of cholera in 1870s (from 1873 to 1874). The lazaretto accommodated ships with “clean” and “unclean” bills of health and it used ...
Rijeka’s Brandy and Spirits Steam Plant, Smelter and Chemical Industry
In 1895, the industrialist I. Csillag filed a request for the opening of Rijeka’s Brandy and Spirits Steam Plant. The entire production plant was located on the property of Eugenio Bačić, on Pećine, directly by the sea, beneath the Crown Prince Peter’s Road, today’s street Šetalište XIII divizije no. 28. Although refitted and remodelled, the facility has remained preserved to this day. It is a simple three-storey rectangular building with a series of windows and s ...