Podhorany (Kežmarok)

Podhorany (until 1948 Slovak "Maldur"; German Maltern or Mältern , Hungarian Maldur ) is a municipality in the north of Slovakia with 3,044 inhabitants (December 31, 2019). It belongs to the Okres Kežmarok , a part of the Prešovský kraj .

geography

The municipality is located at the eastern end of the Popradská kotlina basin (part of the larger Podtatranská kotlina ) on the Vojniansky creek on the right bank of the Poprad . It belongs to the traditional landscape Zips (Slovak Spiš ). The center of the village lies at an altitude of 598 m nm and is 14 kilometers from Kežmarok and 21 kilometers from Stará Ľubovňa , off the Spišská Belá – Stará Ľubovňa state road .

history

Podhorany was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1297 and was founded by the Görgey family, to whose estate the place belonged until the 18th century when it came to the Jekelfalussy family. As in the past, the place is dominated by agriculture. In 1828 there are 121 houses and 878 inhabitants.

Maltern was a German-speaking village until 1945. After the end of the Second World War, the German residents were expelled and Slovaks came here from northern Slovakia. Lately, large waves of Roma have immigrated to the place (see section Population). The place name Maldur, which goes back to the German place name, was replaced in 1948 by a Slavic place name (pod horu = "at the foot of the mountains").

population

Results after the 2001 census (1417 inhabitants):

By ethnicity:

54.48% Roma & Sinti
41.21% Slovaks
2.12% Ukrainians
0.21% Russians

By religion:

92.80% Roman Catholic
2.12% no answer
1.98% Orthodox
1.13% non-denominational
0.92% Protestant

Attractions

Roman Catholic Church of St. Martin from 1350, with the Renaissance tower
Protestant church from 1806