nitra + 1,000 km across slovakia, SK

nitra (neutra, nyitra) in slovakia was the city / area which i almost always left behind without really see it. not so this time 😃

my other looooong & short stops at my almost 1,000 km across slovakia, SK this time?

• pressburg (bratislava) ~ 2 days of mobile work, family, friends ~ western SK
• königberg (nova bana aka new mine) ~ minig city / area in the carpathians similar to the area where my parents were born. although i've been already in few cities of this former mining district altsohl (zvolen) + the beautiful neusohl (banska bystrica) + the unesco heritage schemnitz (banska stiavnica) + the gold mining city with the oldest still operating mint in the world kremnitz (kremnica) before, i will definitely stop by in königsberg (nova bana, újbánya, seunych, regiomontum) some day in the future. it will even be quite easy as the city is directly at the highway from bratislava to my home. okay, even 36 years after the 'color revolution' which replaced the socialist bussiness model by a capitalist one, the highway ends ways before my homelands in the east. capitalism isnt automatically better than socialism, is it?😅 ~ central SK
• moldava nad bodvou (moldau, szepsi) ~ a city with a significant hungarian minority. all other cities mentioned here were formely german settled or with a huge german population. even today there is still a german minority as not all germans were expelled out of their homelands after the lost WWII ~ southeastern SK
• jasov (jossau, joß) ~ eastern SK
• medzev (metzenseifen) ~ eastern SK
• schmöllnitz (smolnik) ~ eastern SK
• einsiedel an der göllnitz (mnisek nad hnilcom) ~ our family graves ~ eastern SK
• göllnitz (gelnica) ~ here we were just to drink few beers 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺in the evening as there is no nice pub / restaurant in einsiedel anymore ~ eastern SK
• neutra (nitra, nyitra) ~ see below

well, this time i could work two days online from my brothers place + visit ice-hockey training of his son at the slovan bratislava youth team + meet few members of my family + visit our family graves in eastern slovakia + ... 

yes, there was already snow in late november. the closest pass (pacansky kopec) over the mountains at 1,000m high was closed for the winter⛄and i had to elude via moldava (moldau) + the gypsy colony jasov (jossau, joß) + medzev (metzenseifen) to the 800m high pass stos (stoss) which is regularly cleared and open all winter.

schmöllnitz/smolnik: the orthodox church (of ukrainian chernobyl refugees

or local orthodox minority? i will learn and clarify later, promissed 😇) 

the young boys + girls of slovan bratislava ice-hockey team

pressburg - bratislava

on the road to the east

the nice castle šomoška at the toilet is maybe an idea for a 

nice stop over some other day ... of course, 

i've to look-up its location at google maps first 😇

moldava nad bodvou (moldau, szepsi)

is it already the next village jasov (jossau, joss)?

the gypsy ghetto ~ jasov (jossau, joß)

medzev (metzenseifen)

the small chapel above schmöllnitz (smolnik) donated by an 

industrialist who survived a car accident approx 100 years ago

schmöllnitz (smolnik)

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einsiedel an der göllnitz (mnisek nad hnilcom) bellow 

the spitznberg mountain 703m

the catholic church

schmöllnitzer bach (smolnicky potok)

einsiedel, part called winkl

einsiedel, the forest cemetery aka totengarten ... the small 

lutheran evangelic church is on the left side out of the picture

R.I.P dear mother

still in einsiedel

these two ladies appear at google maps when you look

for pictures abt einsidel a.d.g (mnisek n./h.)

leaving my homelands ~ there are still few traditional mountain houses in the area

on the road again ~ the mountains im central slovakia

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my last stop for dinner + sightseeing was nitra (neutra)

the agricultural university

CHEAP! a bazaar / lombard for cheap women or just for 

gems / mobile phones / watches and other valuables??

the old grand hotel and the main street

some old houses at the main street

the synagogue in nitra

the synagogue in nitra

the gallery accent

it is dinner time ~ we have been at the nice restaurant celtic cellar in the main street

it is december, winter time, sooo early dark

arts?

finally arts i liked 

good-bye, nitra (neutra), good-bye my native slovakia

very few more pictures here.

eof