Huncovce

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Location of Kežmarok District in the Prešov region

Huncovce (Hungarian: Hunfalva, til 1902: Hunfalu, German: Hunsdorf, Hunszdorf, Hundsdorf in der Zips, Hunzdorf, Hunesdorf,[1] Yiddish: אונסדאָרףֿ Unsdorf, Hebrew: אונסדורף‎, Latin: Villa Canis, Hunisvilla) is a village and municipality in Kežmarok District in the Prešov Region of north Slovakia.

History

Etymology

In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1257.

Main history

Jewish history

Main article: History of the Jews in Slovakia

Geography

The municipality lies at an altitude of 639 metres and covers an area of 13.262 km². It has a population of about 2400 people.

People

  • David Friesenhausen (1750, Friesenhausen - 1828, Gyulafehérvár/Alba Iulia), a Jewish Bavarian-Hungarian Talmudist, scientist, mathematician, Hebrew-language writer; lived here[2]
  • Solomon Winter (Hungarian: Winter Salamon; 1778, ?, in the Szepes - ), Jewish Hungarian philanthropist; lived and died here
  • Izsák Frankl (Hungarian: Frankl Izsák; ? - 1834, Nagykároly), rabbi[3]
  • Mór Billnitzer (Hungarian: Billnitzer Mór; 19th century), a Jewish doctor[4]
  • Izsák Billitzer (Hungarian: Billitzer Izsák; 1801 - Nagyida (Slovak: Veľká Ida), 1887), rabbi[5]
  • Adolf Altmann (1879, born here - 1944, KZ Auschwitz), a Hungarian-German rabbi[6]
  • Ernst Bethlenfalvy Hungarian: Bethlenfalvy Ernő; 1879, Kežmarok - 1955, natural scientist, zoologist, lived here[7]
  • József Czitron (Hungarian: Czitron József; 1895, Hajdúdorog - 1957), rabbi[8]
  • Meir Ascher Roth (Yiddish: מאיר אשר ראטה), rabbi
  • Shmuel Rosenberg (Hebrew: שמואל רוזנברג‎), rabbi
  • Jewish and other families like Unsdorf, Insdorf, Unsdorfer, Insdorfer, and Hunsdorfer
  • Hunsdorfer/Hunfalvy family, originally Zipser German[9]
    • Pál Hunfalvy, born Paul Hunsdorfer; 1810, Nagyszalók (German: Großschlagendorf, Slovak: Veľký Slavkov) - 1891, Budapest), a Hungarian Zipser German linguist, ethnographer, historian[10]
    • János Hunfalvy, born János Hunsdorfer; 1820, Nagyszalók - 1888, Budapest), a Hungarian Zipser German geographer[11]

See also

  • Unsdorf, a Haredi Jewish neighborhood of Jewish Hungarian descent in Jerusalem
Similar place names and family names
  • Hunsdorf
  • Hundsdorf, Bavarian placename
    • Hundsdorf
    • Hundsdorf(f)er, Hundsdörf(f)er, Hundstorfer (e.g. Rudolf Hundstorfer (born 1951, Vienna), an Austrian politician[12])

References

  1. ↑ https://portal.gov.sk/Portal/sk/Default.aspx?CatID=109&cityID=523526
  2. ↑ (de), http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=421&letter=F
  3. ↑ hu:Frankl Izsák
  4. ↑ hu:Billnitzer Mór
  5. ↑ hu:Billitzer Izsák
  6. ↑ de:Adolf Altmann
  7. ↑ de:Ernst Bethlenfalvy
  8. ↑ hu:Czitron József
  9. ↑ hu:Hunfalvy
  10. ↑ (de)
  11. ↑ (de)
  12. ↑ de:Rudolf Hundstorfer

External links

Municipalities of Kežmarok District
Slovakia

Coordinates: 49°07′N 20°23′E / 49.117°N 20.383°E / 49.117; 20.383

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