Svätý Anton
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| State : | Slovakia | ||
| Kraj : | Banskobystrický kraj | ||
| Okres : | Banská Štiavnica | ||
| Region : | Pohrony | ||
| Area : | 22.605 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1,199 (Dec. 31, 2019) | ||
| Population density : | 53 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Height : | 449 m nm | ||
| Postal code : | 969 72 | ||
| Telephone code : | 0 45 | ||
| Geographic location : | 48 ° 25 ′ N , 18 ° 56 ′ E | ||
| License plate : | BS | ||
| Kód obce : | 516597 | ||
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| Community type : | local community | ||
| Administration (as of November 2018) | |||
| Mayor : | Martin Kminiak | ||
| Address: | Obecný úrad Svätý Anton 34 96972 Svätý Anton |
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| Website: | www.svatyanton.sk | ||
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Svätý Anton (until June 30, 1996 Slovak "Antol" - until 1948 "Svätý Antol"; German Sankt Anton in der Au , Hungarian Szentantal ) is a municipality in central Slovakia . It is located in the Schemnitz Mountains about 6 km south of Banská Štiavnica .
The community was first mentioned in writing as Scentantollo in 1266 and is best known for the late baroque-classicist castle with an English park from the 18th century.
Sväty Anton Castle
The building of the palace should symbolize a calendar: it had 4 wings (seasons), 12 chimneys (months), 52 rooms (weeks) and 365 windows (days), but these signs are no longer clearly recognizable after a renovation.
In the past the castle belonged to the Sitno manor, which from 1629 belonged to the Hungarian family Koháry . His relatives built two more wings in addition to the two existing wings in Svätý Anton between 1744 and 1750, so that today's four-wing complex was created.
From 1829 the castle belonged to the Saxe-Coburg-Koháry family .
A member of this important European ruling dynasty, Ferdinand von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha , became the founder of the Bulgarian ruling dynasty in 1887. He ruled until 1918; from 1908 on with the title "Tsar". After the First World War he had to leave Bulgaria. He lived in Coburg and in Slovakia in Sväty Anton. In Sväty Anton's castle there is a study of the Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand I with an extraordinary table from the second half of the 19th century. The table top hides a unique monument - handwritten drawings and pictures of the Tsar on botany (his favorite hobbyhorse) with authentic marginal notes. The oldest drawing is from 1877, when Ferdinand was only 18 years old. The earliest observation was recorded on October 27, 1934. From 1941 onwards, Tsar Ferdinand stayed mainly in Sväty Anton. He left Slovakia and the castle due to the war in November 1944 to return to his main residence in Germany ( Coburg ), where he died in 1948. Since he spent happy times in Sväty Anton in his youth and old age, he let his coffin and the like. a. write that one day he would like to be "saved in the lap of the earth in Slovakia"
The castle has been a national cultural monument since 1958.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Böttcher: Ferdinand von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha 1861 - 1948 - A cosmopolitan on the Saxon throne . Osteuropazentrum Berlin-Verlag (Anthea Verlagsgruppe), Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-89998-296-1 , p. 374-378, 382 .