Nálepkovo, formerly Vondrišel (German: Wagendrüssel, Hungarian: Merény) is a village and municipality in the Gelnica District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia.[4] Total municipality population was in 2011 3,039 inhabitants.[5] 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 German: Wagendrüssel
Village
Catholic church and municipal office
Coat of arms
Nálepkovo Location of Nálepkovo in Slovakia
Coordinates: 48°51′N 20°38′E
Country	Slovakia
Region	Košice
District	Gelnica
Area
• Total	55.58[1] km2 (21.46[1] sq mi)
Elevation	590[2] m (1,940[2] ft)
Population  (2021)
• Total	3,684[3]
Postal code	053 33[2]
Area code(s)	+421 53[2]
Car plate	GL

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;[6] in 2018 it was revealed that Harcar had been transferred to a Slovakian prison.[7]

References

External links

• Touristic page of Nálepkovo (in Slovak)
• Official homepage (in Slovak)
• http://en.e-obce.sk/obec/nalepkovo/nalepkovo.html

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