Ľubotín is a village

Village

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 and municipality

Municipality

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 in Stará Ľubovňa District

Stará Lubovna District

Stará Ľubovňa District is a district inthe Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia.Until 1918, the district was almost entirely part of the Hungarian county of Spiš, apart from a small area in the...

 in the Prešov Region

Prešov Region

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 of northern Slovakia

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.

History

In historical records

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 the village

Village

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 was mentioned for the first time in 1330. The oldest record comes from a priest Štefan de Lubentin from the year 1330. It is thought that Ľubotín belongs to the oldest Slovak villages, already existing in the 11th century. The coat-of-arms of the village (Madonna with baby Jesus) was firstly used in the first half of 14th century. The hundredth anniversary of the church's consecration was celebrated on 6 November 2007 at the presence of Alojz Tkáč, the archbishop of Košice.

Monuments

The sacral monument is church dedicated to name of Virgin Mary form year 1905 (Roman Catholic) - one boat with superiored tower. The church is an imitation of Romanesque style.

Interier of church

In the interier of church is a boat on the facade with altar. There is a picture of Saint Mary standing on snake's head. On the sides there are statues connected with a motive of picture. On the right side there is statue of St. Jozef with Jesus on arms. On the left side there is St. Ann (mother of virgin Mary) with small Mary. The pride of the church is the choir with historical pipe one-manual organ from year 1906.

Exterier of church

In the exterier of church over the entrance on the sides, in the niches there are renovationed statues of St. Cyril and Metod.

Geography

The municipality

Municipality

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 lies at an elevation

Elevation

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 of 490 metres (1,610 ft) and covers an area

Area

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 of 10.845 km² (4.187 mi²). It has a population

Population

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of about 1338 people.

External links

• http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html
• http://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ľubotín
• http://www.lubotin.sk/