Juraj Jánošík

Juraj Jánošík (also: Jur, Juro, Jurko Jánošík, Polish: Jerzy Janosik, ungar: György Janosik; born January 25, 1688 in Terchová, † March 18, 1713 in Liptovsky Mikulas ) was a Slovak bandit leader and national hero of the Slovaks.

Biography

Juraj Jánošík (then a part of Royal Hungary / Kingdom of Hungary) was born in Terchová in Slovakia. He fought from 1706 to 1708 with the kuruc, then with the state army and was then the head of a forest robber group in the northwest of the Hungarian Kingdom. He was taken in 1712 Hrachov, but where he managed to escape. In the spring of 1713 he was again captured and in Liptovsky Mikulas (German: Sankt Nikolaus in the Liptau; Hungarian: Liptószentmiklós ) imprisoned. His trial took place on 16 and 17 March 1713. The next day he was executed by hanging on a hook, which was drilled through his ribs.

Legend

Jánošík embodies a Slovak version of Robin Hood or William Tell, he stands up for the rights of the impoverished mountain people.

There are various anecdotes and stories about the fictional character Jánošík. In most it is represented as a tall, well-built shepherd who thinks more with the heart than with the head. There is also a Polish television series called Janosik, hero of the mountains from 1973, which was also sent to Germany.

Movies

Painting

Juraj Jánošík is a very important issue in the Slovak painting, for example, Janko Alexy.

Others

The place Jánošíková ( since 1974 part of the municipality of Dunajská Lužná ) is named after the national hero, as settlers from the area around Terchová after 1945, the newly settled by the expulsion of the Germans depopulated area.