Nálepkovo | |
Other Name: | de|Wagendrüssel |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Slovakia |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Košice |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Gelnica |
Pushpin Map: | Slovakia |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Nálepkovo in Slovakia |
Coordinates: | 48.85°N 58°W |
Area Total Km2: | 55.58[1] |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 21.46 |
Elevation M: | 590[2] |
Elevation Ft: | 1,940 |
Population Total: | 3684[3] |
Population Density Km2: | 65.79[4] |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 25.40 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 053 33 |
Area Code: | +421 53 |
Blank Name: | Car plate |
Blank Info: | GL |
Nálepkovo, formerly Vondrišel (de|Wagendrüssel, hu|Merény) is a village and municipality in the Gelnica District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia.[5] Total municipality population was in 2011 inhabitants.[6] 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;[7] in 2018 it was revealed that Harcar had been transferred to a Slovakian prison.[8]