Lomnička (Stará Ľubovňa District)

Lomnička (Slovak in the 19th century " Mala Lomnica "; Kleinlomnitz German, Hungarian Kislomnic ) is a municipality in Prešov kraj Okres Stara Ľubovňa of the north- eastern Slovakia, with a population of 2754 (31 December 2011 ).

Geography

Lomnička lies on the northwestern edge of the Levočské mountains in the small valley of the brook Lomnička which opens a little downriver in Poprad. The center is four kilometers from Podolínec and 20 km from Stara Ľubovňa.

History

The town was first mentioned in 1294 as Parva Lompnicha writing and was established under German law. He remained a Untertanenort until the end of feudalism in the Kingdom of Hungary in the 19th century. 1785 Lomnička separated from the mother church Toporec and built a church of their own. So there was a Protestant and a Catholic church, equally two schools. 1828 had 161 houses and 1160 inhabitants Lomnička and was dominated by agriculture. In the years 1813 and 1867 the village is burned for the most part. 1873, many residents victims of cholera. 1880 lived in the village of 913 inhabitants, of whom 830 were German, 38 Slovaks and 45 other ethnicity. The Confession concerning 712 were Protestant, 168 Catholic and 33 Israelite.

After 1918, the in- county Zips place came to Czechoslovakia. 1944 was the population 912 Until 1945 there was far from the village access to the left on a hill near the Lomnitzbach an independent Roma settlement. Shortly before the end of the Second World War the German inhabitants, who formed the majority in the community until then, evacuated by the German authorities, as the Eastern Front approached. Instead of the German Roma were settled from surrounding communities here.

A part of the municipality in 1953 ceded to the military area Javorina which was dissolved on 1 January 2011 and reintegrated into the community area.

Today, the village is inhabited almost exclusively by members of the Roma. Although the 2001 census population of 1,516 90.96 % 7.45% Slovaks and Roma (but see 1991 census: 972 inhabitants, of whom 77.78 % and 22.12% Slovaks, Roma ). December 31, 2010 Lomnička had 2237 inhabitants.

Attractions

• Baroque early Gothic Roman Catholic St. Catherine's Church from the period around 1300, in the 18th century

Personalities

• Jacob Melzer ( born May 16, 1782 † January 25, 1836 ) ( Evangelical pastor in Kleinlomnitz, writer, historian )
• John Vansa ( born June 21, 1846, † June 22, 1922 ) ( Evangelical pastor in Kleinlomnitz 1875-1882 ) husband of Terezia Vansova
• Terézia Vansová ( born April 18, 1857 † October 10, 1942 ) (Slovak writer, lived in Kleinlomnitz 1875-1882 )