Hauerland is the name for a region presently located in central Slovakia

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

 (Slovak Republic) once inhabited by a German minority population belonging to three islands of German pre-WWII population in Slovakia. The other two were situated in Pressburg (Bratislava

Bratislava

Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...

) and Zips (Spiš

Spiš

Spiš is a region in north-eastern Slovakia, with a very small area in south-eastern Poland. Spiš is an informal designation of the territory , but it is also the name of one the 21 official tourism regions of Slovakia...

). The center of this region was Kremnitz (Kremnica

Kremnica

Kremnica is a town in central Slovakia. It has some 5,700 inhabitants. The well-preserved medieval town built above important gold mines is the site of the oldest still-working mint in the world.-History:...

), a gold mining city with medieval history and importance for Hungarian kingdom. In the 19th century, coal sources were discovered in Krickerhau (Handlová) region. A number of villages, mostly spread out in the mountainous and hilly areas, were agricultural and developed a special kind of German subculture.