History in dates: |
1004 |
The German emperor Henry II conferred the estate on the plateaus of Pokljuka, Jelovica and Mežakla to the bishops of Brixen. |
1782 |
The emperor Joseph II closed many monasteries that owned forests, among them also the religous fund from the Kranjska region. |
1803 |
The estate was nationalized pursuant the emperor's order and included into a cameralist fund. |
1837 |
The first known economical plan for the Pokljuka was prepared by the Czech forester Hieronim Ullrich. |
1838 |
The emperor Ferdinand returns the estate to the diocese of Brixen. |
1858 |
The diocese of Brixen sells the estate to the hammer mill worker Viktor Ruard. |
1871 |
Viktor Ruard sells the estate to the Kranjska industrijska družba. |
1876 |
Beginning of operations of forest management offices in Radovljica and Bled. |
1883 |
Lambert von Pantz finishes a forestry single-cable gravity ropeway from Soteska to Blatni graben, which is the oldest object of this type preserved in the world. |
1888 |
Carl Posch made a plan for the management of the Pokljuka with the validity 1888-1908. |
1895 |
Austria purchases 26.454 ha of forests on the Pokljuka, Jelovica and Mežakla for the needs of the religious fund of the Kranjska region. |
1910 |
Forest management office moves from Radovljica to Bohinjska Bistrica. |
1939 |
The archdiocese of Ljubljana gets to own the estate of the religious fund of the Kranjska region. |
1946 |
The government of LRS establishes five forest management units (among others the Gorenjska unit) in order to cultivate and exploit the state forests that were conferred to them and to process timber in the scope of their own wood plants. |
1947 |
The estate was nationalized and assigned to management to the Gorenjsko gozdno gospodarstvo - the predecessor of GG Bled. |
1947 |
Beginning of a road construction between the Selška dolina valley via the Rovtarica to Bohinjska Bistrica. |
1948 |
Establishment of the labour organisation GG Bled. |
1952 |
GG Bled also comprises Gozdno gospodarstvo Kranj, which regains independence in 1953. |
1953 |
GG Bled is excluded from the register of state-owned companies and becomes a commercial organisation with independent financing. |
1959 |
GG Bled starts using the first motor saws and introducing tractors for the hauling of timber. |
1961 |
Based on the project prepared by one of the pioneers of the post-war architecture - Danilo Fürst, the civil engineering unit of GG Bled erects the main offices of GG Bled in the period 1959-1961 on Ljubljanska cesta 19 in Bled, where the company still has its seat nowadays. |
1963 |
GG Bled undertakes the management of privately owned forests. |
1974 |
Basic organizations of associated labour (TOZD) for socially owned forests and basic organisations of co-operants (TOK) for privately owned forests as well as a labour society of common services (DSSS) are organized. |
1975 |
A mechanized warehouse of timber starts operating in Bohinjska Bistrica. |
1976 |
A labour centre is erected in Bohinjska Bistrica - the workers move from their dwellings in forest areas to the valley. |
1983 |
The second mechanized warehouse of timber starts operating in Rečica. |
1986 |
The second labour centre is erected in Rečica. |
1991 |
Pursuant to the denationalization act the archdiocese of Ljubljana files a request for the return of the nationalized estate. |
1993 |
Based on the National Farm Land and Forest Fund Act the socially owned forests became state forests and the National Farm Land and Forest Fund of the Republic of Slovenia managed them until the denationalization decisions became finally binding. |
1994 |
Pursuant to the Act on Forests (1993) joint management in social and privately owned forests comes to an end. The old GG Bled dissociates into the public service Slovenia Forest Service, the agricultural-forest co-operative GOZD Bled and the new GG Bled. |
1994 |
The administrative unit of Jesenice issues the first denationalization decision. |
1997 |
The Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Restructuring and Privatization issues a decision on entry of ownership transformation onto the register of companies and GG Bled becomes a joint-stock company. |
2001 |
GG Bled signs a concession agreement with the National Farm Land and Forest Fund for the management with state forests on the territory of the Bled forest-management area. |
2004 |
GG Bled introduces as the first forest management company in Slovenia machine felling of trees for the harvesting and haulage of timber with complete technology (harvester and forwarder). |
2006 |
GG Bled is acquired by the company Metropolitana d.o.o., which is 100 % owned by the Archdiocese of Ljubljana. The legal organisation type of the company changes from d.d. to d.o.o. (limited-liability company). |
2007 |
GG Bled obtains the FSC Certificate for the management of state-owned forests. |
2008 |
GG Bled reaches the record sales of timber totalling 188,391 cubic metres. |
2010 |
GG Bled obtains the FSC Certificate for the management of the forests owned by the Arcdiocese Ljubljana. |
2016 |
The company obtains a licence to sell the PEFC certified wood. |
2016 |
Conccession for the management of state-owned forests expiried on 30 June 2016. |
2018 |
With 87 employees, 736.809 cubic meters of timber are purchased and dispatched, achieving net sales revenues of 60,604,698 EUR.
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