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{{Short description|Manor house in Jesenice, Slovenia}}
[[Image:Starasava.JPG|thumb|[[Stara Sava]], the central square. From the left to the right: Ruard Manor, Church of the Assumption of Mary, Worker's Barracks]]
The '''Bucellini–Ruard Manor''', commonly referred to as the '''Ruard Manor''' ({{langx|sl|Ruardova graščina}}), is a 16th-century [[manor house]] located in the [[Stara Sava|Sava]] neighbourhood of the town of [[Jesenice, Jesenice|Jesenice]] in northwestern [[Slovenia]], at the street address of ''45 France Prešeren Street'' ({{lang|sl|Cesta Franceta Prešerna 45}}). It is one of four so-called "ironworks castles" built in the area during the 16th and early 17th centuries by the owners of iron-mining and -processing facilities, in what were then the clustered settlements of [[Plavž (Jesenice)|Plavž]], Sava, [[Murova (Jesenice)|Murova]] and [[Slovenski Javornik|Javornik]], amalgamated into the town of Jesenice in 1929. The [[Kos Manor]] in Murova also survives; the Plavž and Javornik manors were demolished.

The Ruard Manor was built in 1538 by the [[Italy|Italian]] businessman Bernardo Bucellini, who had recently relocated to Sava from [[Bergamo]] and whose family would come to dominate the iron mining and processing industry of the entire [[Upper Sava Valley|upper Sava valley]]. Unlike the Kos manor, Bucelenni chose to locate this residence close to the ironworks themselves. The Bucellinis were very successful for a time, and were ennobled during the 17th century, taking the name "von Reichenberg" after the German name of their ore mines at [[Planina pod Golico|Savske Jame]]. In 1686 the family was elevated to counthoood.

The manor gained the second half of its current name in 1766, when Valentin Ruard, a [[Belgium|Belgian]] entrepreneur, bought the entire estate and restored the failing ironworks surrounding it. Leopold Ruard, his son, was mayor of Jesenice under the brief period of [[Illyrian Provinces|French rule]]. In 1831, the manor was expanded and reconstructed in the [[Neoclassical architecture|Neoclassical style]]. In the next generation, it passed out of Ruard hands, as Viktor Ruard was unable to obtain capital for the modernization of the family ironworks, and was forced to sell both them and the manor to the [[KID]] company in 1871, which converted it into clerks' housing (much like the nearby [[Workers' Barracks]]).

Since 1954, the manor has served as a museum, and later became the seat of the [[Upper Sava Museum Jesenice|Upper Sava Museum]].<ref>[http://www.gornjesavskimuzej.si/ Upper Sava Museum web site]</ref> It hosts several permanent exhibits:
*Historical museum of the iron and steel industry in the Jesenice region, featuring tools, artifacts and motorized [[maquette]]s of industrial facilities
*[[Paleontological]] collection of the [[Palaeozoic]] flora and fauna of the western [[Karawanks]]
*[[Mineral]] collection<ref>[http://www.jesenice.si/dokument2.asp?id=2031&tip=pdf Stara Sava tourist guide, from the Jesenice municipal web site]{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

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