Gemer railway couplings

After the Vienna arbitration on November 2nd, 1938, a large part of the territory of southern Slovakia fell to Hungary. After the capture of the territory by the Hungarian army, difficulties arose in the field of transport in the Gemer-Malohont region, which lost important railway junctions Jesenské, Rimavská Sobota, Tornaľa, Rožňava. This reduced rail traffic in the area. After the declaration of the Slovak State, the design of new roads that would replace the resulting gaps in traffic began.

The new railway line was supposed to connect Tisovec with Slavošovce. Construction of the so-called The Gemerské spojky (Gemer railway couplings ) lasted until the announcement of the Slovak national uprising in August 1944. After the war, the completion was still considered, but since the Czechoslovak Republic was restored within its original borders, the construction was definitively completed in 1949. Currently, elements of this building have been preserved in the country, as well as finished objects that can be visited as a tourist or a cyclist.

They are the Koprášský (Mníšanský) viaduct, the Koprášsky tunnel, the Tunnel under Dielik and the most famous Slavošovský tunnel (Tunel under Homôlka hill), which is open to the public and an official cycle route passes through it. With its length of 2401 m, the tunnel connects two Slovak regions, it is the longest bicycle tunnel in Europe and the third longest in the world.