Krupina
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| State : | Slovakia | ||
| Kraj : | Banskobystrický kraj | ||
| Okres : | Krupina | ||
| Region : | Poiplie | ||
| Area : | 88.669 km² | ||
| Residents : | 7,912 (Dec. 31, 2019) | ||
| Population density : | 89 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Height : | 262 m nm | ||
| Postal code : | 963 01 | ||
| Telephone code : | 0 45 | ||
| Geographic location : | 48 ° 21 ' N , 19 ° 4' E | ||
| License plate : | KA | ||
| Kód obce : | 518557 | ||
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| Community type : | city | ||
| Administration (as of November 2018) | |||
| Mayor : | Radoslav Vazan | ||
| Address: | Mestský úrad Krupina Svätotrojičné námestie 4 96301 Krupina |
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| Website: | www.krupina.sk | ||
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Krupina (German carp , Hungarian Korpona , Latin Carpona ) is a city in southern central Slovakia.
location
The city is located on the eastern edge of the Schemnitz Mountains ( Štiavnické vrchy ) and on the southeast of the Karpfen plateau ( Krupinská planina ), about 27 kilometers south of Zvolen and about 200 kilometers north of Budapest .
history
In the area of the place there was a settlement at the latest during the Bronze Age . In the Middle Ages, the Slavs were the first inhabitants. The Slavic-Slovak place name Krupina also shows this. In the Latin document from 1135, the name Corpona is written as river / fluvium, in 1238 as the settlement Corpona, in 1244 as village / villa Curpona uwa. At the beginning of the 13th century (1238), German miners (Saxones de Carpona) were mentioned as residents of the place , in the same year carp also received city rights . Together with Trnava , which received city rights around the same year, it was one of the oldest (and thus most important at the time) cities in Slovakia and the entire Kingdom of Hungary .
After the Mongol invasion of 1241/42 the place was settled again and a central complex with a rectangular market place was built. The city became a royal city as early as 1244. The “Karpfener Recht” based on Magdeburg law subsequently became the basis for many cities in central and northern Slovakia (around 30).
The hoped-for high-yield raw material deposits could not be found; silver and gold mining came to an end as early as the 14th century. In the following years, the residents turned to handicrafts and agriculture. In addition, the place was badly affected by the troops of Johann Giskra (Ján Jiskra) for 20 years , as well as during the Turkish wars. The originally German-influenced city became more and more a Hungarian-Slovakian as the Hungarians and Slovaks retreated from the Turks . In the period that followed, it was the great fires (1708) and the plague (1710) that caused setbacks in the city's development.
The first schools were built in the 18th century, and in 1918 the place came to Slovakia, but was reoccupied by the Hungarian army in 1919 and only taken over by Czechoslovak troops at the end of the summer . During the Second World War , the headquarters of the Soviet and French-led partisan units worked near the city. On March 3, 1945, Krupina was liberated by the Romanian and Soviet Red Army. 1960–2002 the city was the seat of an okres .
Attractions
- City fortifications, laid out 1551–64, mostly built with houses
- Renaissance style houses on the market square
- Town hall from 1901.
- Trinity column on the market square from 1752.
- Protestant church, built in the classical style from 1784–88 as a church of tolerance
- Catholic church, built at the beginning of the 13th century as a three-aisled Romanesque basilica, redesigned in 1705 in Baroque style
Sons and daughters
- Andrej Sládkovič (1820–1872), Lutheran pastor and writer
- Vladimír Miko (1943–2017), Czechoslovak table tennis player
- Patrik Polc (* 1985), ice hockey goalkeeper
See also
literature
- J. Sliačan: Krupina. Krupina, 1944.
- A. Zrebený: Z feudálnych dejín Krupiny. Martin, 1974. (there German and Hungarian resumé)
- M. Lukáč et al: Krupina - monografia mesta. Banská Bystrica 2006. (there English, German, French and Hungarian resumé)
