RUŽOMBEROK / Rózsahegy / Rosenberg is a market town at the confluence of the Revúca stream and the Váh. It was founded in the 13th century by immigrant German miners who found employment in the nearby iron, silver and lead mines. It was granted town privileges in 1318 but was annexed to the estate of Likava in 1390. Later it became a demesne of the Crown. One of the famous buildings of the town, the Zsófia mansion was originally built as a fossed earthwork at the confluence of the Revúca and the Váh. The Gothic-style St. Andrew parish church was built in the 14th century and came to be rebuilt several times but its Gothic triptych is still extant. The Piarists ran a secondary school with four junior classes in the town, which had 2500 Slovak inhabitants in the early 1850s. Owing to its location at the intersection of two main roads, Ružomberok was an important centre of county-scale trade.

Bibliography: Haury, Likava, Lovcsányi, Mednyánszky 1844, Mednyánszky 1981