Lomnička (; ; ) is a village and municipality in Stará Ľubovňa District in the Prešov Region of northern Slovakia. Till 1945 the name was KleinLomnitz for 'Small'Lomnitz.

History In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1294. The population was mostly German speaking till August 1944.Hans Faix: 50 Jahre Erinnerung an die Flucht und Vertreibung aus Kleinlomnitz, Zips 1995, S.4 Before the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918, Lomnička was part of Szepes County within the Kingdom of Hungary. From 1939 to 1945, it was part of the Slovak Republic. On 25 January 1945, the Red Army dislodged the Wehrmacht from Lomnička and it was once again part of Czechoslovakia.

Geography

Population

It has a population of  people (31 December ).

Ethnicity

The vast majority of the municipality's population consists of the local Roma community. In 2019, they constituted an estimated 100% of the local population.Ábel Ravasz, Ľuboš Kovács and Filip Markovič, Atlas rómskych komunít 2019. Bratislava: Veda, 2020, , database appendix available at:https://www.institutmatejabela.sk/ark2019

Religion

Sons and daughters of the town Michael Roth (born 1936), German engineer

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