Mlynica
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Slovakia | ||
| Kraj : | Prešovský kraj | ||
| Okres : | Poprad | ||
| Region : | Tatry | ||
| Area : | 7.776 km² | ||
| Residents : | 607 (Dec. 31, 2019) | ||
| Population density : | 78 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Height : | 688 m nm | ||
| Postal code : | 059 91 ( Veľký Slavkov post office ) | ||
| Telephone code : | 0 52 | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 6 ' N , 20 ° 19' E | ||
| License plate : | PP | ||
| Kód obce : | 523747 | ||
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| Community type : | local community | ||
| Administration (as of November 2018) | |||
| Mayor : | Július Vachmanský | ||
| Address: | Obecný úrad Mlynica 75 059 91 Veľký Slavkov |
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| Website: | www.mlynica.sk | ||
| Statistics information on statistics.sk | |||
Mlynica (until 1948 Slovak "Milbach"; German Mühlebach , Hungarian Malompatak until 1907 Mill Brook ) is a municipality in the east of Slovakia , with a population of 607 (as of December 31, 2019) . It belongs to Okres Poprad , which is part of the higher Prešovský kraj district .
geography
The village is located in the Podtatranská kotlina basin at the foot of the High Tatras in the traditional Spiš landscape , by the Červený creek , which flows into the Poprad river behind the village . Mlynica is six kilometers from Poprad and ten kilometers from Kežmarok .
history
The place was first mentioned in writing in 1268. It is located at the same site after the devastating an old Slavic settlement, Mongol invasion was settled in 1241 by German colonists to the 20th century preserved the majority. The name refers to the mills that no longer exist today, a symbol of the agriculture that still dominates today. In the late 13th century mill creek belonged to the League of Zipser Saxony and the federal government 24 Zipser cities but changed over time to a simple village to Zipser castle belonged. The last landowner was the family Csáky . The place was the first parish in the Spiš to embrace Protestantism.
Until 1918 the place was in Zips County in the Kingdom of Hungary and then came to Czechoslovakia . After the end of the Second World War, the German population was expelled and settled in Poland by Slovaks from Vikartovce and Slovak municipalities.
Attractions
- Roman Catholic Church of St. Margaret of Antioch , built in the 13th century and converted several times since then. In the church there is part of the work of Paul von Leutschau , a late Gothic winged altar
- A Protestant church built in 1830 housed a vintage car museum, but moved to the nearby town of Kežmarok in 2009