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Poľanovce is a village and municipality in Levoča District in the Prešov Region of central-eastern Slovakia.

In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1270

The municipality lies at an altitude of 590 metres and covers an area of 16.617km². It has a population of about 156 people.

 Poľanovce - history 

Poľanovce are first time mentioned in the year 1270, when it was given by hungarian king Belo IV. to Fióko, son of Uro, in exchange for the tower of Spiš Castle. Poľanovce belongedto different landlords. From the 18th century it was families Jencsa, Almássy and others. In the year 1787 had 36 houses and 305 inhabitants and in the year 1828 had 55 houses and 397 inhabitants. People from village worked in agriculture, carting and burning of wooden coal. For the time of the first Czechoslovakia character of the village has changed. Today part of the population is working in industry in Spišská Nová Ves and Košice.

Roman-Catholic church of the Assumtion of Virgin Mary in Poľanovce

The church of the Assumption of Virgin Mary in Poľanovce has retained originally gothic layout. Tower dates from the late 17th century. In the year 1765 in the church vaults were built. There isalso a tombstones from the year 1442 and from the year 1661.

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Sihot

Poľanovce - nature

Cave Devil's hole

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In the middle of a mountain Branisko, 300 m below the confluence of the creek Velka Svinka („Great Piggies“) and Dolny potok („Lower Creek“) and 500 m above the saddleback Branisko, at an altitude of 748 m is due to mechanical erosion of the karst has developed a remarkable phenomenon - a system of dive-cave and outflow-cave Diablova diera („Devil's Hole“). Outflow called Bystrík is on the other side of the ridge at an altitude of 720m. The entrance is a significant overhang and is located about 20 m from the dam which was constructed as hydrological measuring profile. Overhang entrance is small size and passes through two narrow and steep rapids. Behind the rapids there is arc corridor of about 120 m. Corridor is initially 10 m wide, is low and slightly declining. Later extended, sharply falls and creates a relatively large room. At the end the stream disappears in the siphon. In the hall there is remarkable pebble-sand sediments, which are constantly changing size and shape, depending on frequent torrential rains last years. Water is then appearing on the other side of the ridge in a few outflows. Main outflow is relatively low and narrow and creates new creek Diablov potok („Devil's Creek“). North of the main outflow is a smaller and a little outflow.

Bifurcation of creek Velka svinka

In the area of Devil's Hole there is bifurcation of creek Velka Svinka. This means that part of the water turns to the west and disappears in the striking dive and part of water continues south and then south-easterly direction. In this case the left stream (from the viewpoint of the bifurcation) is flowing as river Svinka from saddleback Branisko, drains the eastern part of the slope, then flows trough Saris highlands, mountain chain Cierna hora and flows into the river Hornad. Right stream is losing in the cave Diablova diera after a few meters and flows across the mountain ridge in the dolomite bedrock. On the west side of mountain the springs in several places, as the Diablov potok flows down to village Polanovce, here it flows into a creek Branisko, which is the confluence with Zehrica and Margecianka. Eventually water is flows into the river Hornad. Water from a single stream thus gets into the same river in two ways, a paradox is that "deviated" part of the water from the Diablova diera reaches river Hornad much sooner than the main stream of Svinka.
River bifurcation occurs when a river flowing in a single stream separates into two or more separate streams which continue downstream. Some rivers form complex networks of distributaries, especially in their deltas. If the streams eventually merge again, then the bifurcation forms an island.

Rajtopiky

Natural reservation Rajtopiky is located on Branisko mountain ridge. Lots of natural beauties, concentrated in relatively small area, are accessible by green-marked path. Rajtopiky peak is reaching altitude of 1036m and is surrounded by many rock formations. Those formations created very interesting, occasionally hard-passable terrain. There’s also famous stone window, one of the most beautiful in Slovakia. Marked path is crossing this window. The hight of opening is approx. 3m.

From Rajtopiky mountain ridge steep slopes are falling down to two small villages down under – Dubrava and Harakovce. This is a home of many protected plants and animals (for example lynx or wolf) and that’s why this area was declarated as natural reservation already in 1982.

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