History of Trzin

testify of Roman settlements, because the Roman Emona-Celeia road lead through Trzin. In a crevice of a quarry was found a stone hatchet from the Neolithic period, which proves the attendance or maybe even permanent settlement of people in this area.

Janez Vajkard Valvazor wrote, that people of Trzin were renowned for making excellent beds, fishing nets, fishing rods and ropes, though people of Trzin where mostly (stock) farmers. Because fields couldn’t satisfy the needs of food, many set to other work, like butcher or slaughterer. They were valued sausage salesman – they are supposed to be the “inventors” of the famous Carniola sausage (Kranjska klobasa). Some of them where livestock traders or horse and cart drivers, well known even in Klagenfurt. Trzin people where also known as very brave. In 1528 they defeated, together with inhabitants of Mengeš and Goričice, plundering Turk on Mengeš Field. On the eight of September 1813 they helped Austrian to defeat Napoleons soldiers on Mengeš Field, with attacking the 7000 Frenchman, lead from general Belotti, from the back.

In the time of French occupation, brigands occurred in the area of Trzin. Some of them stayed even after the French pulled back. Many stories on brigands remained - the most attention-grabbing is the story about the death of the most famous brigand Dimež (Franc Sicherl), who choke to death on smoke in the brickyard of Trzin, together with his accomplice Pepelnak (Matijc Mlakar), on 20 January