Belišće

The story of Belišće dates back to 1884, when Hungarian family of wholesalers and manufacturers, headed by Salamon Heinrich Gutmann, opened an oak timber sawmill - one of the most modern, in that time, and probably the largest in Europe. The sawmill was situated on the plain, along the right bank of the Drava. They call it Belistje, later Beliste, not knowing that a settlement, built on this place, will get its name, years later, after the sawmill - Belisce. Soon, along with the factory, the first residential buildings rose as well as the factory settlement for workers. That same year, the first kilometers of forest-industrial railway track arose with the gauge of 100 cm, which soon grow into local Slavonian railroad with public transportation, a network of industrial railway lines, stations, fireroom and repair facility in Belisce with a total length of 335 km. With the beginning of work the sawmill was established and the fire company.