coming closer to my ancestors' place and visiting next mining city in the area, Gelnica (Göllnitz) in the region spis (zips) in eastern slovakia ~ gold, silver, copper, iron ore, lead, quicksilver, ...
a praying miner in front of the mining museum
a hammer instead of a cross on the top of the local church? yes, the people here used to believe in mining, if you asked me 😄
praying miner
1230 came the germans to this part of eastern slovakia because of an invitation by hungarian king after the mongols (wrongly named tatars?) killed huge parts of the slavic polulation here
source: the wikipedia page about freiberg, erzgebirge, saxony, DE
part of the city square + the surrounding hills
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