Nová Baňa

Nová Baňa is a picturesque town situated in a wonderful landscape of area called Pohronie where mounts Štiavnické vrchy and Pohronský Inovec intercourse. The predominant sierra with the altitude of 901 meters above the sea level is called Pohronský Inovec, which coextends between the mountains called Tríbeč and Štiavnické vrchy. The town is located in the altitude of 221 meters above the sea level with the climate which can be characterized as mildly warm. Cadastral area of the town is quite vast because it extends to the adjoining zones of the small nearby villages and habitations which belong to the town itself.

History:

The venerable history of this royal quarrying town reflects its successive development in the exploitation of scarce metals and alternations of the town itself. The very first roots of the town are dated by the archeological findings of the mill tools in the latter Neolithic Age. In the area called Janíkove zeme was found a lithic ax from period of the middle Bronze Age dated in the year around 1500 B.C. Discoveries of the coinage from the era of the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C. document the mercantile commerces within the Roman epoch. On the turn of the post-Moravian era and the establishment of the Hungarian state, there used to be a chain of strongholds protecting the old route of Pohronie during these restless times. One of those strongholds was once a hummocky fortress called Zámčisko, which is located near Nová Baňa. In order to protect the fortress and not let the enemy inside, it was bulwarked and around the whole fortress was made an entrenchment. Both protective alternations can apparently be seen even nowadays.