zvolen aka altsohl, SK

my dear readers, as you probably know, all saints is time to visit our family's graves in eastern slovakia, dont you? on the way i've visited the city of zvolen (altsohl) in central slovakia. why zvolen? well, last year i've seen the beautiful mining city banska bystrica (its old german name was neusohl), so i was curious if there is a city called sohl or altsohl as well. the answer? the old sohl aka altsohl is the city of zvolen today ... well, living in czechoslovakia, we did not know the former german names of cities / villages / mountains / rivers / etc. few miles away from our home as the german culture / language / minority and thus history of huge parts of czechoslovakia's past were not preserved well after the lost WWII, you know? 

anyway, dont loose your time on altsohl, better visit the much, much nicer neusohl (banska bystrica), my dears ... or the nearby mining cities of kremnitz (kremnica) with the oldest still active mint (münzprägeanstalt) in the world or the unesco heritage schemnitz (banska stiavnica). or all 3 of them. will you? 😊

the altsohl castle in zvolen was build by the hungarian king 

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

there is ice-hockey + industry, esp. the timber factory bucina zvolen

this also could be the nearby ironworks zeleziarne podbrezova (?!?)

zvolen (altsohl)

zvolen (altsohl)

what a tasty dinner in zvolen we have had!

slovakia's route 66 (from hungary to poland)

stratena, central slovakia

traditional wooden houses in SK

spitzenberg + einsiedel a.d.G. (mnisek n/H), eastern slovakia, SK

einsiedel an der göllnitz (mnisek nad hnilcom), SK

the confluence of göllnitz (hnilec) and schmöllnitzer bach

(smolnicky potok) in einsiedel

i💖 grund + this beautiful woman. this is a joke, of course. i've found her by coincidence

somewhere on the internet in november 2024. it is strange, because i've not searched for

neuhaus or the hotel alte innbrücke, where we've been already soo often in the past.

einsiedel an der göllnitz (mnisek nad hnilcom) - part 'grund'

cemetery (totengarten), einsiedel an der göllnitz

our family graves ... R.I.P, dear mom + grandma + grandpa

bratislava castle. i've spent also few days by my youngest brother, you see?  

on the road in SK 🚗

good-bye, my native slovakia ... i hope to see you soon again 

more pictures here.

all hollows 2023 in SK here.

slovensko - SK - slovakia

well, because of the illness (alzheimer disease) of my mother i quite often visit slovakia recently, i have been there probably already 6 times this year.

there were also 3 special occasions:

• holidays with my mother in her home village einsiedel in eastern slovakia (late april / early may 2017)
• wedding party of my friend in modra (late may 2017)
• classmates hangout in the hills of rohace (liptov, orava) regarding 30 years anniversary of our high school graduation (late june 2017)

my most interesting insight out there? the nature in slovakia is still fantastic, probably because except the area of the capital bratislava is the remaining land really sparsely inhabited (by world's most dangerous species, the homo sapiens, of course).

enjoy few pictures ;o)

castle slovenska lupca

brezno

stratena

einsiedel / mnisek nad hnilcom

spitzenberg mountain over einsiedel

smolnik (schmöllnitz)

the einsiedel area is a structurally weak and thus also a very cheap place, 1 beer = 1 euro in the nicest local pub

my mother's parents house is not longer inhabited by family members

crazy me, swimming in teich on may, 1st => coooold 

hnilec river (göllnitz river) ... good-bye, einsiedel

bratislava

bratislava castle

fico chrani zlodejov / premier fico protects thieve(s) (who got much, much more (2 million euros) as tax pay back out of their luxury bonaparte apartment than the apartments really cost => everything is possible in slovakia if the government link works fine)

appartments bonaparte, bratislava

strma cesta = my favorite street in bratislava

modra

vineyards in modra

old city walls (approx. 2 km still preserved)

modra's old city gate

let's go to pajstun castle in the male karpaty mountains. 

the destruction of the castle (together with devin castle) was ordered by napoleon bonaparte

spa pistian (= piestany)

liptovske matiasovce

huty

 

 our nice stay in huty - penzion rohacan

an old mill

well, it is probably rather a winter resort, if you asked me

our new friend

biela skala, 1316 m (for the sivy vrch (1805 m) tour was the time too short. maybe next time)

biela skala, 1316 m 

lake liptovska mara (liptov - liptau), SK

more pictures HERE

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