The area of Zagorje ob Savi community spreads over 147 km2, it has 17,107 inhabitants.Zagorje started with its industrial development when coal was discovered. First known licence for coal-mining was issued in 1755, after the year 1888, when Zagorje coal mine joined with Trboveljska premogokopna druzba, Zagorje began to turn into an industrial city. Toplice, a mining settlement, developed glazier’s workshop, zinc smelting plant and separation. The second part of the settlement was first agrarian, settled on a sunny side terrace around the church. Workers’ families lived in simple workers’ hostels, which grew at the margin. After 1928, when the glazier’s workshop was closed, the settlements started to develop towards the railway station and Toplice. In Selo, Dolenja vas and Podvine settlements of one-family houses started to grow. In the period till the 2nd World War the surrounding was mostly rural, bigger settlements grew in Loke, Izlake and Cemsenik.
The community began to develop after the 2nd World War with the growth of new industrial plants, which were developed in Zagorje coal mine. The majority of them is the pillar of the economy still today; in the last few years smaller and successful companies joined them due to development of business. In 1952 Zagorje became a city and got also today’s territorial rounding. After the year 1995 and 240-year tradition of coal mining the process of closing began. Because of this process the township tries hard to improve the financial conditions, the consequences of mining and to replace the posts, that community is losing with the mine-closing. For Zagorje community and its further development, the year at the end of Millenium is strongly connected with the mine-closing, with searcing for new perspectives and developmental possibilities.
Zagorje ob Savi was one of the most polluted towns in Slovenia. The pollution is caused by long-continued energetics, industry and local heating system with fossil fuels, and never the less, by the natural characteristics – a very closed valley. To clean the air, as much as possible, Zagorje ob Savi was among the first in Slovenia, which in 1993 granted a licence on building a gas infrastructure and its management. The conssesion was granted for 30 years. Till today, approximately 610 housekeepings, 6 public buildings and 5 big industry users have been connected to this gas system.
In the project REMINING LOWEX, the community wants to study thoroughly the possibility of exploitation of available local cources of energy, like:
The extention of the remote heating system from the city boiler house to wood biomass with cogeneration. The grid extention is necessary because of the new swimming pool, and therefore, an additional connection of the existing multifamily houses and industry.
The use of warm minewater well for heating the new youth centre in the renewed rooms of the former mine bathrooms and the Tone Okrogar Primary School.
The reconstruction of some older multifamily houses in the neighbouring Polje in the centre of Zagorje. It includes the reduction of heating losses in buildings and connecting them to remote heating system of the municipal boiler house.
The use of waterwell in Farcnikova kolonija (colony) in Zagorje for cooling the near business buildings and planned swimming pool.
The community began to develop after the 2nd World War with the growth of new industrial plants, which were developed in Zagorje coal mine. The majority of them is the pillar of the economy still today; in the last few years smaller and successful companies joined them due to development of business. In 1952 Zagorje became a city and got also today’s territorial rounding. After the year 1995 and 240-year tradition of coal mining the process of closing began. Because of this process the township tries hard to improve the financial conditions, the consequences of mining and to replace the posts, that community is losing with the mine-closing. For Zagorje community and its further development, the year at the end of Millenium is strongly connected with the mine-closing, with searcing for new perspectives and developmental possibilities.
Zagorje ob Savi was one of the most polluted towns in Slovenia. The pollution is caused by long-continued energetics, industry and local heating system with fossil fuels, and never the less, by the natural characteristics – a very closed valley. To clean the air, as much as possible, Zagorje ob Savi was among the first in Slovenia, which in 1993 granted a licence on building a gas infrastructure and its management. The conssesion was granted for 30 years. Till today, approximately 610 housekeepings, 6 public buildings and 5 big industry users have been connected to this gas system.
In the project REMINING LOWEX, the community wants to study thoroughly the possibility of exploitation of available local cources of energy, like:
The extention of the remote heating system from the city boiler house to wood biomass with cogeneration. The grid extention is necessary because of the new swimming pool, and therefore, an additional connection of the existing multifamily houses and industry.
The use of warm minewater well for heating the new youth centre in the renewed rooms of the former mine bathrooms and the Tone Okrogar Primary School.
The reconstruction of some older multifamily houses in the neighbouring Polje in the centre of Zagorje. It includes the reduction of heating losses in buildings and connecting them to remote heating system of the municipal boiler house.
The use of waterwell in Farcnikova kolonija (colony) in Zagorje for cooling the near business buildings and planned swimming pool.
