Oravská Lesná
Orava Lesná (until 1945 slovak " Erdúdka " - to 1927 " Erdutka "; Hungarian Erdőtka - to 1895 Erdődka, formerly Polish Herdućka ) is one consisting of a village community of about 3,100 inhabitants in the eastern part of the district Námestovo in Slovakia.
Characteristics
The municipality borders administratively to the north by Poland, the border to the west form the district boundaries after Čadca and Žilina.
The town has two hotels (Hotel Tyrapol, Penzion Severka ), each with a restaurant and pub as well as several village pubs.
Orava Lesná is known as the cold pole Slovakia. In winter, temperatures drop quite up to -35 degrees Celsius; Snow depths of over two meters are not uncommon.
Orava Lesná is one of the few places in Slovakia, where one still speaks the old mining dialect Goralisch next to the Slovak language.
History
The place consists of multiple, formerly independent towns, which string together in the valley of the upper reaches of the river Biela Orava ( White Arwa ) to a 6 -km-long site. By the end of 1920, these villages were independent and formed around the historic nucleus Ústredie (translated center of Orava ... Lesná ) (then Erdúdka ). Their names have been preserved in the names of districts:
- Brišovka
- Bučina
- Demanova
- Flajšová
- Jasenovská
- Kubínska
- Lehotská
- Mrzáčka
- Ústredie Oravská Lesná
- Pribišská
- Tanečník
The nucleus Oravská Lesná was founded in 1731 by Georg Erdoedy as a logging town, hence the place was called earlier Erdúdka (such as " Erdoedy village" ). The place was connected to 1972 on a narrow-gauge turn - Waldeisenbahn with Vychylovka. With it, especially timber on the Beskydy westwards was brought up Oščadnica. In 2008 the track was taken from the Orava Lesná - Tanečník station to the breakpoint on the Beskid Pass as a museum railway again.
Tesla
In the 1960s, the former state-owned Tesla established in the remote mountain village under the company Tesla Orava based in Nižná a production facility for electrical appliances, the former Czechoslovakia furnished with televisions and computers since 1980.
Today Oravská Lesná participate with several independent and competing production companies for electronic assemblies a special position among the villages of Slovakia, since there no longer farming but modern electronics production ( SMD technology) dominates the community.