Acta Facultatis Ecologiae - Technická univerzita vo Zvolene

92Fig. 1 The general map of the Slaná River drainage basin in the territory of the Slovak Republic,till 1918 known as Gemer, part of the European iron road – according to (1)The rich deposits of iron minerals became theraw material basis for iron working in the Slovakovens, which have been built in Gemer from 10thcentury. The iron production is developing especiallyin the surroundings of deposits Železník,Hrádok, Rožňava and Dobšiná. In all the drainageBasin of the Slaná River are on a large numberbuilding pit-part Slovak ovens. For the iron workingplants, exploiting waterpower, in this regionin the year 1344 began. It looked like the first in theHungarian kingdom built “the hamor” in Štitnik,which made use of the water wheel on the drive thebowers in ovens and the hammers on forging thereduce iron. The Slovak ovens worked in Gemerabove half a millennium and the last from them finishedmelting of iron in the year 1853 in Lúčka.Building the oven of hitting type, namely in the trotround of the stream Turiec in the surroundings ofKameňany, in the beginning of 18th century started.In Dobšiná was stated the first blast furnace in