Hauerland
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Hauerland is the name for a region presently located in central Slovakia (Slovak Republic) once inhabited by a German minority population belonging to three islands of German pre-WWII population in Slovakia. The other two were situated in Pressburg (Bratislava) and Zips (Spiš). The center of this region was Kremnitz (Kremnica), a gold mining city with medieval history and importance for Hungarian kingdom. In the 19th century, coal sources were discovered in Krickerhau (Handlová) region. A number of villages, mostly spread out in the mountainous and hilly areas, were agricultural and developed a special kind of German subculture.
