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The municipality of Smolník
The municipality of Smolník is situated in
a narrow valley of Smolnícky potok in the central part
of the mountain range of Spišsko-gemerské rudohorie
at the height of 561 m above seal level; its surface
area is 6,976 ha and it has 1,260 inhabitants.
The valley of Smolnícka dolina is narrow; it
lacks arable soil and has unfavourable conditions for
agriculture. Therefore the source of living of its
inhabitants has been the woods, pastures and
especially the mining industry. The last tons of ore
were mined in Smolník in 1990 and thus the famous
and long era of ore deposits and the mining industry in
Smolník ended.
The valley of Smolnícky potok is delimited by
Veľký Vtáčí Vrch (1,046 m above sea level) in the
north, by Zenderlin and Tupý Vrch, with the height of
1,031 and 1,046 m respectively, in the south, and by
the principal ridge of Slovenské rudohorie Pánsky
Vrch, 1,058 m, Hekerová, 1,260 m in the west.
Tobacco factory
Brief history
The tobacco factory in Smolník is the only
tobacco factory in Slovakia. Large premises of
a massive building, where the Mining Chamber and the
first theatre with a turning stage in Europe had their
seats, were, after the local resources of silver and
copper were mined out, rebuilt into a cigar production
factory in 1872.
The old manufacturing factory used to employ
1,872 women what back then represented aboveaverage employment in the entire municipality and its
surroundings. Men made their living by timber
production. This work distribution persists without any
change, however, with a lower rate of employment.
Women are more suitable for this type of work.
The significance of the factory in Smolník
producing hand-wrapped cigars is proven by the fact
that its employees were at the time of the monarchy
and of the Czechoslovak Republic considered as state
employees and they were protected by tenure. When
the production started, the building also held
a maternity school for children of the female packers.
Thus the tradition of rolling of quality, nicely scenting
cigars was transferred from generation to generation.
Whole dynasties of skilful packers were born. The
production itself, interrupted only by a short break
lasting for approximately one week during the Second
World War and invoked by the walling in of the
tobacco warehouses due to a fear of plunder, has been
going on until the present days. It has not been
influenced neither by economic crises, politics, nor
military conflicts.
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Basic data
The site is located in the central part of
Smolník, whereas its eldest buildings – administrative
building and old production building – constitute the
principal landmarks of the Main Square. The remaining
part of the site consisting of the plot no. 88/1 slightly
descends to the valley of Smolnícky potok. This fact is
also confirmed by the majority of the buildings which
on their southern side have entrances usually at the
level of the ground-floor, whereas from the northern
side the entrance is at the level of the basement. The
real estate is registered in the List of Titles No. 320,
cadastral territory of Smolník. The site is enclosed by
two types of fences; a part of the lands contains built,
hardened storage, parking and handling areas. At
present, the buildings are empty since the production
of cigars was stopped. The vicinity of the site includes
especially housing constructions since Smolník is
a small municipality with 1,270 inhabitants. The
housing constructions are of average technical
condition, whereas all buildings underwent significant
reconstructions, they are connected to a new boilerhouse; they have new plastic windows, sanitary
facilities, etc. The connection to public municipal and
state roads is favourable; all buildings are connected
to all available utility networks. These constructions
may be used for lease only partially since they are
situated in a municipality with a high rate of
unemployment, low purchasing power of the
population and with conflict groups within the
community.
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Layout
The layout of the individual buildings situated in
the site according to numbers is marked in the copy of
the land map that shows the composition of the site.
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Old production building
Already in 1871, the place of today`s old
production building was taken by a two-storey high
brick building with cellars which was most probably
supplemented by another storey around the year 1900
since this building completely burned down in 1905
and the photo-documentation from that period clearly
confirms that on the side of the Main Square the
building was a three-storey high brick construction
with cellars and three short additional annexes. The
roof of the building was a saddle roof; the ceilings of
the upper three storeys were made of wood. After the
fire, the building was fully reconstructed and most
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probably used to serve in the same form until 1993
when the building, as a cultural historical monument,
was fully reconstructed on the roof, façade and other
typical construction elements. Today, the ceilings of
the assessed building are predominantly made of
concrete, the windows are double-paned windows, the
floors are partially made of PVC, partially of parquet
wood and the remaining part is made of concrete
floors with ceramic tiles and cement surface coating.
The roof is equipped with a concrete roof covering.
The building is connected to all available utility
networks; it has a water distribution system, a
sewerage system, central heating and electrical
installations with the voltage of 220 and 380 V. In
1975, the side wings at the basement level were
supplemented by two garage canopies.
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Administrative building, Registration No.
167
To the left from the entrance to the site of
Imperial Tobacco Slovakia Smolník, there is a threestorey brick administrative building the age of which
was in cooperation with the competent employees of
the assignor and on the basis of a submitted
confirmation of the age of constructions estimated to
98 years. The construction is built on the plot no.
88/1, whereas it has its own individual registration no.
167.
From the construction point of view, the
building is a massive brick construction (the walling in
the lower part of the construction is of the width of
more than 100 cm) with double-paned windows, panel
doors, stone staircases, wooden roof load-bearing
construction with concrete, sandwich roof covering.
The building contains administrative, as well as small
accommodation premises. The building is connected to
all available utility networks.
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Fitter`s shop
In
1969,
the
whole
site
underwent
a considerable reconstruction and modernization.
Within the framework of the works performed in this
period, a fitter`s shop and an additional warehouse
directly connected to the boiler-house were added. As
it results from the attached ground-plan and volume
schemes, the given building could form a functional
unit with the boiler-house.
The building has the form of a hall with a brick
external cladding and a roof construction on steel bar
joists. The building is heated by the nearby boilerhouse. The windows are steel double-paned windows;
the doors are plain steel and wooden doors. The
flooring is mainly made of concrete, the plasters are
whitewashed. The building is connected to all available
utility networks.
Boiler-house
A boiler-house was built in the same period as
the fitter`s shop and currently burns wooden waste,
whereas combustion gases are taken away by waste
gas flues through separators into the brick factory
chimney of the height of 35.6 m.
The building has the form of a hall with a brick
external cladding and a roof construction on steel bar
joists. The windows are steel double-paned windows;
the doors are plain steel and wooden doors. The
flooring is mainly made of concrete, the plasters are
whitewashed.
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Boarding-house
One of the eldest buildings of the site was
reconstructed in 1974 and the former maternity school
was transformed into a boarding house for visitors and
a wood workshop. The submitted confirmation of the
age of buildings clearly shows that the building was
originally launched into use in 1910. From the ground
plan point of view, the building is made of two
interlocked wings forming the letter L.
It
is
a simple,
two-storey
high
brick
construction and its roof is covered with Eternit. The
external façade plaster is slightly damped, the
windows are simple wooden windows, the doors are
simple wooden doors and the building has sheet-metal
constructions such as water-troughs and downpipes.
The entrance to the building is assured by concrete
stairs. The building also contains a small kitchen.
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Wood workshop
One of the eldest buildings of the site was
reconstructed in 1974 and the former maternity school
was transformed into a boarding house for visitors and
a wood workshop. The submitted confirmation of the
age of buildings clearly shows that the building was
originally launched into use in 1910. From the ground
plan point of view, the building is made of two
interlocked wings forming the letter L. The boardinghouse and the wood workshop are two independent
buildings due to substantial layout differences.
From the construction point of view, it is
a simple, two-storey high brick construction and its
roof is covered with Eternit. The external façade
plaster is slightly damped, the windows are simple
wooden windows, the doors are simple wooden doors
and the building has sheet-metal constructions such as
water-troughs and downpipes. The entrance door is
a wooden, double-wing door equipped with a terrace
blind. The building also holds a device for the release
of wood-shavings from the building.
The building is connected to all available utility
networks.
Diesel-aggregate
The north-western side of the site no. 88/1
constituting the principal part of the assessed site
contains a simple one-storey brick rectangular building
built in 1970 which holds a spare power source –a
power aggregate. The building is not registered in the
List of Titles as an individual construction.
The external walls are of the width of 38 cm;
the roof is flat and equipped with strips of the S-type,
the entrance door is a simple sheet-metal door.
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Warehouse of raw materials and finished
products
The eldest building of the assessed site is
situated under the old production building behind
a small courtyard and according to the submitted
confirmation of the age of buildings it was built already
in 1840. This building currently serves for storage of
semi-finished and finished products.
It is a brick hall-type three-storey building with
iron-concrete ceilings, whereas the underground floor
– basement is set in the terrain only by its southern
half, since the northern part (similarly to other
buildings) is at the level of the modified terrain. The
roof load-bearing construction above the last storey
was originally made of wood with an inclination of
approximately 10 %. During the reconstruction of the
middle roof cladding, its structural layout was modified
and thus considerably heightened the originally flat
saddle roof. The above mentioned works were
performed in 1990. The roof covering is made of zinccoated
sheet-metal
plates,
the
windows
are
predominantly simple steel windows, the doors are
panel and plain doors. The flooring is partially made of
concrete, partially of parquet wood and partially of
beech parquetry. The external walls in the lower part
are of the width of 70 cm. The lower construction does
not show any obvious full-area dampness despite the
fact that the building was built in the 19th century.
Heating of the building is provided centrally from the
boiler-house.
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Production building, Section A – Reg. No.
167
Production building, Section B – Reg. No.
167
In 1969, in addition to other buildings, two new
blocks with saddle roofs for the production of cigars
were also built. Both parts of the production building
have the same registration number 167.
The structural layout of these buildings
corresponds with the construction tendencies of the
1960s. The load-bearing structure consists of an ironconcrete frame set on a coherent monolithic ironconcrete foundation plate. There are five storeys
above its level, whereas the lowest level in Section B
of this complex clearly forms a basement. The beam
filling consists of inserted porous concrete panels of
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the width of 38 cm. Both production buildings may use
one freight elevator located in Section B.
The roofs of both buildings were originally flat onecladding roofs insulated with gas-silicate panels.
However, climatic conditions of the location required
a change in the structural layout of the roof cladding,
as well as of these buildings and therefore the original
one-cladding roofs were replaced with wooden saddle
roofs with coherent sheets and zinc-coated sheetmetal covering. Section B is only partially equipped
with cellars.
The building is heated from the central boilerhouse by means of medium-pressure steam. The
windows of the building are new plastic windows, the
doors are plain, the flooring is mainly made of PVC,
the tiles in sanitary facilities are ceramic, the plasters
are whitewashed.
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The site also contains several independent buildings
which served for the assurance of production, in
particular:
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Oil management
Waste water treatment plant
Tool-shed no. 1
Tool-shed no. 2
Warehouse of fuels and lubricants
Gatehouse
Fences
o
barrier fences
o
mesh fences
External modifications
o
water tank
o
new and original water feeder line
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o
o
o
o
o
o
sewerage system
rainwater disposal system
caliduct
steam pipeline
hardened surfaces – cobble-stones
hardened surfaces - concrete
Lands
1. Lands registered in the List of Titles No. 320 Register C
This concerns the lands under the buildings and
the related lands with utility networks and inner-site
roads. The lands are situated in the centre of the
municipality of Smolník, the intensity of use is
average, they comprise standard constructions with
regular technical equipment. It concerns a typical
commercial location, the equipment of the lands with
utility networks is at a very good level, the buildings
are connected to all available utility networks.
Plot No.
Type of land Formula
888/3
Built-in area
and courtyard
944/1
garden
944/2
garden
117
Total
Share
acreage
Acreage
in m2
117.00
1/1
117.00
1143 1,143.00
1/1
1,143.00
1/1
512.00
512
Total
acreage
512.00
1,772.00
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2. Lands registered in the List of Titles No. 320 –
Register E
This concerns the lands under the buildings and
the related lands with utility networks and inner-site
roads. The lands are situated in the centre of the
municipality of Smolník, the intensity of use is
average, they comprise standard constructions with
regular technical equipment. It concerns a typical
commercial location, the equipment of the lands with
utility networks is at a very good level, the buildings
are connected to all available utility networks.
3. Lands – permanent grasslands – Register E
This concerns the lands around the water tank,
situated outside the built-in territory of the
municipality, marked as permanent grasslands. This
concerns lands without use, without utility networks,
with a relatively good access from the municipality.
Generally, these lands are not usable and they are
only relevant for those who own the water tank.
Plot No.
Type of
Formula
land
Total
Share
acreage
Acreage in
m2
2414
Permanent
grasslands
10272
10,272.00
1/1
10,272.00
2428
Permanent
grasslands
36635
36,635,00
1/1
36,635.00
2432
Permanent
grasslands
13681
13,681.00
1/1
13,681.00
2436/2
Permanent
grasslands
728
728.00
1/1
728.00
Total
acreage
61, 316.00
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