BB, banska bystrica (neusohl) in SK

BB = banska bystrica (= neusohl = new sohl = besztercebánya = neosolium). could mean s.th. with salt, couldn it? btw, 'banska' means mining. just do not ask me, what could 'bystrica' really mean in slovak, i simply dont know. google translates it from slovak to german as 'stromschnelle', what is s.th. like a section of a river / creek with fast a moving water. could it be true, that BB's small bystrica river is like that before it flows into the city's main river hron? who knows? 😉

=> what a nice stop-over + lunch in this beautiful former gold + silver (+ later also copper) mining city in central slovakia on the way from einsiedel back to bratislava. we have'd beautiful sunny autumn weather, so the pictures are really nice, if you asked me.

BB, main town square with the viewing tower at the end

there is an altsohl city (= old sohl = zvolen), too. maybe thats the city i could visit next time when in slovakia, should i? well, i've been in its castle many years ago and drunk some tea in its cool cafe, but never considered to visit zvolen's city center. why not? easy! even 35 years after the end of the socialist era there is still no highway around zvolen, so the car drivers are forced to pass through its suburbs and its smelly industrial zone at the hron river (gran river) => thus i thought the whole city is nothing but ugly 😇

the altsohl castle in zvolen, SK, was build by the hungarian king 

lajos I. nagy (louis I. of hungary / ludwig der große) in the years 1370–1382

do you dare to visit also neusohl's sister mining city, the nearby unseco heritage banska stiavnica (schemnitz)? or the gold mining city with world's oldest still operating mint (= münzprägeanstalt), kremnica (kremnitz)? of course, you cant know, my grandpa was born in kremnitz and moved to einsiedel after WWII in adult age due to his job in the post's telegraph department in eastern slovakia.

pictures, pictures, pictures:

my niece and me = our dream team today

outside ...

.... inside

japanese restaurant samurai

the neusohl castle

watch out, viewing tower, we're coming 👻

finally, at the top

castle's wall & tower

good-bye, BB

sunset in a car is also nice, isnt it?

nitra, SK

more pictures here.

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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