In 1895 Jakob Aljaz, a parish priest at Dovje, purchased the summit of Triglav and subsequently erected a nearly two-metre high and a good metre in diameter wide steel tower. In the decades to come, ...the tower that was instantly referred to as the Aljaz Tower became for the majority of Slovenes a national symbol and an official cultural monument of the Republic of Slovenia. In its initial period the tower induced German-Slovene rivalry over the mountains. The erection of the tower was not Jakob Aljaz's only achievement in the Triglav mountain range in the battle for the mountains. In 1896, he also built two huts - on Kredarica and in the Vrata valley - thereby rocking German mountaineering societies that were active on Slovene soil. They attempted to hinder his constructions, and once the buildings were finished, to have them demolished also by means of lawsuits. Aljaz managed to win all lawsuits and the tower along with the huts remained intact. //ABSTRACT IN SLOVENE: Leta 1895 je Jakob Aljaz, zupnik na Dovjem najprej odkupil vrh in nato na vrhu Triglava postavil slaba dva metra visok in dober meter v premeru sirok jekleni stolp. Stolp, ki se ga je nemudoma prijelo ime Aljazev stolp, je v naslednjih desetletjih postal za vecino Slovencev pravi nacionalni simbol in uraden drzavni kulturni spomenik Republike Slovenije. V casu nastanka pa je bil strelovod boja za gore med Nemci in Slovenci. V tem boju za gore pa ni bil edino veliko Aljazevo dejanje v Triglavskem pogorju. Aljaz je leta 1896 postavil se dve planinski koci - na Kredarici in v Vratih in s tem mocno zamajal na slovenskih tleh delujoca nemska planinska drustva. Slednja so poskusala njegove gradnje zavreti, ko so pa ze bile zgrajene pa podreti - tudi s tozbami. Aljazu je vse uspelo dobiti in stolp ter koce so ostale.
