Velká Lomnica
Encyclopedia
Veľká Lomnica is a village
and municipality
in Kežmarok District
in the Prešov Region
of north Slovakia
.
in the locality Burchbrich are dated to the end of stone and beginning of bronze age, more than 4000 years ago. 70 small animal sculptures were found as well as many tools. In the first century BC, the Celts settle here and during Great Moravia
period the Slavs arrive. The village was first mentioned in 1257. The original Slav population was outnumbered by German settlers in later middle ages. In the upheavals of 1945 Germans left and now the population is formed by Slovak settlers mainly from Pohorela
and region of Gorals
and also by Roma ethnic group. The well preserved romano-gothic church of Catherine of Alexandria was built in 13th century and rebuilt in 15th century. It has unique gothic wall frescoes discovered in 1950's. The fresco "King Ladislaus fighting the Cumans
" is considered one of the most valuable in Slovakia.
lies at an altitude
of 639 metres and covers an area
of 19.117 km² . It has a population
of about 3,770 people.
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...
and municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in Kežmarok District
Kežmarok District
Kežmarok 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
The Prešov Region is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions. It consists of 13 districts.-Geography:It is located in north-eastern Slovakia and has an area of 8,975 km². The region has diverse types of landscapes occurring in Slovakia, but mostly highlands and hilly lands dominate the...
of north Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
.
History
Archeological finds of fortified settlement of Baden cultureBaden culture
Baden culture, ca 3600 BC-ca 2800 BC, an eneolithic culture found in central Europe. It is known from Moravia, Hungary, Slovakia and Eastern Austria...
in the locality Burchbrich are dated to the end of stone and beginning of bronze age, more than 4000 years ago. 70 small animal sculptures were found as well as many tools. In the first century BC, the Celts settle here and during Great Moravia
Great Moravia
Great Moravia was a Slavic state that existed in Central Europe and lasted for nearly seventy years in the 9th century whose creators were the ancestors of the Czechs and Slovaks. It was a vassal state of the Germanic Frankish kingdom and paid an annual tribute to it. There is some controversy as...
period the Slavs arrive. The village was first mentioned in 1257. The original Slav population was outnumbered by German settlers in later middle ages. In the upheavals of 1945 Germans left and now the population is formed by Slovak settlers mainly from Pohorela
Pohorelá
Pohorelá is a village and municipality in Brezno District, in the Banská Bystrica Region of central Slovakia.The Roman Catholic Pohorela church built in 1762 is a dominant feature of the village.-External links:* *...
and region of Gorals
Gorals
The Gorale are a group of indigenous people found along southern Poland, northern Slovakia, and in the region of Cieszyn Silesia in the Czech Republic...
and also by Roma ethnic group. The well preserved romano-gothic church of Catherine of Alexandria was built in 13th century and rebuilt in 15th century. It has unique gothic wall frescoes discovered in 1950's. The fresco "King Ladislaus fighting the Cumans
Cumans
The Cumans were Turkic nomadic people comprising the western branch of the Cuman-Kipchak confederation. After Mongol invasion , they decided to seek asylum in Hungary, and subsequently to Bulgaria...
" is considered one of the most valuable in Slovakia.
Geography
The municipalityMunicipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
lies at an altitude
Altitude
Altitude or height is defined based on the context in which it is used . As a general definition, altitude is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum and a point or object. The reference datum also often varies according to the context...
of 639 metres and covers an area
Area
Area is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape in the plane. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat...
of 19.117 km² . It has a population
Population
A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...
of about 3,770 people.
Famous people
- (Berzeviczei és Kakaslomniczi) Berzeviczy family
- Gergely Berzeviczy (1763–1822), a Hungarian political economist
- Sámuel Augustini (born 1729)
- György Buchholtz (born 1725) (hu)
- Andor Nitsch (1883-1976), member of the Czechoslowakian Parliament (1925-1938) for the Zipser German party
- Adolf BurgerAdolf BurgerAdolf Burger Adolf Burger Adolf Burger (born August 12, 1917, Kakaslomnic (aka Nagy-Lomnicz, , , Comitate of Szepes, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire) is a Jewish Slovak typographer, memoir writer, and Holocaust survivor involved in Operation Bernhard...
(born 1917), a Jewish The HolocaustThe HolocaustThe Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
survivor and writer, whose memoirs were made into an OscarAcademy Award for Best Foreign Language FilmThe Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
winning movie
External links
- http://www.velkalomnica.sk