| Stupava | |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Slovakia |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Bratislava |
| Subdivision Type3: | District |
| Subdivision Name3: | Malacky |
| Pushpin Map: | Slovakia Bratislava Region#Slovakia |
| Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Stupava in the Bratislava Region |
| Coordinates: | 48.2748°N 17.0317°W |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Peter Novisedlák |
| Established Title: | First mentioned |
| Established Date: | 1269 |
| Area Footnotes: | [2] |
| Area Total Km2: | 67.55 |
| Elevation M: | 178[3] |
| Elevation Ft: | 584 |
| Population Footnotes: | [4] |
| Population Total: | 12685 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset1: | +1 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 900 31 |
| Area Code: | +421 2 |
| Blank Name: | Car plate |
| Blank Info: | MA |
| Website: | www.stupava.sk |
| Area Note: | |
Stupava (German: Stampfen; Hungarian: Stomfa) is a town in western Slovakia. It is situated in the Malacky District, Bratislava Region.
The name is derived from Proto-Slavic stǫpa (Slovak: stupa) - a wooden bowl carved from a tree trunk, but also the name of various crushing and pressing tools.[5]
The town is located in the Záhorie lowland, under the Little Carpathians, around 15km (09miles) north of Bratislava at an altitude of 182 metres. It has 15, 095 inhabitants as of 2021 and has a land area of 67.17km2. Apart from the core part of the city, Mást (German: Maaßt, Hungarian: Mászt), located just south of the core part of the city, is another part of Stupava. It has been initially a separate village with ethnic Croatian majority, which was formally annexed by Stupava in 1953.[6]
However, traces of habitation go back to the Bronze Age, and the first known inhabitants were the Celts. The Romans built a military station as a part of the near Limes Romanus on the Danube. The first written mention about the town was in 1269 in a document of the King Béla IV under name Ztumpa. In the second half of the 13th century the now-ruined Pajštún Castle in the Little Carpathians was built. It was developing mainly as an agricultural and trading settlement. The name of the town comes from the pressing mills called stupa on the Stupavský potok brook, which were used for extracting oil from flax and hemp.
According to the 2021 census, the town had 12 595 inhabitants. 96.7% of inhabitants were Slovaks, 1% Czechs and 0.5% Hungarians.[7] The religious makeup was 70.4% Roman Catholics, 19.5% people with no religious affiliation and 2% Lutherans.[7]
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Slovakia.
Ivančice, Czech Republic Kuřim, Czech Republic
Łowicz, Poland
Nagykovácsi, Hungary