Baka (Slovakia)

Baka (Hungarian Baka ) is a municipality in the southwest of Slovakia with 1095 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). It belongs to the Okres Dunajská Streda , part of the Trnavský kraj .

geography

The municipality is located in the southern part of the Great Schüttinsel , part of the Slovak Danube lowlands , near the border with Hungary . The municipality is flat, around the main town used for agriculture; Baka is separated from the alluvial forests on the old Danube river bed by the feed channel of the Gabčíkovo hydropower plant . The forest, which is largely protected by the Dunajské Luhy Protected Landscape Area , has been home to the protected site of the sea eagle since 1953 . The center of the village lies at an altitude of 118 m nm and is 16 kilometers from Dunajská Streda and 48 kilometers from the capital Bratislava .

Neighboring municipalities are Jurová in the north, Gabčíkovo in the east, Lipót (H) in the south, Bodíky in the southwest and Trstená na Ostrove in the west.

history

The place was first mentioned in writing in 1268 as Baka as a settlement of royal courtiers of the Bratislava Castle . In 1445 the entire village was divided into two villages called Alsóbaka and Felsőbaka (literally Unterbaka and Oberbaka), which only reunited in the 19th century. The villages were owned by small nobility such as Bessenyei , Csorba , Báhonyi , Földés , Makolányi , Bartal , Kulcsár and others. In 1828 there were 77 houses and 555 inhabitants in Alsóbaka, 56 houses and 399 inhabitants in Felsőbaka. The main sources of income were agriculture and basket-making, plus there were numerous water mills on the Danube, e.g. B. 28 in 1881.

Until 1919, the place in Pressburg County belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary and then came to Czechoslovakia or now Slovakia. 1938-45 he was again in Hungary due to the First Vienna Arbitration .

population

According to the 2011 census, 1114 inhabitants lived in Baka, of whom 950 were Magyars, 148 Slovaks and one each was German, Moravian, Russian and Czech; one resident indicated a different ethnic group. Eleven residents made no statement. 1,032 residents committed themselves to the Roman Catholic Church, six residents to the Reformed Church, five residents each to the Evangelical Church AB and the Greek Catholic Church, two residents to the Congregational Church and one resident to the Evangelical Methodist Church; two residents professed a different denomination. 24 residents had no denomination and 37 residents had no denomination.

Buildings

Roman Catholic Church of All Saints in late Baroque style from 1770 after the old medieval church was destroyed by numerous floods

Individual evidence

↑ 2011 census by ethnicity (Slovak) ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
↑ 2011 census by denomination (Slovak) ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

Entry on e-obce.sk (Slovak)

[1] 2011 census by ethnicity (Slovak) ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

[2] 2011 census by denomination (Slovak) ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )