Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/mjrl3ux8z9
Tributes to the History of Log Floating on the River Drava in the 19th and the 20th Centuries
Dragutin Feletar
; Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Drava, one of Croatia’s greatest rivers, played a major role for the life of the population in the past. One of the major life functions of the river Drava was the traffic. It was this river that represented the jugular vein connecting the population living alongside the whole basin. One of the most important components of the traffic function was log floating. In the introductory part, the paper tackles the conditions for traffic on the river Drava; following, the history of log floating from the Antiquity to the mid-20th century is presented. Special attention has been paid to the development of log floating on Drava in the period from the end of the 18th century to the mid-20th century, and thorough analysis of the traffic in Slovenian ports from Dravograd to Duplek, and business-distribution ports from Maribor to Đerdap, has been conducted. The paper offers a detailed analysis of the operation of the company Ujlaki-Hirschler i sin in Donja Dubrava, which was the centre of log floating on Drava in the 19th and the 20th centuries. A study has been made of log building and the features thereof, as well as of the life and work of log floaters.
Keywords
log floating; port (landing place); Drava; log floaters’ guild; Donja Dubrava
Hrčak ID:
213842
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Publication date:
23.11.2018.
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