SWOT Report I - Central Europe

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Situation analysis According to the regional division of the European Union (NUTS) today the town is situated in the North Hungary Region (HU31), it is the seat of Nógrád County (HU313) and the centre of the Salgótarján Micro-region, at the same time it is one of the 23 county rank towns in Hungary. The mining and the industry creating the town was decisive for almost 130 years and presented capabilities with very severe tasks and utmost difficult problems later with the system change aftermath changing the structure of industry. In the region mining brown coal started in 1848. By the end of the 19th century, mining in the vicinity of Salgótarján was in the hands of 3 major companies. The development and formation of the present view of the town were grossly influenced by several other industries, such as the iron and later the glass production. Up to the start of the coal mining Salgótarján used to be a relatively insignificant settlement which was awarded town rank in 1922 and gradually assimilated the nearby villages having already been administratively attached (Somoskő, Somoskőújfalu, Zagyvaróna, Zagyvapálfalva, Rónafalu e.g.), while new mining colonies came into being (Salgóbánya, Somlyóbánya, e.g.). So ’Great’ Salgótarján having emerged this way originally consisted of a not really characteristically urban centre and a set of village-like settlements surrounding it. (As the only administrative new change, Somoskőújfalu separated from Salgótarján on 1st October 2006 as a result of a local ballot and became an independent settlement again.) In 1950 Salgótarján became a county rank town and the seat of Nógrád County was relocated here as well. During the 50’s due to the state development projects it evolved a typical ’socialist town’ and grew to be the industrial, administrative, commercial and cultural centre of the county. After the great mining achievements of the 50’s production gradually diminished as the output of the deep cultivation mines decreased and production got more expensive. In 1993 the coal-mining company ceased to be and coal mining was given up similarly to many mining regions of the country. The powerful 100 years of mining and industry called forth not only a massive industrial structure and a town functioning as an economic and administrative centre next to it, but an urban society as well, living in a sizable, well-constructed infrastructure. In this society the well-trained trade intellectuals and the traditionally meant skilled worker layer, and despite the problems and crises of the past decades it possesses significant cultural values and traditions. As the consequence of the structural change in the industry after the decay of the mining the industry got into serious trouble, more and more important plants went bankrupt consequently the number of industrial workplaces diminished significantly, which caused a massive unemployment of about 10% by the turn of the century. The town lost not only the SWOT Salgótarján 44
socialist industrial structure but became the loser of the renewing industrial structural change, too, as the foreign owned industrial companies fitting into the new structure did not appear here. Because of the lack of workplaces and the growing unemployment, many moved to other settlements and the population of Salgótarján started to decrease. The whole region, especially the earlier heavy industrial centres suffered a severe kickback. It is clearly shown by the per capita GDP value being under the national average. The fate of the town bears the characteristics of the Central European industrial towns but we can stress individual features in the course of industrialisation that had momentous effect on the structure, functions and the character of the environment of the town. Its unique features however gives not only the problems, it can provide facilities for the solution and may contain the ways of change. Swot analysis SWOT Salgótarján STRENGTH WEAKNESSES Suitability for showing geological and geomorphologic specialities for scientific and educational purpose As special rarity, suitability for showing pseudo-caves caused by collapses having followed the undermining Accessibility of these natural or anthropogenic geosites are mostly not too difficult A clear intention of the local selfgovernment to raise from the dead the mining heritage Suitability for showing the technical heritage like miners’ tools etc. on-thespot Some former miner colonies as architectural monuments survived the change Utilization of post-mining natural potentials The region is mainly not suitable for adopting well-known utilization types of other mining regions Lack of capital, as utilization of post-mining natural potentials needs at first investment No detailed calculation yet of such projects Privatization of services weakens the intervention of the local authorities Local people do not grasp that utilization of post-mining potentials is a break-out point from the crisis Utilization of post-mining cultural potentials The self-governments as owners of the former mining infrastructure have very small financial funds to renew or at least to maintenance the mining heritage Lack of working out of ideas how to utilize the remained mining infrastructure 45
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