Spišská Nová Ves

Spišská Nová Ves pronunciation ^?^/ⁱ (German (Zipser) Neu (en) village, Hungarian Igló ) is one of the largest cities in Eastern Slovakia , southeast of the High Tatras and is located in the traditional region of Spiš . The city is the capital of the district of the same name .

The Spiš Castle and the Slovak Paradise National Park are well-known attractions in the area .

history

Town hall and church

view on the city

Bird's eye view of the city center

The city is an old settlement area ( Neolithic , Great Moravia ). In the 12th century at the latest, the Slovak settlement Iglov stood on the site of today's town . In the 13th century, German settlers (so-called Zipser Saxons ) founded the village of Neudorf in their immediate vicinity . In the 2nd half of the 13th century both settlements merged. The German majority was replaced by a Slovak majority in the 19th century.

In the 14th century, the settlement developed into an important town with market rights. It has been an official mining town since 1380. The city had the largest street market in Slovakia. She was a member of the brotherhood of the 24 royal pastors, the union of the 24 Spis cities, was among the 13 cities pledged to Poland in the years 1412–1772 and since 1778 the capital of the province of the 16 Spis cities (for details see Spiš ).

In 2017 Spišská Nová Ves was awarded the honorary title of “ Reformation City of Europe ” by the Community of Evangelical Churches in Europe .

Population development

		Ethnic structure
year	Residents	Slovaks	German	Hungary	Others
1880	7,521	4,338	2,249	569	-
1890	7,345	4.214	2,300	786	-
1900	9,301	4,966	2,042	2,220	-
1910	10,525	5,103	1,786	3,494	-
1921	11,608	7,735	-	1,089	-
1930	12,965	10.094	1,461	619	-
1991	39,218	37,638	57	79	-
2001	39.193	36,924	74	65	-
2011	38,045	33,656	52	54	-

Surname

The original Slovak settlement was called Iglow (translated roughly "Nadelhausen", derived from the narrow form of the settlement). The neighboring German settlement was called Nova Villa (1268, German "Neudorf" - first source evidence ) or Hungarian Igloszasza (1279, German "Saxon Iglow").

After the merger of the two settlements ( Iglow alio nomine Nova Villa was mentioned in 1380 ), the settlement was called both Neudorf and Iglow (later only Iglovia ) in some Latin documents in the 15th century , and in Hungarian documents the form Igló, derived from Iglov, was used through, in German the form Newendorf (later Neudorf, later also Zipser Neudorf ). A translation of the German name has been used in Slovak texts since the 18th century at the latest (1786 Nowa Wes, German "Neudorf"; since 1920 Spišská Nová Ves, German "Zipser Neudorf").

City structure

The city is divided into two districts:

Novoveská Huta ( front huts )
Spišská Nová Ves with the districts of Centrum ("Center"), Sídlisko Západ ("Settlement West"), Sídlisko Východ ("Settlement East"), Sídlisko Tarča, Sídlisko Mier ("Peace Settlement") and Ferčekovce

Attractions

The city center is characterized by a large, spindle-shaped long square on which the most important sights are located:

the Roman Catholic parish church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary from the 14th century, whose tower, built in the 19th century with a height of 87 meters, is the highest church tower in Slovakia

the Protestant Tolerance Church from the end of the 18th century

the classical town hall

the redoubt , built around 1900, which today houses the Spiš Theater