Nálepkovo, formerly Vondrišel (, ) is a village and municipality in the

Gelnica District Gelnica (district) (, ) is a district in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia. It was established in 1923. Between 1960–1996 the district has been a part of the Spišská Nová Ves District Spišská Nová Ves District () is a district in the ...

in the

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of eastern

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. Total municipality population was in 2011 inhabitants. Previously, the village was named Vondrišel, but in 1948 after the German population was expelled it was renamed Nálepkovo, after the

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Slovak

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Ján Nálepka Ján Nálepka (20 September 1912 in Szepessümeg, Kingdom of Hungary – 16 November 1943 in Ovruch, Operation Barbarossa, Axis powers-occupied Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) was a Slovakia, Slovak captain who organized and led an Anti-fascism, a ...

. 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

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, 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; in 2018 it was revealed that Harcar had been transferred to a Slovakian prison.

References

External links

Touristic page of Nálepkovo

Official homepage

Villages and municipalities in Gelnica District Romani communities in Slovakia {{Košice-geo-stub