Spišská Sobota
Spišská Sobota (Polish Spiska Sobota , German Georgenberg , Hungarian Szepesszombat - older also Szepesszombathely , Latin Forum Sabathi or Mons-Sancti-Georgii ) has been a district of Poprad , northern Slovakia , since 1946 . It is located 2 km northeast of the city center on the Poprad River on the road to Kežmarok and has about 2,750 inhabitants (as of 2009).
history
The place was mentioned for the first time in 1256 in a deed of Béla IV. As Forum Sabbathe , but already existed as a Slavic settlement and a market center. The Slovak place name arose because Saturday was market day here. This name was given several times in the Spiš region, see Spišský Štvrtok . After the Tartar invasion in 1241, the place was settled by German colonists (Zipser Sachsen) and was one of the most important cities of the Spiš next to Käsmark and Leutschau . As early as 1271, the place received city rights from King Stephan V. (Poprad, Veľká and Stráže were only mentioned as towns at the beginning of the 15th century.) In contrast to the other current districts of Poprad, which in the Middle Ages had a more agricultural and craft character, Spišská Sobota was a market settlement with various crafts. The city belonged to the union of the 24 Spis towns and to the brotherhood of the 24 royal pastors . In 1412 Sigismund of Luxembourg pledged the city with 12 other cities to the Kingdom of Poland . Although the pledge was only to take a short time, Spišská Sobota did not return to the Kingdom of Hungary until 1772 , as a result of the first partition of Poland . From 1778 to 1876 the city was formally part of the province of 16 Spiš cities and then part of the Spis County . Since the construction of the Kaschau-Oderberger Bahn in 1871, the growing city of Poprad presented competition that lasted until 1927, when Poprad got the seat of a district. Spišská Sobota was definitively incorporated into the town of Poprad in 1946. The historical center has been under monument protection since 1950 (new border of the protected area since January 1, 2002).
Attractions
- Roman Catholic Church of St. George from 1273. Originally built in the late Romanesque style, Gothicized in 1464. The church has five late Gothic winged altars and the main altar of St. George, which was the work of Paul von Leutschau .
- The market square (ring; Sobotské námestie ) with its town houses
- Classicist Protestant church from 1777
- The Matthias Corvinus House
- The former town hall
Individual evidence
- ↑ Demography on poprad.sk ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 3 ′ 56 ″ N , 20 ° 19 ′ 1 ″ E