Detva
Detva (Hungarian Gyetva - to 1882 Dettva ) is a town in central Slovakia with a population of 15,062 (as of 31 December 2011).
Geography
The city is located in the eastern part of the basin Zvolenska kotlina along the creek Detviansky creek at the mouth of the Slatina in the landscape Podpoľanie. The 68 km ² large municipality covers includes not only the city proper and parts of the surrounding region, which protrudes into the mountains Polana and Javorie and a number of individual farms (Slovak regional lazy ). Outside the built-up areas, two-thirds of its territory free areas or areas of arable land, about a quarter is occupied by forests. The city center lies at an altitude of 400 m nm and is 25 km away from Zvolen, 40 km from Banská Bystrica and 220 km from Bratislava ( road distance ).
Detva consists of the following 8 districts:
- Detva
- Detva - sídlisko
- Kostolná
- Krné
- I Piešť
- Piešť II
- Skliarovo
- Zapriechody
The following information refers to the air line to the nearest town, and the distances are rounded to the nearest half kilometers. Cities are highlighted in bold.
History
Despite a permanent settlement since the late Bronze Age and during the Celtic, Roman and Great Moravian periods, the current urban area was empty since the last settlement went down in the 10th or 11th century. The present town was founded in 1638 on the territory of the dominion of Vígľaš, probably as a result of the Wallachian colonization.
1787 founded Ján Vagáč the first known sheep cheese - dairy in today's Slovakia. 1811 the village became a market town, with the right to organize four years markets annually. Coinciding with the certificate Detva was probably also his coat of arms. The municipality was formerly much larger: 1804 divided the place Detvianska Huta, followed 1890/91 of the present city Hriňová and 1995, the municipality Kriváň.
1869 had 10,043 inhabitants Detva, after the spin-off of Hriňová in 1890, 6,273 inhabitants. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the population was engaged in agriculture, forestry, sheep farming and small-scale manufacturers. Nevertheless, high unemployment has forced many inhabitants to move abroad. During the Slovak National Uprising during World War II here, the only military parade of partisans took place afterwards was Detva and surrounding area until the occupation by Soviet and Romanian Army on March 12, 1945 the scene of heavy fighting.
In the 1950s Detva experienced a great change: 1955 the machine shop Podpolianske strojárne was founded, which brought with it thousands of jobs in the city. To be fair to the population growth, housing estates have been built since the 1960s. 1965 city status was granted. 1971 saw the city of 10,799 inhabitants, almost double the number compared to 1950 ( 5,728 inhabitants). In 1991, the city reached the 15,000 - population threshold.
The machines work suffered in the 1990s by economic difficulties and fell in 1997 as a private company in insolvency. Although the Company referred to as PPS Group since 2003, survived the bankruptcy, they had the majority of workers laid off, which significantly increased unemployment. 1996 Detva seat of a Okres.
Population
According to the census 2011 (15.046 inhabitants) and according to the census 2001 (15.122 inhabitants) in parentheses lived in the town of 13,092 Slovaks (2001: 14,534 ), 134 Roma ( 2001: 249 ), 70 Czechs (2001: 113), 24 Magyars ( 2001: 36) and more. With 1,671 inhabitants, no indication exists (2001: 172). After confession to 10,240 residents known to the Roman Catholic Church (2001: 11,800 ), the Evangelical Church AB 532 (2001: 667 ), and in smaller numbers to others. 1,939 inhabitants declared themselves religious affiliation (2001: 1,982 ) and 2,101 inhabitants is not specified before (2001: 503).
Sights and culture
At the old village reminds the Roman Catholic Church of St. Francis of Assisi, built in 1803 /04, which replaced an older church of 1664. Other religious monuments are late baroque statues John of Nepomuk and St. Florian. At the edge of the city and in the individual courts can find examples of the regional vernacular.
1994 oriented to the folklore museum named Podpolianske múzeum was established in the city. Detva is however best known for the distinctive folklore. Since 1966 takes place on the second weekend in July, the Folk Festival folklórne slávnosti pod Poľanou, among other festivals throughout the year. Furthermore, popular items like the costume, which Fujara and Holzhauerei part of popular culture.
Traffic
The city Detva is reachable by a branch from the state road 50 ( Zvolen - Lučenec, E 571 ), next to trains stop on the railway line Salgótarján - Vrútky (chain Zvolen - Fiľakovo ) at the train station on the southern edge of the city. The nearest airport is in Sliač. In the future, the construction of the expressway R2 is planned.