Medzev
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State : | Slovakia | |
Kraj : | Košický kraj | |
Okres : | Košice-okolie | |
Region : | Košice (region) | |
Area : | 31.861 km² | |
Residents : | 4,482 (Dec 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 141 inhabitants per km² | |
Height : | 313 m nm | |
Postal code : | 044 25 | |
Telephone code : | 0 55 | |
Geographic location : | 48 ° 42 ' N , 20 ° 54' E | |
License plate : | KS | |
Kód obce : | 521671 | |
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Community type : | city | |
Administration (as of November 2018) | ||
Mayor : | Matej Smorada | |
Address: | Mestský úrad Medzev Štóska 6 04425 Medzev |
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Website: | www.medzev.sk | |
Statistics information on statistics.sk |
Medzev , German Metzenseifen (Hungarian Meczenzéf - to 1902 Mecenzéf ) is a town in the east of Slovakia with a population of 4482 (December 31, 2019).
Medzev is a member of the European Charter - Villages of Europe , a group of rural communities from all 28 EU countries.
geography
The city is located 36 kilometers west of Košice , in the southeastern part of the Slovak Ore Mountains between the Volovské vrchy and Slovak Karst mountains . The upper Bodva flows through the place . The Šugovský potok and Zlatná brooks feed smaller ponds which used to be used as a water supply for the former hammer mills. The area is partly deforested, partly covered by beech forest. The city center is at an altitude of 313 m nm
Neighboring communities of Medzev are Mníšek nad Hnilcom in the north, Jasov in the east, Turňa nad Bodvou in the south, Hačava in the southwest and Štós in the west.
history
The place was created in 1960 by merging the places Nižný Medzev (German Untermetzenseifen; Hungarian Alsómeczenzéf ) and Vyšný Medzev ( Obermetzenseifen; the latter has been independent again since 1999). These places were founded in the 13th century (1359 Mechenseuph ), but probably there were German and Slovak miners before that. After the Mongol invasions, there was a large influx of German families, with the ownership structure being largely determined by the Jasov monastery .
From the 14th century onwards, besides mining, craft became more and more decisive. From the 15th century, the places Nižný and Vyšný Medzev were differentiated. During the Reformation the monastery was closed, so that the place no longer fell under his rule. The dispute over rule flared up again in the course of the Counter Reformation and the reorganization of the monastery; This dispute only ended under Maria Theresa .
In the course of industrialization , the place became an economic center. Numerous hammer smiths (around 100) mainly produced agricultural implements. In 1894 Metzenseifen received a railway connection on the Moldava nad Bodvou – Medzev railway line . In the 1930s there were tensions between the German- and Slovak-speaking workers. Up to the end of the Second World War, the Carpathian Germans formed the largest population group; Even today, over 20% of the population is German-speaking. In the 2000s, the number of Germans rose by around 0.75%.
Mantakish
The older population still speaks Mantakic, a dialect of the German language that is restricted to this place and is derived from the dialects of the Germans who immigrated from the 14th to the 18th century, the so-called Saxons (Latin Saxones ). , has formed. The vocabulary of the Mantaks , as the users of this endangered dialect are called, is recorded in the Mantakic dictionary in writing and tone.
In the primary school of Metzenseifen (officially with the bilingual name Základná škola - Primary School Medzev ), German has been taught again from the 1st grade onwards, in some classes for 6 hours per week. The local city chronicler Walter Bistika complains, however, that the increasing knowledge of standard German was at the expense of the Mantakic dialect. According to the deputy headmistress Gertrúda Schürgerová (2013), only 2 to 3 children per class understand Mantakish, while in 1993 half of the pupils still spoke the dialect. Although half of the primary school teachers are supposed to speak Mantakish, the dialect is not taught, unlike standard German. An exception is a theater project of a seventh grade, which was carried out in 2013, partly in Mantakish (also German and Slovak). Since both parents rarely speak the dialect among today's school children, it is usually not passed on to the children. However, there are still a few children who hardly speak Slovak when they start school. Due to the school environment with Slovak and - to a lesser extent - Standard German, the children's dialect skills are lost again.
population
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year | Residents | Slovaks | German | Hungary | Others | |||
1880 | 3,173 | 58 | 2,733 | 238 | 144 | |||
1890 | 2,690 | 112 | 2,390 | 159 | 29 | |||
1900 | 2,805 | 112 | 2,258 | 417 | 18th | |||
1910 | 2,658 | 83 | 1.918 | 596 | 61 | |||
1921 | 2,670 | 102 | 1,945 | 600 | 23 | |||
1930 | 2,656 | 245 | 2,062 | 240 | 109 |
According to the results of the 2001 census, Medzev had 3,667 inhabitants.
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Attractions
- The Catholic Church of the Birth of the Virgin Mary is originally a Gothic building from the early 15th century; It was completely rebuilt in 1732–1735 and restored in 1891.
Web links
- Alt-Metzenseifen: genealogy, history (multilingual)
- Tourist information (Slovak)
- The Mantakic dialect
- Dictionary of the Mantak dialect of Metzenseifen
- Ernst Tomasch: The Metzenseifner dialect - attempt at a mantakic grammar (2010)
Individual evidence
- ^ Gabriela Schleusener, Heinz Schleusener: Dictionary of German dialect in Metzenseifen . Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2013.
- ↑ Medzev.sk - oficiálna webová stránka: Viacúčelové ihrisko v areáli Základnej školy - Medzev Primary School , official city website in 2009 and Základná škola - Medzev Primary School , official school website (Slovak, with bilingual official name), accessed December 2, 2014.
- ↑ Kristina Forbat: Legendary Metzenseifen . Kaschau city clerk 2013, June 7, 2013.
- ↑ Zoltán Ilyés, Az 1938-as határváltozás és a felső-Bódva-völgyi németség (Mecenzéf, Stósz), p. 3 link