Trstená (Hungarian: Trsztena or Árvanádasd; Polish: Trzciana; German: Bingenstadt) is a town in Tvrdošín District, Žilina Region, Northern Slovakia.

Trstená is surrounded by fields, hills, dense forests and the Tatra Mountains to the East.

[4] In 1371, King Louis I of Hungary granted Duke Vladislaus II of Opole, Schwankomir (Vladislaus' notary and brother in law), Jan Hertel, a relative of Schwankomir from Einseidel in Silesia (and his sons, Jakub and Martin) and Vladislaus' brothers (Janko, Grimok, Junislav and Wismer) to establish a new town in the forest (from Zabiedov brook (Zadowa) to the Bukovina valley), near Tvrdošín.

He was given the right to build mills anywhere near the Oravica brook, to mine and sell rock and to hunt and fish throughout the locale.

Twenty years after the allocation of land for Trstená, taxes to the rulers of the Hungarian Empire at Orava Castle fell due.

For example, in 1480, at the Turiec convent of Premonstratensians in Kláštor pod Znievom, the Trstená mayor, Adalbert Fojt, was favoured.

Although departure from the Catholic church was less evident in Hungary than in Germany, the Hertel family were German and this may have influenced religion in Trstená.

Trstená was located in the Kingdom of Hungary of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy until the "Martin Declaration" of 1918.

[8] The wasteland unmarked Jewish cemetery is located on a steep wooded hillside above the main road to Tvrdošín, just outside Trstená township.

Headstones and tombstones of marble and sandstone are present in the dozens, some in Hebrew and some in Roman script.

[11] The Brezovica Ski Centre in Orava Village in the West Tatras is 7 km (4 mi) from Trstená.

Coffins, clothing and textiles found in the crypts represent a cultural record of regional rustic funereal art of the 1700s and 1800s.

St Martin's church has a more recent turreted spire, modelled on a Czech design, after the original was dislodged towards the end of World War II by an off course Russian Katuysha rocket.