The
Auersperg iron foundry, one of the largest to the south of the
Alps and one of the largest early manufacturing plants in the
Slovene Lands, operated in Dvor from 1796 to 1891. It produced a wide variety of
cast iron and
wrought iron products. Examples of its work are the
Hradecky Bridge in
Ljubljana, the
boot jack depicted on a Slovenian post stamp in November 1998, and the cast-iron columns that were placed at the platforms of the
Austrian Southern Railway. The artistic castings from the foundry are the first specimens of
industrial design in the Slovene lands. == Geography ==