Nálepkovo

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Nálepkovo
German: Wagendrüssel
Village
Catholic church and municipal office
Catholic church and municipal office
Coat of arms of Nálepkovo
Coat of arms
Nálepkovo is located in Slovakia
Nálepkovo
Nálepkovo
Location of Nálepkovo in Slovakia
Coordinates: 48°51′N 20°38′E / 48.850°N 20.633°E / 48.850; 20.633Coordinates: 48°51′N 20°38′E / 48.850°N 20.633°E / 48.850; 20.633
CountrySlovakia
RegionKošice
DistrictGelnica
Population
 (2011)
 • Total3,039
Postal code
053 33
Car plateGL

Nálepkovo, formerly Vondrišel (German: Wagendrüssel, Hungarian: Merény) is a village and municipality in the Gelnica District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia.[1] Total municipality population was in 2011 3,039 inhabitants.[2] Previously, the village was named Vondrišel, but in 1948 after the German population was expelled it was renamed Nálepkovo, after the anti-fascist Slovak captain Ján Nálepka.

Nálepkovo is also the birthplace of the Queen's Park killer Marek Harcar who carried out the brutal murder of Moira Jones in 2008 in Glasgow, Scotland. He fled back to Nálepkovo after the incident but was linked to the crime, traced and returned to Scotland. He is now serving a life sentence after being tried and found guilty in 2009;[3] in 2018 it was revealed that Harcar had been transferred to a Slovakian prison.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ http://en.e-obce.sk/obec/nalepkovo/nalepkovo.html
  2. ^ http://portal.statistics.sk/files/obce-pohl-vek.pdf
  3. ^ "Catching the park killer who vanished 'like a ghost'". BBC News. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Moira Jones killer to serve rest of his sentence in native homeland". Evening Times. 13 May 2018. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

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