Citizen

Citizen

Urban structure, population and location

City of Trnava is the seat of the Trnava district, Trnava region and from the 1st December 2001 also the seat of the Trnava Upper Territorial Unit.
The total area of the city is 71,5 km2.

Trnava City is an administrative, economic, cultural and science-research centre of the district and Trnava Self-governing Region.
In the period of years 1970-1991 Trnava recorded dynamic increase in the number of the inhabitants. Average annual increment achieved 1164 inhabitants while in the years of 1970-1980 it was 1529 inhabitants and in 1981-1991 circa 799. But positive trend coming from beneficial age composition of the population changed in the last decade when average annual increment of the population fell to circa 281 people in the first half and even to 94 people in the second half.
The number of inhabitants in Trnava City on 08/01/2007 was 67 454. Residential density was 943 inhabitants on km2.

We can state that the natural population increase will be minimal so demographic development of the city should be secured by increased migration. Today and especially in the near future economic and social reasons of the migration will become dominant. But we can anticipate that the decrease of living standard, employment loss, increase in apartment costs and substantial stagnation of the apartment building will be reasons for restriction of amount of migration of the rural population to cities within the frame of the same district and as well out of the district region. These should essentially slow down or stop the decreasing tendency in the population trend.

From the aspect of land type, the highest part is formed by agricultural land which represents 76,14 %, from which cultivatable land constitutes 73,36% from total Trnava land area.

From the point of view of the city development, the largest changes to the area happened in the seventieth years, when Hrnčiarovce (November 28, 1971), Modranka (January 1,1972) and Biely Kostol (January 1, 1974) were associated to Trnava while the city reached an area of 8 986 ha and with a built-up area of 1 462 ha. Trnava city consisted of 8 urban districts (1. Staré Mesto, 2. Kopánka, 3. Hlboká, 4. Tulipán, 5. Nové Mesto, 6. Modranka, 7. Hrnčiarovce, 8. Biely Kostol). On 1 January 1993 Biely Kostol was split from Trnava and on 1 January 1994 Hrnčiarovce nad Parnou also split. Since 1 July 2002 the city has consisted of 6 urban districts (Trnava Centre, Trnava West, Trnava North, Trnava East, Trnava South, Modranka).

Trnava city is situated on the fringe of the West Slovak lowland with distance of 50 km far from Bratislava, the capital of the Slovak republic.

The city is crossed by a highway and the main railway corridor connecting the west and east of the Slovak republic. The distance to a significant European city, Vienna, is 95 km.

The city of Trnava plays the important role of the secondary core of the so-called Central European Region. The Central European Region is a part of the European production triangle Paris – Berlin – Vienna that creates the base of the European economy with:

  • the highest energetic power
  • the highest production of industry
  • the highest production of agriculture (per 1 ha of land)
  • the highest consumption per capita in Europe
  • the best quality of social and technical infrastructure
  • the most modern technologies in the world and Europe
  • high developed transport

From the point of view of finishing nowadays and creation of the future land structure the Central European Region is a large bi-polar region with remarkable radial-circular system of city settlements of the first and second category. The main poles of the Central European region are finally created by centres such as Vienna and Bratislava (primary cores), the secondary core of the first and second category are located in the main circular system, that is connected by radials with the main poles.

Trnava is a core of the first category where also belong St. Pölten, Znojmo, Sopron, Wiener Neustadt, Eisenstadt. The cores of the second category are Břeclav, Krems, Hollabrun, Mosonmagyaróvár, Dunajská Streda and Galanta.

Trnava region and its core area, Trnava city, is situated on one of the main urbanisation axis of Slovakia: north – south, that is created by Váh valley a belt settlement from Žilina in direction to Bratislava. This main urbanisation axis is crossed by secondary axis which is one of the important joining points of Slovakia and Moravia (Czech Republic). The city of Trnava and its interesting territory is the meeting point of these urbanisation axes.