Banska Kremnica, Slovakia/banska110
Previous | Home | NextAt the beginning of Andreja Sládkovica, is Belházy, the building where the chemical and mineralogical laboratories were located, starting 1770 in the Schemnitz Mining Academy. Famous chemists who were educated here include Josef Müller von Reichenstein, who discovered tellurium in Romania, and A. M. Del Río, who discovered vanadium in Mexico. Belházy was built in 1616, and was owned in 1756 by János Belházy, the mayor of Schemnitz. The enclosures about the building were built in 1808.
