Tatranská Lomnica

Skalnaté Pleso observatory , on the left in the background the Lomnitz peak

Tatranská Lomnica (German Tatralomnitz , Hungarian Tátralomnic ) is a village in the town of Vysoké Tatry with 2000 inhabitants and is 850 m above sea level. NN. The place is the tourist center of the Slovak High Tatras . This is where the national park administration and the associated nationally known TANAP museum are located.

history

The place was founded in 1892. Tatranská Lomnica is located in the Veľká Lomnica area , the first state climatic health resort in the High Tatras. The hotels Lomnica and Praha, among others, date from this period. Since 1912, the place endpoint is the Tatra Electric Railway of Poprad . In 1940 the first gondola lift to the Lomnitzerspitze was built . Until 1960 the place belonged to the Starý Smokovec community and was independent until it was incorporated into Vysoké Tatry.

tourism

From Tatranská Lomnica a cable car leads to Skalnaté pleso (Steinbachsee) at an altitude of 1,750 m. The Tatra observatory is located there. From there another cable car leads to Lomnický štít (Lomnicky Peak), 2632 m, and a chair lift to Lomnický hrebeň (Lomnicky Saddle), 2200 m. Many day tourists come to Tatranská Lomnica with the Tatra Railway. The place is the starting point for mountain hikes and cable car rides.

Sports

In Tatranská Lomnica there were three smaller ski jumping hills with the Jamy ski jumps until the demolition in 2008 , of which only the K28 has survived.

Web links

Commons : Tatranská Lomnica  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jamy-Schanzen on Skisprungschanzen.com

Coordinates: 49 ° 10 '  N , 20 ° 17'  E