Drnava

Drnava , Hungarian derno (Slovak in the 19th century, "Drnava" or "Derňava"; German Dernau ) is a municipality in the east of Slovakia with 713 inhabitants (December 31, 2019), which for Okres Rožňava , part of Košický kraj , heard.

geography

Historical photo of the ironworks, 1935

The village is located on the easternmost foothills of the Rožňavská kotlina basin within the Slovak Karst , in the valley of the Čremošná river . The center of the village lies at an altitude of 376 m nm and is 11 kilometers from Rožňava .

Neighboring municipalities are Úhorná in the north, Smolník in the northeast, Kováčová in the east, Jablonov nad Turňou in the south, Lipovník in the southwest, Krásnohorské Podhradie in the west and Pača in the northwest.

history

Country castle, photo from the early 20th century

Drnava was first mentioned in writing as Dwrnew in 1364 , but it originated as a mining settlement sometime in the 13th or 14th century. Initially, the village was part of the estate of Tornau Castle , in the early modern times of Krásna Hôrka Castle and thus also of the Bebek family and finally Andrássy. In 1828 there were 105 houses and 839 inhabitants who were employed in the mines and ironworks.

The first ironworks were established as early as the 18th century, but there was an upturn in the 19th century. In 1821 there were four iron furnaces and four hammer mills here, later replaced by blast furnaces, which gradually merged into what was then a modern iron mill. Among other things, it supplied components for the Chain Bridge in Budapest . In the 1840s around 250 workers were employed there, and in the 1850s the plant produced a few thousand tons of iron. The ironworks stopped working before the dissolution of Austria-Hungary .

Until 1918/1919, the place in Gemer and Kleinhont counties (until 1881 in Torna counties ) belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary and then became part of Czechoslovakia and now Slovakia. From 1938 to 1945 he was once again part of Hungary on the basis of the First Vienna Arbitration .

population

According to the 2011 census, 704 inhabitants lived in Drnava, including 478 Magyars , 195 Slovaks , five Roma and three Czechs . 23 residents gave no information on ethnicity .

560 residents committed to the Roman Catholic Church, 38 residents to the Reformed Church, nine residents to the Greek Catholic Church, eight residents to the Evangelical Church AB, and one resident each to the Evangelical Methodist Church and one to the Orthodox Church; one resident professed a different denomination. 50 residents had no denomination and the denomination of 36 residents was not determined.

Buildings

Cast iron portrait of Peter Paul Rubens from the ironworks, ca.1860

Roman Catholic church in mixed baroque-classical style from 1779
Country palace in the baroque-classical style from the late 18th century
Remains of the ironworks

Individual evidence

↑ Slovenské slovníky: názvy obcí Slovenskej republiky (Majtán 1998)

↑ Results of the 2011 census (Slovak) ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

Web links

Commons : Drnava - collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry on e-obce.sk (Slovak)

[1] Slovenské slovníky: názvy obcí Slovenskej republiky (Majtán 1998)