Gemer (village)

Gemer (Hungarian Sajógömör - by the end of the 18th century without the additional name Gömör ) is a smaller community in Okres Revúca in central Slovakia.

It is located 4 km north of Tornaľa in great Juhoslovenská kotlina ( Südslowakischer boiler) on the right bank of the river Slaná (Hungarian Sajó ).

The place was ( also German Gemersburg ) founded in the 12th century as a settlement at the foot of the castle of the same and is first mentioned in writing in 1198 as Gumur. The castle was rebuilt after the Mongol invasion ( 1241 ), and more secured. In the 14th century the place then became the seat of the county of the same name, and retained this status until the 18th century. In the 15th century Gemer was raised to the market town. The castle was conquered in the 15th century by the Hussites, before it was finally destroyed in the 16th century during the Turkish wars.

Until 1918/1920 the place was part of the county Gemer and small Hont in the Kingdom of Hungary and later became part of Czechoslovakia. 1938-1945 he was as a result of the First Vienna Award once again part of Hungary.

In the village is a neo-Gothic church dating back to 1882, which replaced the former Evangelical Church (1510 ) and a late-baroque country castle from the 18th century.

The population consists largely of a Hungarian-speaking majority ( 83.09 %) and a Slovak minority ( 11.48 %), and there are also some Roma ( 5.19% ) ( 2001 census).