kremnica - gold city in slovakia

vi have been at a family wedding in martin / slovakia, so have enjoyed the possibility to visit kremnica (kremnitz), my grandfather's birth city again ...

well, i'm not sure the wedding guests like to see / have their pictures on the internet, so i'm  going to post mostly sightseeing pictures from the the old medieval gold mining city kremnica ... btw, i have been to kremnica in 2007, but i didn't upload much data or pictures to the internet back than :-) ... just in case you would like to see how a nearby silver mining city looks like, jump to my schemnitz / banska stiavnica pictures.

 main city square

the are many, many old, old houses out there ... few hundred years old, thick walls, ... and many of them for sale as there is not much business / industry today in kremnica :-(

 

 the castle

 gate to the old city + city walls

me in the historic gold mine in the sooo interesting museum of mining + coins + money at the city square (2007)

did you know, that in kremnica is the oldest still active mint of the world? and that the geographic centre of europe is just approximately 2 km away?

more pictures here
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silver city ~ UNESCO heritage Schemnitz (Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia)

UNESCO heritage silver city Schemnitz aka Selmecbánya aka Şelmec Ban'a aka Banská Štiavnica.

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after visiting the centre of the central slovakian region, the gold + silver city neusohl aka besztercebánya aka neosolium aka Banská Bystrica few years ago and the gold city kremnitz aka Körmöcbánya aka Kremnica in 2007 and 2015 (pictures), this time we managed to spent few hours in the silver city Banská Štiavnica. well, enjoy few pictures first ... and read my blahblah if any later on. or better go to wikipedia to read more about the celts, germans, hungarians and slovaks and of course about the hills + metals which all together shaped this beautiful region, will you? wiki banska stiavnica anyway, i will ask you 3 simple questions 

1. when and where was gunpowder used for the first time in the world in a mine?
2. when and where was the first technical university in the world established?
3. how many inhabitants have had banska stiavnica in 1782 as the 3rd biggest city in the kingdom of hungary (today approximately 10,000)?

do not cheat, my dears, just put your answers as comments to this blog post below :-)

is this the hell? no, just a silver mine 😄

schemnitz (banska stiavnica) as published in the 'karpatenblatt',

the magazine for germans in slovakia, in 2024

calvary

 
main square looking downhill

main square looking uphill

zoom, zoom :-)

 

 
emblem

the old castle

the new castle

 

heaven

just to show you the difference, a gold mine looks like that:

kremnitz, 2007

as always, you can find more blog pictures in my g+ album

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