Krupina

Krupina ( German carp, Hungarian Korpona, latin Carpona ) is a city in southern central Slovakia.

Location

The city is located on the eastern edge of the mountains Selmec ( Štiavnica Hills ) and at the south-east of Karpfener plateau ( Krupinská planina ), approximately 27 km south of Zvolen and about 200 kilometers north of Budapest.

History

In the area of the village, there was no later than during the Bronze Age a settlement site. In the Middle Ages, the Slavs were the first inhabitants. Of this also shows the Slovak Slavic toponym Krupina. In the Latin document dated 1135, one writes as river / Fluvium Corpona, in 1238 when the settlement Corpona, in 1244 as a village / villa Curpona uwa. Beginning of the 13th century ( 1238 ) were mentioned as inhabitants of the local German miners ( Saxones de Carpona ), in the same year received carp also the municipal law. Together with Trnava, which received city rights around the same year, it was thus one of the oldest (and thus the time important ) cities in Slovakia and the entire Kingdom of Hungary.

After the Mongol invasion of 1241/42 the place was inhabited again, it came to the establishment of a centralized system with a rectangular square. Already in 1244, the city was a royal city. The " Karpfener right " based on the Magdeburg law was so in the future the basis for many cities in the central and northern Slovakia ( about 30 ).

But the hoped- profitable resource deposits could not be found; so the silver and gold mining was already in the 14th century to the end. In the aftermath, the residents turned to the craft and agriculture. In addition, the city was badly drawn 20 years through the throngs of Johann Giskra ( Ján Jiskra ) affected, as in the time of the Turkish wars. The original German influenced city was dominated increasingly becoming a Hungarian- Slovak by receding from the Turks Hungarians and Slovaks. In the following years there were great fire ( 1708) and The Plague (1710 ), inflicted setbacks in the development of the city.

In the 18th century, the first schools were built, in 1918 came the place with Slovakia, but was reoccupied in 1919 by the Hungarian army and acquired until the end of summer again by Czechoslovak troops. During the Second World War worked in the vicinity of the town, the bars of the Soviet and French- led partisans. On March 3, 1945 Krupina was liberated by the Romanian and the Soviet Red Army. 1960-2002, the city was the seat of a Okres.