{"id":33993,"date":"2025-07-08T15:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vremeplov.ba\/2025\/?p=33993"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:08:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:08:31","slug":"history-of-the-ilijas-misoca-forest-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vremeplov.ba\/2025\/en\/2025\/07\/08\/history-of-the-ilijas-misoca-forest-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Ilija\u0161-Miso\u010da Forest Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Written by: Sre\u0107ko Ignjatovi\u0107<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This work and the text in the first part represent an attempt and serve the purpose of presenting a more accurate and faithful picture of the industrialization of the town of Ilija\u0161, covering the period from the Austro-Hungarian administration (1878-1918), the Kingdom of SHS\/Yugoslavia (1919-1941), and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945-1992), with a particular emphasis on the development and exploitation of forests in the Miso\u010da river valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In approaching this quite complex matter correctly and aiming to achieve relevant results, based on original materials and acceptable original information, we will look through examples of the rise of two companies: “F. Steinmetz & Co.” (1886-1917) and “Buttazzoni & Venturini” (1890-1945), both from Sarajevo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The primary literature for this work includes books:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Branislav Begovi\u0107, 1978. \u201eRazvojni put \u0161umske privrede u Bosni i Hercegovini u periodu austrougarske uprave (1878\u20141918) sa posebnim osvrtom na eksploataciju \u0161uma i industrijsku preradu drveta\u201c,<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Branislav Begovi\u0107, 1985 \u201e\u0160umska privreda Bosne i Hercegovine za vrijeme monarhisti\u010dke Jugoslavije (1918.-1941.) s posebnim osvrtom na eksploataciju \u0161uma i industrijsku preradu drveta. Sarajevo\u201c,<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. D\u017eevad Juzba\u0161i\u0107, 1974.<\/em> <\/em>\u201eIzgradnja \u017eeljeznica u Bosni i Hercegovini u svjetlu austrougarske politike od okupacije do kraja K\u00e1llayeve ere\u201ci<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Web portal vremeplov.ba, Li\u010dni arhivski fond.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    By occupying Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, Austria-Hungary gained possession of significant natural resources, among which were forests. In order to secure the necessary financial revenues for the state treasury, the Austro-Hungarian administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina initially focused on selling individual forest areas through direct agreements and long-term contracts with certain companies and entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Based on free agreements, long-term contracts for forest exploitation were concluded in two forms: exploitation of oak and beech forests with manufacturing production, and exploitation of forests within the framework of erars forest management operations (B. Begovi\u0107, 1978).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    One such agreement (with manufacturing production) was concluded with the private company “F. Steinmetz & Co.” in 1886, and within the framework of Erar's forest management operations with the company “Buttazzoni & Venturini” in 1898. Before we proceed to the main topic, allow us to briefly outline the business biography of the company “F. Steinmetz & Co.”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The company “F. Steinmetz & Co.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Franz Steinmetz (senior) and Franjo Steinmetz (junior) migrated from Austria to Sarajevo in 1886. In the same year, they registered a company called \u201cF. Steinmetz & Co.\u201d at the Sarajevo municipal court, with the declared activity \u201cTrading in wood for construction and fuel.\u201d The company's headquarters and residence address were registered on \u010cemalu\u0161a Street, and the wood storage (Holzplatz<\/em>) in Kolodvorska Street (Bahnhofstra\u00dfe<\/em>) within the Ferhadija city settlement. (Source: Bosanski Glasnik, 1902).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Most of the necessary timber was supplied from their own sawmill, with a smaller part obtained through auction or direct contracts with owners of other enterprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Company “F. Steinmetz & Co.” – Mo\u0161\u0107anica Sawmill near Vasin Hana, Sarajevo<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In 1886, the company built a water-powered sawmill on the Mo\u0161\u0107anica River near Vasin Hana. This was also the first sawmill built on the Mo\u0161\u0107anica River. The sawmill was designed to operate on water power and was very primitive, essentially functioning as a ‘stream’ sawmill in the full sense. Namely, water was diverted through a special ‘jazz’ (trough) to the sawmill, falling through a wooden ‘badanj’ (a barrel without a bottom) onto a small wooden wheel that turned around a horizontally placed wooden axle. Attached to this wooden axle was the so-called ‘gega’ (synonym \u2013 jumps, climbs, moves), made of wood and consisting of a shaft with a set and long poles, which raised and lowered the frame of the ‘harness’ (frame) on which a Venetian blind gear was mounted, that is, a steel saw about 0.5 cm thick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The annual capacity of this sawmill could not exceed more than 100 m\u00b3 of softwood timber. The sawmill timber was procured through auctions from the Vu\u010dja Luka region, that is, from the Kalina \u2013 Bio\u0161tica forest area. Due to the difficult transportation of forest timber to the sawmill and the high cost of transporting cut lumber to the warehouse in the city, the company decided to sell the sawmill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Nezir Had\u017eija purchased the Nevedenu sawmill, and Ismet \u0160ljaka bought it from him, who transferred the sawmill (1918) to steam power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The last owner was Nedeljko Stoki\u0107 (born in 1933), who installed a full gate with an installed steam engine of 55 HP in that sawmill, in addition to a Venetian blind. (B. Begovi\u0107 1978. ABH FD\u0160S \u2013 Household Register of Small Local Sawmills, Folio 60-61).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Enterprise \u201cF. Steinmetz & Co.\u201d \u2013 Sawmill in Srednji near Sarajevo<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Towards the very end of the nineteenth century, the company built its first water-powered sawmill near the Ra\u010d stream (a left tributary of the Ljubina river) at Srednje. During the construction of the sawmill, a Venetian gate was installed and put into operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Later, with the signing of the forest exploitation contract with the State Government (1901), a second gate was also installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The necessary logging for the company was supplied from the forest area of Ra\u010da \u2013 Kalina (Laza and Lipnik forests) with an annual capacity of about 2,400 m\u00b3 of processed coniferous wood. The logs were transported to the sawmill using water wooden ‘ri\u017ea’ (W\u00e4ssriger Holzreis), and the sawmill products were transported by forest-mining narrow-gauge railway to Semizovac, or to Sarajevo, to the lumber storage in Ferhadija. The sawmill operated until the end of 1917, when it was sold, at which point it was bought by Danilo \u0106orovi\u0107 from Sarajevo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    In 1922, near the mouth of the Raca stream into the Ljubina river, Luka \u010cabraji\u0107 will build a steam-powered sawmill, and in March 1926, he registers it with the company “Ozren” \u2013 Forest Industry Ltd. Central. One of the shareholders was Danilo \u0106orovi\u0107, who contributed his water-powered sawmill to the newly established company, which he had previously purchased from Franz Steinmetz. (B. Begovi\u0107 1985.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Company “F. Steinmetz & Co.” – Tar\u010din near Sarajevo<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In 1901, the company “F. Steinmetz & Co.” will sign a long-term contract with the National Government for the exploitation of the Preslica forest area \u2013 Lapov Dol \u2013 Lani\u0161te near Tar\u010din. The subject of the contract was the logging of about 80,000 m\u00b3 of coniferous and 50,000 m\u00b3 of beech usable timber, along with the by-products of firewood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Due to financial difficulties, the company was unable to proceed with the implementation of the concluded contract. This situation lasted for about two years, during which the State Government issued a warning to the company with a justification for terminating the contract if immediate action on exploitation was not taken; otherwise, it would lose its concession rights, as stipulated in the relevant contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In the newly arisen situation, the company enters into ‘business’ negotiations with the newly established firm “Rafael Z. Finci & Co.” (founded in 1902, with co-owners Ellas Baruh and Isak Baruh), which in 1903 will ‘buy out’ and transfer to itself the contract from 1901 regarding the long-term exploitation of the contracted forest area that was once owned by the company “F. Steinmetz & Co.” The company will soon build a forest railway line combining adhesion (10.6 km) and gravitational (5.4 km) railway tracks (cogwheel railway) with a length of approximately 16.0 km, running from Tar\u010dina through Guvni\u0161ta to Lani\u0161te and Lapov Dola. Simultaneously, the company erected in Tar\u010din a steam sawmill powered by a 200 HP engine, equipped with four gater machines along with all other machinery and devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In 1911, the company “Rafael Z. Finci and Co.” will be transformed into a joint-stock company called The Shareholders’ Company for the Exploitation and Export of Wood “Jela,” which continued to implement the contract from 1903. (B. Begovi\u0107 1978.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    From this brief fragmentary overview of the operations of the company “F. Steinmetz & Co.,” it can be concluded that the company had very limited capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Although the contractual area and the location of Tar\u010din relied on the state railway Sarajevo \u2013 Metkovi\u0107 (built in 1891), establishing a sawmill and constructing a railway line for this company was a huge investment project that they could not realize. Interestingly, a similar business mistake happened to the company in 1910.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Certainly! Here's your translated section:\n\n\nNamely, the State Government for Bosnia and Herzegovina and the company “F. Steinmetz & Co.” will sign a long-term contract for the exploitation of the Miso\u010da forest area near Ilija\u0161, lasting 15 years. Since the company did not proceed with the implementation of the signed contract after two years, the state treasury will initiate a legal dispute in the competent court in Sarajevo. As a result of the settlement regarding the legal dispute, the company, now operating as “Inokosno Company F. Steinmetz,” will merge (form a business alliance) with the company “Buttazzoni and Venturini.” (Source: Branislav Begovi\u0107, 1978.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The company “Buttazzoni and Venturini,” observing the Sarajevo district and beyond, was one of the strongest and most successful economic entities in the wood-processing industry. Below, we will briefly outline the biography of the operations of this mentioned company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cButtazzoni and Venturini\u201d – Arrival in Sarajevo and Business Registration<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In 1885, Peter Buttazzoni, a carpenter by profession, and Ivan Venturini, a carpenter and machinist from Italy, migrated to Sarajevo and registered the company “Buttazzoni and Venturini,” with an initial capital of two million crowns, with a clause that each shareholder signs for themselves. The primary activity was the production of building carpentry and furniture, as well as exporting goods abroad. With this starting capital, they built a steam sawmill in Sarajevo (near Ko\u0161evski Stream) and a carpentry factory (“Tischler Warenfabrik”) with a warehouse for sawed timber (“Holzplatz”) and firewood. The address registered for residence, along with the factory, is in Kolodvorska Street (“Bahnhofstra\u00dfe”) in the municipal area of Ferhadija. (Source: Bosanski Glasnik, 1902).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    “Buttazzoni i Venturini” – construction of a sawmill in Sarajevo and expansion of activities<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In 1898, the company will construct a steam sawmill (S\u00e4gewerk<\/em>) in the ‘settlement’ of Ko\u0161evo along the Ko\u0161evo Stream, as well as a factory for building carpentry and furniture, employing 120 workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The industrial plant consisted of: a steam engine with a power of 50 HP, two gaters, four circular saws, twenty installed woodworking machines (bandsaw, planers, routers, thicknessers, grinders, veneer peeling machine, presses, etc.). The machines were predominantly operated by foreign workers with work experience, while local workers performed lower-skilled tasks (assistants in machine operation) and heavier physical labor. (D\u017eevad Juzba\u0161i\u0107, 1974.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    In 1890, instead of the name Carpentry Goods Factory (Tischler Warenfabrik<\/em>), it was renamed Furniture Factory (M\u00f6belfabrik<\/em>). The product range includes: windows, doors, portals, retail equipment, ship floors, square solid furniture of all styles, oak friezes, veneers, crown moldings, and a variety of other carpentry accessories and special furniture in an oriental style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Thanks to the visionary educational support of the then regime, generations of artisans in woodcarving were educated, and their techniques were perfected to the point of unrecognizability. Many of the graduating artisans found employment with the well-established furniture manufacturer “Buttazzoni i Venturini” in Sarajevo and Mostar. Namely, the company opened a branch in Mostar in 1886 and built a smaller furniture factory (workshop), registered in 1891, employing up to 35 workers. Hand-carved furniture pieces from the Mostar factory (pe\u0161kuni, chairs, sofas, etc.) were exhibited at fairs and exhibitions in Budapest in 1896, Paris – the Millennium Exhibition in 1900, Milan in 1906, winning a gold medal, Turin in 1911, gold medal, etc. (Source: Bosanski Glasnik 1915.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    It is worth mentioning one of the pioneers of woodcarving-entrepreneurs at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gano Nik\u0161i\u0107 from Konjic. He learned the technique of carving (flower-shaped borders and other shapes) from already trained craftsmen, later developed and perfected this technique, and then passed it on to his son. He established a ‘company’ in Konjic in 1927, which still exists today. Additionally, Konjic woodcarving was inscribed on UNESCO\u2019s list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity in November 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cButtazzoni and Venturini\u201d – Forest exploitation in the forested area of the Pova\u010da stream basin<\/u><\/strong>   <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    For continuous operation, the constructed sawmill in Sarajevo (Kosevski Stream) was supplied with the necessary sawn timber from the erarski management operations of the Forest Administration Sarajevo, from the contractual forest area in the Pova\u010da stream basin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In 1898, through a free agreement, the company “Buttazzoni and Venturini” signed a long-term contract with the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the exploitation of 40,000 \u2013 60,000 m\u00b3 of coniferous timber in the forests located in the gravitational basin of the Pova\u010da stream, a right tributary of the Ljubina River. These forests were also designated and reserved for utilization under the management of the forest administration in Sarajevo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    This year, at the confluence of the Pova\u010da stream into the Ljubina river, the company will build a water-powered sawmill with one installed Venetian gate. Part of the timber mill's lumber was processed in this sawmill, and the remaining processed lumber was transported by rail (Ljubina \u2013 Semizovac \u2013 Sarajevo) to the storage yard of the steam sawmill in Sarajevo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    After the ten-year period (1908), the company was granted an additional 30,000 m\u00b3 of coniferous useful wood from the same contractual area through a subsequent agreement, for a duration of three years (until 1911). During the term of the contract (1898-1911), the company harvested approximately 80,000 m\u00b3 of coniferous wood, which through processing yielded about 35,000 m\u00b3 of sawn timber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Most of the sawn timber was used in its own furniture factory, while a smaller portion was subject to export abroad. (D\u017eevad Juzba\u0161i\u0107, 1974.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Construction of the Company's Forest Road “Ljubina \u2013 Pova\u010da”<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    For the transportation of cut forest timber to the sawmill, the company built a gravity track (cog wheel railway) with a length of 7.3 km, consisting of 7.2 km of the ‘main’ track and 0.10 km of branch track, under the working name “Ljubina \u2013 Pova\u010da.” This branch track led from the sawmill to the junction with the mine railway Vogo\u0161\u0107a \u2013 \u010cevljanovi\u0107 (which was put into service on January 26, 1885). This railway was owned by the mining cooperative “Bosnia” (Gewerkschaft Bosnia<\/em>) until mid-1896, when it was purchased in favor of the state treasury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    From this junction, the line continued along a state railway approximately 1500 meters to the Ljubina railway station. From Ljubina station, the train compositions were dispatched to Semizovac station, about 9.5 km away, where it connected with the ‘mainline’ railway Bosanski Brod \u2013 Sarajevo (which was opened for traffic in 1882).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The cutting mass for the sawmill was transported using twenty “truck”<\/em> wagons, with strong axles of 70 mm in diameter, capable of carrying around 7 tons of cargo. The value of the investment was approximately 60,000 crowns. (Source: Forest Railways of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1911. Reported by: Gyula Sztehlo, Chief Engineer of the Forest Department of the Royal Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina. pp. 1002-1016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The purpose of presenting the above data is to finally clarify the longstanding mystery surrounding the name of the gravity rail line “Ljubina \u2013 Pova\u010da.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Namely, during the drafting of the rail construction protocol (manuscript, 1898), an official person illegibly wrote the data “Pora\u010da,” and during the protocol registration at the competent ministry, another person writes “Pra\u010da” on the cover of the main file. The handwritten text (with the name Ljubin \u2013 Pra\u010da) is sent to the Ministry of Public Finances for review and approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    When printing the booklet “Report on the Administration of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1914-1916” (Bericht \u00fcber Verwaltung von Bosnien und Herzegowina 1914-16<\/em>), the responsible editor enters the data “Ljubina \u2013 Pra\u010da.” Later, this information will be adopted and listed in many book editions, which will cause significant confusion for researchers and will attribute the mentioned “gravitational railway” to the forest railway “Ilija\u0161 \u2013 Miso\u010da \u2013 Okruglica.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Allow us to move on to the main topic of this interesting story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cButtazzoni and Venturini\u201d – Integration with the company \u201cF. Steinmetz & Co.\u201d<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    As already mentioned above in the text, the first interest in the exploitation of the forest area in the Miso\u010da river basin was shown by the company “F. Steinmetz & Co.” In 1910, the company signed a fifteen-year contract with the Provincial Government for the exploitation of the specified forest area. After two years, due to passivity in the realization of the contracted forest area exploitation, the signed contract became the subject of a court dispute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Based on the lawsuit claim, the company defended itself by stating that the failure was a consequence of a lack of financial resources and that it had been unable to obtain the necessary loan. The prosecution proposes that the Court Panel annul the relevant contract on the grounds that the company is incapable of further executing the contract and that it deliberately entered into the purchase based on speculative motives, with the intention that through resale and transfer of the contract and contractual areas, they could easily make a profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    How the company “Buttazzoni and Venturini” was left without the necessary forest raw materials (executing a thirteen-year exploitation of the forest area in the Pova\u010da river basin, 1898-1911) they were interested in exploiting the forest in the forest area of the Miso\u010da basin. Knowing that the forest area was the subject of a court dispute, they established ‘business’ contact with the company “F. Steinmetz & Company” with a proposal to integrate into a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In order to avoid damaging his business relationship, and unable to rely on his success in the lawsuit, Franz Steinmetz approaches the court with a proposal for settling the case through a judicial settlement, explaining that his company (“Inokosno preduze\u0107e F. Steinmetz”) has been integrated into the joint-stock company “Buttazzoni and Venturini.” Since the achieved court settlement has the same legal force as a court judgment, the joint-stock company immediately purchases from F. Steinmetz the exploitation contract for the Miso\u010da forest area, which he purchased in 1910. This agreement satisfied the provincial government because, in the executed transaction, it gained a stronger contractual ‘counterparty’ (German: Kontrahent \u2014 opposing party, other contractual side) that provided greater guarantees regarding the fulfillment of contractual obligations and ensuring regular and continuous income. (D\u017eevad Juzba\u0161i\u0107, 1974.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cButtazzoni and Venturini\u201d – Wood Industry Inc. – Construction of the sawmill in Ilija\u0161 and the steam-powered forest railway on the Ilija\u0161 – Miso\u010da route<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In 1912, a joint-stock company was established under the name  <\/u><\/strong>\u201cButtazzoni and Venturini\u201d – Wood Industry Ltd. (Buttazoni und Venturini Holzindustrie A.G.<\/em>) in Sarajevo, created through the integration of the companies \u201cButtazzoni and Venturini\u201d and the Inocuous enterprise \u201cF. Steinmetz.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The joint Ministry of Finance in Vienna approved this transaction in 1913. The subject of the agreement was the harvesting of wood mass in the Miso\u010da forest area (2,446 hectares), amounting to 365,700 m\u00b3 of conifers and 47,000 m\u00b3 of broadleaf trees, which would be felled within 15 years with an annual etate<\/em> (Etate<\/em> – the forest area planned for harvest) of 24,000 m\u00b3 of net coniferous wood and 3,100 m\u00b3 of broadleaf wood. (Source: Branislav Begovi\u0107, 1978.- ABH- ZMF no.,3.307, no. 8.180 and no. 11.500\/BH ex 1910; ABH- ZMF no. 14.135\/BH ex 1911.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The fundamental capital of the established joint-stock company is 2 million crowns. The members of the company's management are: Nikola Berkovi\u0107, G\u00e9za Stux, Ademaga Me\u0161i\u0107, Petar Buttazzoni, Ivan Venturini, Franz Steinmetz, \u0110or\u0111o R. Jovanovi\u0107, \u0160abanovi\u0107 Asimaga, and Karl K\u00f6zer as the authorized signatory. (Source: Bosanski Glasnik, 1915)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    We note that F. Steinmetz did not contribute a water-powered sawmill, which he had built near the Ra\u010da stream at Srednji, to the newly established joint-stock company. He sold the sawmill in 1917, the same year he definitively leaves Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The joint-stock company immediately began constructing a steam sawmill in Ilija\u0161 in 1912, which was equipped with a 100 HP steam engine, four full Venetian-type gates, one small cut gate, seven circular saws, and other auxiliary machines suitable for wood processing. Likewise, to facilitate the transportation of timber mass to the constructed sawmill, a forest railway line on locomotive power was built, connecting \u201cIlija\u0161 \u2013 Miso\u010da,\u201d with a length of 32 km, which connected to the main line Bosanski Brod \u2013 Sarajevo. (Source: Bosanski Glasnik 1915.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The locomobile fleet on this forest road was operated with two locomotives each with 70 HP, 48 ‘truck’<\/em> cars, and three passenger cars (steel frame with wooden box) for transporting materials and workers. For one of the cars, additional work was performed on the interior, converting it into a ‘salon car’<\/em>, which was used by management members and VIP guests. The costs during the construction of this forest railway, including the procurement of the rolling stock, amounted to about one million crowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    “Buttazzoni and Venturini” – Wood Industry Inc. – Exploitation of the Miso\u010de Forest Area from 1913 to 1918<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Construction of the forest railway began in 1912. The start of the route was located in front of the sawmill's storage yard and extended across the state railway infrastructure to the Ilija\u0161 station. In this area, a track (about 200 meters long) will be built, which will be technically connected to the main line (profile at km 20.5) Sarajevo \u2013 Bosanski Brod. Parallel to the main line, the route led (towards the Podlugovi station) across a newly built bridge over the Miso\u010da River, then in a wide arc to the right along the right bank of the mentioned river, then shortly along the left bank all the way to the settlement of Miso\u010da.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The route continued alongside the settlements of Mahmutovi\u0107a Rijeka, Nasi\u0107i, Tisovik, Nabo\u017ei\u0107, all the way to the settlement of Okruglica, with a track length of approximately 20 km. An extension of the track (with a branch line) of 12 km was built in 1913. The minimum radius of the forest railway was 40 meters, with a maximum incline of up to 50 \u2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    A station building with bypass tracks (loading tracks), a locomotive turntable with a boiler room, a water supply station, and a workers’ canteen will be constructed in the Circular Area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The first work locomotives were: Locomotive of series (boiler number) 1697, manufactured in 1911 at the factory Arn. Jung \u2013 Jungenthal b. Kirchen<\/em>, and locomotive of series (boiler number) 3813, produced in 1912 at the factory Maffei<\/em> \u2013 Munich<\/em>. In addition to the forest railway built, the company also constructed about three kilometers of ‘dry rice’ (Trockener Reis<\/em>) and about nine kilometers of roads for hauling wood, to facilitate the transportation of timber from the forest to the depot along the ‘main’ railway line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The exploitation of the Miso\u010da forest area began only in 1913. Due to circumstances and events surrounding the so-called Balkan crisis and partially mobilization of manpower (1913), as well as the outbreak of World War I (1914), the company\u2019s regular operations were hindered. By the end of Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1918), the company had harvested and taken only 46,100 m\u00b3 of coniferous wood (26% of the contracted cut) and 5,400 m\u00b3 of deciduous wood (about 22%), of which 3,000 m\u00b3 was for fuel. (B. Begovi\u0107 1978 – ABH- ZMF no., no 8.254 and 9.070\/ BH ex 1914; no 8.307\/BH ex 1916.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    “Buttazzoni and Venturini” – Industry of Wood Ltd. – (Todorovi\u0107 and Dohan trading and industry of wood), Sarajevo<\/u><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Following the end of the war and the defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, on December 1, 1918, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (SHS) was established, which included Bosnia and Herzegovina. With the change in the state organization, a series of laws were enacted aimed at the comprehensive transformation of foreign capital into state ownership. During the enforcement of legal regulations concerning the sequestration of the assets of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (until June 1919) and nationalization (1922), the joint-stock company “Buttazzoni & Venturini” managed to evade actual nationalization in the new political-economic situation and was granted rights to continue operations. The provincial government was pleased with this outcome, as it urgently needed financial resources to sustain the funding of state institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    After all long-term contracts were canceled in 1919, in 1922 there was a consensual renewal of the old contracts (from 1910 and 1913, each lasting 15 years) and the signing of a new long-term agreement with the shareholding company “Buttazzoni and Venturini,” with modifications to the forest tax and the contract\u2019s duration extended until 1933.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    During the contract period (11 years), the joint-stock company “Buttazzoni and Venturini” utilized approximately 500,000 m\u00b3 of coniferous and around 100,000 m\u00b3 of deciduous wood within its contractual area, processed at its sawmill plant in Ilija\u0161. (B. Begovi\u0107, 1985.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    As previously mentioned, “Buttazzoni and Venturini” – Wood Industry Inc. had built 32 km of forest railway powered by steam by 1914. Continued exploitation of the contractual area from 1922 onward saw the forest railway extended to new forest districts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Insight into the archival documentation (Report on Forest-Industrial Railways within the Territory of the State Railways Sarajevo, June 1926<\/em>), the company “Buttazzoni i Venturini” – Forest Industry Ltd., based on recorded data, states regarding the forest railway “Ilija\u0161 \u2013 Miso\u010da”: Extension of the line towards the forested area Bla\u017ee (Zvijezda Mountain) 5.850 km., the branch line from profile at km 32+340 Kaljavi Stream with a length of 3.400 km., and extension with a geared railway to the Ravnje site with a length of 2.100 km., the branch line from profile at km 34+120 Rakov Stream with a length of 1.100 km., the railway network within the territory of Strugare 0.650 km., and the connecting track between the Ilija\u0161 station and the main (Bosanski Brod \u2013 Sarajevo) railway in a length of 0.200 km, totaling approximately 45.300 km. (Source: Archives of BH \u2013 D.\u017d.S. 1926. No. 16027\/I – 1926).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Sale of “Buttazzoni and Venturini” property in Ilija\u0161 to the company Todorovi\u0107 and Dohan \u2013 Wood Trading Industry<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    After the expiration of the contractual period (1934), the company “Buttazzoni and Venturini” – Wood Industry Ltd. sold its sawmill facility in Ilija\u0161 as well as the upper machine of the forest railway line Ilija\u0161 \u2013 Miso\u010da (45.3 km), including the entire rolling stock. The buyer was the company “Todorovi\u0107 and Dohan” – wood trade industry, sawmill Mokro, founded in 1925. Co-owners of this company were Vaso Todorovi\u0107 and Herman Dohan, both from Sarajevo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In Mokrom, in the Sarajevo District, the company “Todorovi\u0107 and Dohan” built a steam sawmill in 1925, which was equipped with a 200 HP steam engine, three full gang saws with several circular saws, and other auxiliary machines. The sawmill was supplied with round timber (through bidding) from state forests in the Romanija and Kalina \u2013 Bio\u0161tica areas. (B. Begovi\u0107, 1985.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The company built a forest railway called “Romanija,” with a length of 6,500 km (from Mokrug to the village of Kr\u0161ulje, in the Veliki Vrh forest area) and connecting tracks within the territory of the Palama sawmill, along with a connecting track from the sawmill to the Koran station, approximately 1,950 km long. (Source: BH Archive \u2013 D.\u017d.S. 1926. No. 16027\/I – 1926).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In 1935, the forest management in Okruglica was established, covering an area of approximately 12,000 hectares along the Miso\u010de River basin and part of the basin of the Small \u017di\u017eanska River. Since the organizational structure of the aforementioned management included regulatory activities, the company “Todorovi\u0107 i Dohan” purchased the Ilija\u0161 \u2013 Miso\u010da forest railway track (in 1938), along with its entire rolling stock. With this acquisition, the forest management became fully autonomous in its operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Pilansku oblovinu, the company \u201cTodorovi\u0107 i Dohan\u201d regularly purchased it through bidding, initially on a fixed wagon at an accumulation yard along the forest railway in Miso\u010da, and later at the free storage yard of the sawmill in Ilija\u0161. This situation persisted until the outbreak of the April War in 1941. (B. Begovi\u0107, 1985.; ABH FD\u0160S no. 14.277 under Ex 1929. Kut. 118.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The company “Buttazzoni and Venturini” – Wood Industry AD continued the production of furniture and other wood products, processing wood in the existing sawmill in Sarajevo. The furniture showroom was located at 25 Vojvode Radomira Putnika Street (later at Dr. Ante Star\u010devi\u0107 Street, 1941-1945), and it remained in this location until the end of World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


    Forest Track “Ilija\u0161 \u2013 Miso\u010da” in the Vortex of War 1941 \u2013 1945.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In April 1941, the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina was occupied by the German Wehrmacht. With the aid and under the protection of the occupying forces, the so-called Independent State of Croatia was proclaimed, which, within the newly formed state, also included the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Germany's wartime economy was very interested in raw materials and products from the Central Bosnian basin. Of strategic importance were rich forested areas connected by industrial railway lines, Zavidovi\u0107i – Olovo, as well as Podlugovi – Vare\u0161, and the forest railway lines Ilija\u0161 – Okruglica and Semizovac \u2013 Ivan\u010di\u0107i.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    As early as April 1941, the Department of Military Economy and Armament of the Third Reich showed interest in having individual enterprises directly serve the needs of the German army, such as the Ironworks in Vare\u0161, Munitions Plants \u2013 Vogo\u0161\u0107a near Sarajevo, and “Jugo\u010delik A.G.” in Ilija\u0161. (more about this in the next chapter, op. a.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In 1941, a legal regulation was issued by the Ministry of Forests and Mines, which terminated all long-term forest contracts until devices, as stated, sawmill installations and transportation equipment with a fleet, are not removed and maintained in operable condition. The implementation of the enacted legal regulation was overseen by a commissioner appointed on behalf of the same ministry. The commissioner supervised the operation of the sawmill and the organization of forest railway traffic \u201cIlija\u0161 \u2013 Miso\u010da\u201d. (Source: Laws \u2013 Legal regulations and orders, Book I – Volume 1-10, from April 11 to May 26, 1941.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Following the outbreak of the uprising in mid-1941, the sawmill in Ilija\u0161 operated at reduced capacity, while traffic on the forest railway was completely halted. The cause of these events is attributed to the presence of the Vare\u0161 partisan detachment “Zvijezda,” which, in collaboration with two formed squads on Okruglica, successfully carried out combat missions in the areas of Semizovac, Srednjak, \u010cevljanovi\u0107i, Okruglica, and Vare\u0161. After securing these areas, the most important task of the “Zvijezda” detachment was to prevent production for the occupier in this industrial region and to disrupt traffic on numerous communication routes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    At the beginning of January 1942, the Supreme Headquarters of the Yugoslav Partisans arrived in the territory of the Vare\u0161 Detachment “Star,” with ‘comrade’ Tito, along with units of the First Proletarian Brigade (formed in Rudo on December 22, 1941). The Supreme Headquarters settled in \u010cevljanovi\u0107i, where it remained from January 5 to 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    On January 7th and 8th, 1942, in Ivan\u010di\u0107i near Srednjak, the Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina held a conference attended by the highest leaders of the KPJ, Josip Broz Tito, Edvard Kardelj, Mo\u0161a Pijade, and others. On the free territories of Srednjak and Okruglica, people's liberation councils were established as organs of authority and place commands, serving as military authorities. The first commander of the position in Okruglica was Milan \u0110ur\u0111i\u0107 from Kunosi\u0107i, and in Srednjak, Trifko Doki\u0107 from Vogo\u0161\u0107a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Near the house (the railway station) in Okruglica, where the Battalion Headquarters and the local command were located, there was a hospital, a tailor's workshop, and in the forest railway's boiler room, a communal kitchen was organized. The supply network was collected in VisoKo and the surrounding villages and transported by caravans across Vlahinja, Slivno, Mahmutovi\u0107i River to Okruglica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    At the beginning of May 1942, heavy fighting broke out between Chetniks and Partisans in the area of Srednji and Okruglica, resulting in Chetnik units taking control of these regions on May 4. In October 1943, units of the 17th Strike Division of the NOVJ captured Vare\u0161 and destroyed the high furnace of the ironworks as well as mining facilities. (Source: Achievements and overcoming difficulties in the development of the National Liberation War, October 1941 \u2013 November 1943, Book III, Sarajevo 1979.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    At the end of March 1945, the liberation operation of Sarajevo and its wider surroundings was initiated by the Yugoslav Army. By April 4, 1945, Vare\u0161 was freed. After intense fighting, on April 6, the resistance of the Germans and members of the so-called NDH was broken, and Sarajevo was liberated. On the same day, Semizovac and Ilija\u0161 were liberated, and by April 10, Visoko and Kakanj.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Construction of the “Jugo\u010delik” Foundry in Ilija\u0161<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    As the most significant plant of the military industry in Bosnia and Herzegovina, there was the Military Technical Institute in Sarajevo with the workshop “Pyrotechnics,” established in 1929, which on January 1, 1936, became part of the Military Technical Institute in Kragujevac. From 1938, the institute was modernized and expanded, and funded the construction of a mint for artillery parts and rifle barrels in Ilija\u0161 (“Jugo\u010delik” A.G. Ilija\u0161), as well as a factory for manufacturing artillery ammunition, which began operations in 1939.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    “Yugo\u010delik” A.G. was founded in June 1938. Its composition, besides the mint in Ilija\u0161, included \u017deljezara Zenica (established in 1892), the Ironworks and Metallurgy Vare\u0161 (established in 1895), and the Coal Mine in Breza (which began operating in 1907). Although formally controlled by local capital, the company was primarily raised with German capital (“Hermann G\u00f6ring Werke” \u2013 ironworks in Zenica and Vare\u0161), so for Germany, establishing such a company meant creating the groundwork for exploiting the ‘Balkan’ raw material base and planned expansion of German military-industrial capital. (Historical Thought, 1st edition, Tuzla, 2015, Pages 113-156. Salkan U\u017ei\u010danin).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The factory in Ilija\u0161 will build a network of railway tracks that will rely on the main line at the Podlugovi station. The necessary construction wood (japija, shrapnel, etc.) was supplied from the sawmill in Ilija\u0161. It can be confidently stated that the investment in building the mint in Ilija\u0161 was the initial spark of a ‘small’ industrial revolution in this area, which resulted in urbanization that grew around the factory and the old sawmill built long ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In 1938, in the village of ‘Gornja’ Vogo\u0161\u0107a, the construction of a factory for military purposes will take place, invested solely by Czech capital from the companies “\u0160koda” and “Eumeko.” For the transportation of raw materials, semi-finished products, and workers, now the “\u0160koda” factories will build an industrial railway (gauge of 760 mm), from the factory premises to the Semizovac train station, approximately 4 km long, which is still (as of 2022) operational with a standard track gauge.\nIn 1940, it will be integrated with the Military Technical Institute in Sarajevo under the name “Ammunition Plants” – Vogo\u0161\u0107a near Sarajevo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    After the April War (1941), “Pyrotechnics” in Sarajevo ceased operations, and based on negotiations between the representatives of Wehrmacht (the Department for Economy of the German 2nd Army in Sarajevo, ed. a.) and the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), in August and November, its machinery and equipment were allocated to factories in Vogo\u0161\u0107a and the Ironworks in Zenica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    During 1940, a casting plant for artillery barrels was built in Ilija\u0161 by the German company “Krupp” (The German factory Friedrich Krupp AG was one of the major suppliers of weapons and military equipment during World War II, among others). The following year, the foundry facilities were dismantled and transported to Germany. The reason includes some speculation about the poor quality of iron ore from Vare\u0161 and manganese ore from \u010cevljanovi\u0107i. Primarily, the cause was frequent sabotage by insurgents (blowing up railroads and bridges), which intermittently halted regular transport of ore, thereby questioning the profitability of the foundry. The dismantled parts of the Ilija\u0161 foundry plant ended up in the steel mills in \u0160tore and Ravne in Slovenia.     
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    At the beginning of 1942, the foundry and pressing plant in Ilija\u0161\u5b8c\u5168 takeover and are managed by German engineering teams. During 1943, due to constant sabotage by partisans on the railway lines and aerial bombardments by the Allies, the Zeni\u010dka and Vare\u0161 ironworks completely ceased production. This also led to the suspension of operations in the workshops in Sarajevo, Vogo\u0161\u0107a, and the factory in Ilija\u0161. (Seka Brklja\u010da, Military Industry in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Military-Economic Interests of Nazi Germany, UNSA \u2013 Contributions 28, 1999, pp. 189-201).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Development of Industry in Ilija\u0161 After the End of the War in 1945<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Immediately after liberation (1945), the steam mill with transportation infrastructure and vehicles “Todorovi\u0107 i Dohan” in Ilija\u0161 was subjected to ‘state coercion’<\/em>, i.e., property was confiscated and turned into state ownership, later (1948) being nationalized and transformed into social ownership. During the reconstruction of the liberated land and the implementation of the five-year plan (The Five-Year Development Plan of the National Economy in FNRJ for the years 1947\u20131951, op. a.), the mill in Ilija\u0161 would make a significant contribution to the production of construction carpentry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In 1950, the “Basic Law on the Management of State-Owned Enterprises and Higher Economic Associations by Workers’ Collectives”<\/em> was enacted, popularly known as the Law on Factory Management by Workers. With this law, the social ownership of the company \u0160.I.P. “Bosna” \u2013 Ilija\u0161 was concentrated in the hands of the immediate producers, which was seen as a kind of beginning of the “self-management model,” which would become the central ideological element of Yugoslav socialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    By expanding capacity and increasing production, the company “Bosna” transforms into the Wood Industry Combine as an independent basic organization of joint labor within the framework of \u0160.I.P. “\u0160IPAD” Sarajevo \u2013 the Wood Industry Combine “Bosna” Ilija\u0161. In its organizational form, the combine conducts primary production (logging and processing of roundwood) up to the manufacturing of final products (construction carpentry, prefabricated houses, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    With the construction of a standard-gauge track (Omladinska Railway \u0160amac \u2013 Sarajevo, in 1947), from the Ilija\u0161 station to the company's storage yard, the same gauge track will be laid and connected to the main railway. That same year, by connection of Ilija\u0161 to the ‘city’ electrical network, sawmill and factory machinery will be powered by ‘industrial’ electricity. The industrial railway track will be dismantled together with the tracks of the Ilija\u0161 – Miso\u010da forest railway in 1965.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    By the decision of the District Economic Court in Sarajevo dated February 19, 1973, the company operates under the same name but without the status of a legal entity, based on the Self-Management Agreement on the Association of OOURs (Basic Organization of Cooperative Labor, etc.). As a result, all rights and obligations of the previous company “Bosna” are transferred to the company Forest Industry Company “\u0160ipad” Sarajevo. (Source: \u0160ipad joint-stock company Sarajevo, Historical excerpt from the court register dated April 17, 2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In the mid-1980s, the Yugoslav economy transitions to a ‘market economy’, meaning a shift from a planned-market economic system through social ownership to a decentralized economic organization. A turning point in the ‘economic organization’ will occur with the adoption of the Law on Enterprises in 1988. Following these events, the company “Bosna” separates from “\u0160ipad” and registers under the name of the Socially-Owned Company of the Wood Industry “Bosna” \u2013 Ilija\u0161, with its main activity in the production of modular houses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Ironworks Ilija\u0161<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In 1945, the Military Technical Institutes Sarajevo, with Vogo\u0161\u0107a and Ilija\u0161, were placed under the administration of the Ministry of People\u2019s Defense. That same year, VTZ from Sarajevo moved to Vogo\u0161\u0107a and changed its name to VTZ “Tito,” and in 1947, it received a new name, “Tito” Enterprise Sarajevo, operating under this name with the abbreviation “PRETIS.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Until 1952, the facilities of the defense industry from Ilija\u0161 are relocated to the “Tito” Company in Vogo\u0161\u0107a. With this move, within the Ironworks in Ilija\u0161, conditions were created for the construction of a Foundry (Ilija\u0161 Foundry, founded in 1952) and its commissioning (in 1954), producing water and sewer pipes. Through rapid industrialization and increased production, especially in iron manufacturing, the company was renamed the Ironworks “Ilija\u0161.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In the 1950s, a period of rapid development began during which the municipality of Ilija\u0161 experienced swift industrialization related to woodworking processing by the \u0160.I.P. “Bosna” factory and the exploitation and processing of iron at the “Ilija\u0161” ironworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    At that time, both of the aforementioned economic centers employed around 4,000 workers, so there was one employee in nearly every household. This situation persisted until the outbreak of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992), resulting in a complete cessation of production, and later (1995) due to significant devastation of the industrial plant, ironworks, and workshop halls of \u0160.I.P. “Bosna,” many former workers will be left unemployed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Information about Industrial Locomotives<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Finally, a few words about the data on steam locomotives that operated on the Ilija\u0161 \u2013 Miso\u010da forest railway. According to the Inventory of Industrial Locomotives by the Railway Directorate in Sarajevo from 1932 (with amendments up to March 1940), and which were in service in Ilija\u0161, owned by the companies \u201eButtazzoni and Venturini\u201c Industrial-Trade Inc. and \u201eTodorovi\u0107 and Dohan\u201c are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Locomotive of series (boiler number) 1697, manufactured in 1911 at the factory Arn. Jung \u2013 Jungenthal b. Kirchen<\/em>. This locomotive, 0-4-0 with four coupled axles, was the first locomotive acquired for the Ilija\u0161 – Miso\u010da forest railway. Namely, according to the protocol dated June 14, 1912, a test drive was performed over a distance of 12 km and all technical parameters were satisfied. (BiH Archive, File 2498\/1912, code 182-23). In 1915, the War Ministry (K.u.K. Kriegeministerium in Wien<\/em>) mobilized the locomotive ‘for military purposes’ and sent it to Bosanski Brod for the construction of the narrow-gauge railway line Bosanski Brod \u2013 Slavonski Brod \u2013 Sibinje. According to data from the 1932 census, it was sold in 1936 to the firm B\u00f6hmische Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Feldbahnbedarf GmbH<\/em>, Prague, with headquarters in Vinkovci. We have no further information about the fate of this locomotive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Locomotive of series (boiler number) 3813, manufactured in 1912 at the Maffei<\/em> factory \u2013 Munich.<\/em> Work name “Maffei No. 1.” This locomotive, 0-4-0 with four coupled axles, was the second in the fleet of the mentioned company's rolling stock. It worked almost its entire career for the sawmill in Ilija\u0161 until 1961, when it was assigned to the company “Jela,” Tar\u010din, and later to \u0160.I.P. “Vranica” Fojnica, until the end of 1965 when it was decommissioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The locomotive of the series (boiler number) 1264, built in 1921 at the Krauss & Comp. A.G.<\/em> factory in Linz –<\/em> Austria. It served both companies until 1938, when it was transferred to the ownership of the Sarajevo Forest Directorate, specifically for the forestry department “Zvijezda” in Ilija\u0161. Its working life ended in 1965 with the elimination of the narrow-gauge track and the forest railway “Ilija\u0161 \u2013 Miso\u010da.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Based on research from other sources, we present data on locomotives that operated after 1945 for the needs of \u0160.I.P. “Bosna” \u2013 Ilija\u0161 and the “Zvijezda” forest management office \u2013 Ilija\u0161:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The locomotive of series (boiler number) 4657, manufactured in 1901 at the Krauss & Comp. A.G., Linz<\/em> factory \u2014 Austria. It was owned by the company “Morpurgo & Parente”<\/em> and operated on the \u201cUsora \u2013 Pribini\u0107\u201d branch railway (1886\/1896) before transferring to the ownership of the Regional Forestry Railway \u201cUsora \u2013 Pribini\u0107i\u201d (Landes\u00e4rarische Waldbahn Usora \u2013 Pribinic, 1896-1918<\/em>). According to the 1932 inventory of industrial locomotives by the Sarajevo Railway Directorate, the last major overhaul of the steam boiler was performed in 1934. After the war (1945), it was owned by P.D.I. \u201cJahorina,\u201d and from 1961 to 1965, it was used for the needs of \u0160.I.P. \u201cBosna\u201d \u2013 Ilija\u0161.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Locomotive of series (boiler number) 7380 produced in 1916 at the Orenstein<\/em> & Koppel \u2013 Berlin<\/em> factory, purchased for the benefit of the company G\u00f6tz&Co, Vienna (a trading company for the sale of various machines, etc.). As part of the repairs, it belonged to Bosanska d.d. for the ‘exploitation’ of wood and steam engine – Banja Luka under the name \u201eBrettauer br. 4\u201c until 1934, when it came under the supervision and exploitation of \u201eSA d\u2019Exploitation foresti\u00e8re<\/em>\u201c, Zagreb; Banja Luka mine. Since 1949, it has been owned by P.D.I. \u201eJahorina\u201c, and from 1961 to 1965, it served the forestry directorate \u201eZvijezda\u201c – Ilija\u0161.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Locomotive of series (boiler number) 5091, manufactured in 1904 at the Krauss & Comp. A.G., Linz<\/em> factory – Austria, owned from 1904 to 1919 by Bosnische Holzverwertungs A.G.<\/em> Tesli\u0107 under no. ‘4’, from 1920 to 1945 in service for the firm P.D.I. “Borja” Tesli\u0107 under the name no. ‘3’. After the war (1945), vehicles were used for the needs of the firm P.D.I. “Vrbas” \u2013 Podgraci, and later for the sawmill \u0160.I.P. “Bosna” in Ilija\u0161.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The locomotive of series (boiler number) 5061, manufactured in 1904 at the Krauss & Comp. M\u00fcnchen<\/em>–Linz<\/em> factory. It served the company “Ungarn Wagonfabrik RaaB<\/em>“. After the war (1918), it was owned by the company “Jela<\/em>” d.d. Tar\u010din until 1937, when it was taken out of service due to the company's liquidation. The new owner was the enterprise “Todorovi\u0107 i Dohan<\/em>” (Ilija\u0161 \u2013 Miso\u010da), and from 1945, it served the forestry administration “Zvijezda” in Ilija\u0161.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This modest research paper, which we have presented in this article, concludes with sincere gratitude to the employees at the Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, without whose assistance in recommending the use of available library resources and permission to present the sketches and plans above would not have been possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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