Spišská Belá
| Spišská Belá | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Slovakia | ||
| Kraj : | Prešovský kraj | ||
| Okres : | Kežmarok | ||
| Region : | Tatry | ||
| Area : | 33.939 km² | ||
| Residents : | 6,733 (Dec. 31, 2019) | ||
| Population density : | 198 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Height : | 631 m nm | ||
| Postal code : | 059 01 | ||
| Telephone code : | 0 52 | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 11 ' N , 20 ° 27' E | ||
| License plate : | KK | ||
| Kód obce : | 523828 | ||
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| Community type : | city | ||
| Urban area structure: | 2 districts | ||
| Administration (as of November 2018) | |||
| Mayor : | Jozef Kuna | ||
| Address: | Mestský úrad Spišská Belá Petzvalova 18 05901 Spišská Belá |
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| Website: | spisskabela.sk | ||
| Statistics information on statistics.sk | |||
Spišská Belá (German Zipser Bela , Hungarian Szepesbéla ) is a town in eastern Slovakia in the Poprad Valley seven kilometers north of Kežmarok .
history
Spišská Belá was first mentioned in writing as Bela in 1263 and is divided into the actual town of Spišská Belá ( Zipser Bela ) and the town of Strážky (German Nehre ), which was incorporated on February 1, 1976 and is located south of the town. The Beliansky potok ( Belerbach ) flows through the village and flows into the Poprad shortly afterwards .
The place belonged to the brotherhood of the 24 royal parishes and the union of the 24 Spiš cities . By mortgaging part of the cities it came to Poland and was later part of the only 16 Spis cities. Even during the pledging, the city retained its wealth.
Population development
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| year | Residents | Slovaks | German | Hungary | Others | |||
| 1880 | 2,589 | 526 | 1,884 | 93 | 86 | |||
| 1910 | 2,894 | 1,258 | 1,247 | 355 | 34 | |||
| 2011 | 6,387 | 5,830 | - | - | - | |||
Attractions
- Late Romanesque Catholic church building from 1264 with alterations from the 14th and 15th centuries, which is dedicated to Anthony of Padua
- Baroque - classical Protestant church from 1784
- Old houses on the market
- Beler Bad (Belianske kúpele), a bath with mineral springs and mud baths that was built in the 17th century, closed after 1945, about 1 kilometer southeast of the center
- Strážky Castle , built between 1570 and 1590 in the Renaissance style
- Roman Catholic Church of St. Anna in Strážky
- Bell tower in Strážky
Town twinning
City partnerships connect Spišská Belá with the German city of Brück in Brandenburg , with Szczawnica and Ożarów in Poland and with Vysoké Mýto in the Czech Republic .
sons and daughters of the town
- Josef Maximilian Petzval (1807-1891), mathematician
literature
- Ernst Hochberger: The big book of Slovakia . Hochberger, Sinn 1997, pp. 255f
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The city's website - Partnerské mestá , accessed on April 9, 2018