Karlova Ves
| Karlova Ves | |
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| Basic data | |
| State : | Slovakia |
| Kraj : | Bratislavský kraj |
| Okres : | Bratislava IV |
| Region : | Bratislava |
| Area : | 11.02 km² |
| Residents : | 33,350 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
| Population density : | 3,026 inhabitants per km² |
| Height : | 176 m nm |
| Postal code : | 841 04 |
| Telephone code : | + 421-2 |
| Geographic location : | 48 ° 9 ' N , 17 ° 3' E |
| License plate : | BA, BL, BT |
| Kód obce : | 529397 |
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| Community type : | district |
| Administration (as of November 2018) | |
| Mayor : | Dana Čahojová |
| Address: | Miestny úrad Bratislava-Karlova Ves Námestie sv. Františka 8 842 62 Bratislava |
| Website: | www.karlovaves.sk |
| Statistics information on statistics.sk | |
Karlova Ves (German Karlsdorf , Hungarian Károlyfalu ) is a district in western Bratislava in the Okres Bratislava IV with 33,350 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).
geography
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The district is mostly located in the Little Carpathians , more precisely in the subunit Devínske Karpaty (German Theben Carpathians ). The main part extends in the valley of the former brook Karloveský potok and on its slopes, further east the Vydrica in the valley Mlynská dolina (German Mühltal ) marks approximately the eastern border of the district. Oak and hornbeam forests grow on the areas that have not yet been cleared. Karlova Ves has a share in the Danube , but mostly on its arm Karloveské rameno . There is the Danube island Sihoť (German cheese maker island ), which is important for the water supply of Bratislava , and is largely covered by alluvial forest.
The center of the district is at an altitude of 165 m nm , the highest point is Mount Sitina with 264 m nm , the lowest is the Danube bank on the arm Karloveské rameno with 134 m nm
Karlova Ves borders on Devín in the west, Dúbravka and Lamač in the north, Staré Mesto (old town) in the east, Petržalka in the south and the Austrian Wolfsthal in the southwest.
District structure
The district is divided into nine sectors defined by the district administration:
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history
The place is an old settlement (since the Paleolithic), with finds in the districts Dlhé diely and Staré grunty (simple cleaver, hand ax ). Not far from today's Botanical Garden is a ditch with the remains of a ritually buried child from the 5th millennium BC. Chr.
In the 9th century, a small Slavic settlement specializing in fishing emerged not far from the mouth of the Vydrica. After the Hungarian conquest, the area belonged to the estate of the Thebes Castle . One settlement was destroyed during the Mongol storm in 1242. In 1288 the Bratislava judge Jakob received the piece of land between the brooks Vydrica and Suchá Vydrica (now known as Karloveský potok ) through an act of Ladislaus IV and had vineyards and water mills built there. Gradually, the focus of the settlement called Vydrica (German Weidritz ) shifted towards the castle grounds below the Pressburg Castle .
From the 15th to the 18th century, only a few historical events have survived, although today's municipal area was the scene of several battles in the course of the Turkish wars and class revolts in the 16th and 17th centuries . The surrounding forests offered refuge for robbers who organized raids to the gates of Pressburg.
In 1720 there were around 100 hectares of vineyards in Thebes and Karlsdorf, the majority of which were divided between the Hungarian Pálffy family and the Pressburg bourgeoisie. In 1828 there were 15 houses and 120 inhabitants, whose main source of income was almost exclusively viticulture. Cholera epidemics in 1831 and 1836 claimed many lives in Karlsdorf and the surrounding area. Only in the second half of the 19th century did the subject relationship to the Theben manor end and Karlsdorf has been an independent place ever since. With the upswing in Pressburg, Karlsdorf changed into a suburban community. In 1886 the first waterworks went into operation on Käsmacherinsel (today Sihoť), in 1912 a cemetery was built in today's Slávičie údolie .
Until 1918, the place in Pressburg County belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary and then came to Czechoslovakia or now Slovakia. In 1929 the Bratislava tram reached the eastern border of the municipality, in 1935 the existing chapel was converted into a church, which received the patronage of Archangel Michael . After the Munich Agreement in late 1938 and the incorporation of Devín into the Greater German Reich , Karlova Ves became a border town (until 1945). The Botanical Garden was established in 1942, and Karlova Ves has been a part of Bratislava since 1944.
In the city of Bratislava, Karlova Ves was one of 13 districts in 1949, and after merging with Devín, one of 12 districts. In 1968 they were dissolved and the urban area was divided into four larger urban districts, including Bratislava IV, to which Karlova Ves belonged until 1990.
The Bratislava Zoological Garden was opened in Mlynská dolina in 1960 . In the 1960s, planning began to build a total of 7,000 new apartments in Karlova Ves, for which the old town center, with a few exceptions (church, cemetery), should be renovated. In the 1980s, construction began in the Dlhé diely sector, and the construction of prefabricated housing estates lasted until the 1990s. In 1976–1980 a polyclinic was built on Karloveská Street , and a year later the Slovak TV area was completed. The university center and dormitory were built in Mlynská dolina by 1985.
Today Karlova Ves is a prefabricated housing estate with more than 30,000 inhabitants, but where the relevant infrastructure and jobs are only gradually being added, so it is still largely a satellite town .
population
According to the 2011 census, the Karlova Ves district had 32,650 inhabitants, including 30,071 Slovaks , 859 Magyars , 476 Czechs , 73 Russians , 71 Moravians , 67 Germans , 48 Russians , 37 Poles , 32 Ukrainians and other ethnic groups. 636 inhabitants did not provide any information on ethnicity .
16,447 residents supported the Roman Catholic Church , 1,753 residents the Evangelical Church AB , 292 residents the Greek Catholic Church , 173 residents the Orthodox Church , 140 residents the Reformed Church, 104 residents the Jehovah's Witnesses , 85 residents the Evangelical Methodist Church, 65 residents for the Pentecostal movement , 53 residents for the Jewish community and 51 residents for the Brethren Church. 10,857 inhabitants had no denomination and the denomination was not determined for 2044 inhabitants. All other residents professed a different denomination.
Important objects in Karlova Ves
From the old town center, only the Roman Catholic Archangel Michael Church from 1935, which was created by converting a chapel from the 18th century, has been preserved. Almost all other significant objects were not built until the 20th and 21st centuries.
The “university complex” extends to the east of the district, in Mlynská dolina and on the banks of the Danube by the botanical garden. Two faculties each of the Comenius University (Faculty of Science) and the Slovak Technical University (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology) are located here. There are also the Mladosť student dormitory (for the Technical University) and the Družba student dormitory and the university town of Ľudovít Štúr - Mlyny (Slovak Vysokoškolské mesto Ľ. Štúra - Mlyny UK ) with a total capacity of around 10,500 beds (as of 2015).
Also in Mlynská dolina is the area of the Slovak television (today part of Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska ) with the 108 m high building. Right next door is the Slávičie údolie cemetery , where many important Slovak personalities are buried. The Bratislava Zoological Garden extends parallel to the D2 motorway, and the Botanical Garden continues on the banks of the Danube .
In the Patrónka sector there are buildings for individual departments of the Slovak Academy of Sciences , as well as the office complexes Westend Gate , Westend Square and the stand-alone Westend Tower , all of which are reminiscent of the official name for Patrónka, Westend , until 1945 .
After the Velvet Revolution , new sacred buildings could be built. In Dlhé diely, the Church of the Birth of the Virgin Mary ( Kostol Narodenia Panny Márie in Slovak ) was completed and consecrated in 1995 . In the period 2000–2002, the St. Francis of Assisi Church ( Kostol svätého Františka z Assisi in Slovak ), which is part of the Minorite Monastery, was built on the Námestie svätého Františka square according to a design by the Swiss architect Justus Dahinden .
The Vodárenské múzeum (German Waterworks Museum ) is located on Devínska Street .
Education and sport
In Karlova Ves there are three primary schools (Karloveská, Majerníkova, Veternicová), two comprehensive schools (Tilgnerova 14 and the ecclesiastical Francis of Assisi comprehensive school) and the Ladislav Sára grammar school.
The local sports club Karloveský športový klub (KŠK) operates several sports, such as football, swimming, boxing, mini golf and others.
traffic
The main artery of the district is formed by the four-lane streets Botanická and Karloveská , which virtually divide the district in half and together form a radial road from the center of Bratislava to Dúbravka. The four-lane roads Mlynská dolina and Lamačská cesta (here part of road 1st order 2 ) run along the eastern and northern edges . The D2 motorway runs parallel to these roads , first through the Sitina tunnel (seen from the Czech Republic) and then through Mlynská dolina (junctions 61 and 62) to the Lafranconi bridge over the Danube and on towards Austria / Hungary.
Other important roads are the Devínska (for traffic towards Devín), Molecova / Majerníkova (to Dlhé diely) and Staré grunty (in Mlynská dolina ).
The tram route to Dúbravka runs between the two lanes of the radial road with a total of eight stops and a turning loop in Karlova Ves. The district is served by lines 4, 5, 6 and 9. Between the streets Molecova and Kuklovská there has been an island operation of the city's trolleybus network since 2006 . Other lines can be accessed by buses operated by the municipal operator DPB .
Sons and daughters of Karlova Ves
- Ľubomír Kadnár (1941–2008), Czechoslovak canoeist
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ohraničenie chotáru ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2015 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. , karlovaves.sk, accessed August 2, 2015
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Patrónka sa volá podľa továrne na patróny , Bratislavské noviny, accessed on August 2, 2015
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