1811 A royal charter, and the right to hold fairsKráľovská listina a právo jarmoku

In 1811 a royal charter raised Detva from a village to a market town — a mestečko — with the right to hold annual fairs and markets of its own. That mattered more than it sounds. A market meant the people of the lazy could sell cheese, wool, timber and cattle at home instead of carrying them down to Zvolen, and it meant traders came to them. The coat of arms, three spruces on a green field, is usually dated to the same moment, and it says exactly what the place lived on. It was still a town of serfs — that would not end until 1848 — but it was now a town with a market day.V roku 1811 povýšila kráľovská listina Detvu z dediny na mestečko s právom výročných jarmokov a trhov. Znamenalo to viac, než sa zdá. Trh znamenal, že ľudia z lazov mohli syr, vlnu, drevo a dobytok predať doma a nemuseli s tým chodiť do Zvolena, a že obchodníci prišli za nimi. Do tých istých rokov sa kladie aj erb mesta, tri smreky na zelenom poli, a ten hovorí presne to, z čoho sa tu žilo. Stále to bolo mestečko poddaných, to sa skončilo až v roku 1848 — ale už malo svoj trhový deň.