Brezová pod Bradlom
| Brezová pod Bradlom | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Slovakia | ||
| Kraj : | Trenčiansky kraj | ||
| Okres : | Myjava | ||
| Region : | Záhoria | ||
| Area : | 41.078 km² | ||
| Residents : | 4,768 (Dec 31, 2019) | ||
| Population density : | 116 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Height : | 260 m nm | ||
| Postal code : | 906 13 | ||
| Telephone code : | 0 34 | ||
| Geographic location : | 48 ° 40 ' N , 17 ° 32' E | ||
| License plate : | MY | ||
| Kód obce : | 504262 | ||
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| Community type : | city | ||
| Administration (as of November 2018) | |||
| Mayor : | Jaroslav Ciran | ||
| Address: | Mestský úrad Brezová pod Bradlom Námestie MRŠtefánika 2 90613 Brezová pod Bradlom |
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| Website: | www.brezova.sk | ||
| Statistics information on statistics.sk | |||
Brezová pod Bradlom (until 1927 Brezová in Slovak ; German birch grove , Hungarian Berezó - until 1907 Brezova ) is a city in western Slovakia .
Location and general
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The small town was first mentioned in 1262 under the German name Birkenhain (see Deutsche Ostsiedlung ) and is about 23 kilometers east of Senica and 12 kilometers south of the district town of Myjava at the northern end of the Little Carpathians . The place received its city rights in 1709. In the middle of the 19th century the city was a center of supporters of Ľudovít Štúr and from 1848–1849 one of the centers of the Slovak uprising .
The "local mountain" is the Bradlo (543 meters).
In the immediate vicinity, in Košariská , is the birthplace of Milan Rastislav Štefánik , a Slovak politician and general from the First World War . After his death in 1919, he was buried in a memorial tomb designed by the famous architect Dušan Jurkovič on the Bradlo (built 1927–1928).
Attractions
- Catholic church with fortifications from 1590. It was originally built by Protestants, but they lost the church to the Catholics twice in the course of their history (see Counter-Reformation ). Inside there is a Rococo interior from 1773.
- Protestant tolerance church from 1783–85, it has three galleries, a tower from 1795, which was redesigned in 1893 neo-baroque .
people
- Štefan Osuský (1889–1973), lawyer, diplomat, politician and university professor
