Blatná na Ostrove

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Blatná na Ostrove
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Blatná na Ostrove (Slovakia)
Blatná na Ostrove
Blatná na Ostrove
Basic data
State : Slovakia
Kraj : Trnavský kraj
Okres : Dunajská Streda
Region : Podunajsko
Area : 10.778 km²
Residents : 935 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 87 inhabitants per km²
Height : 123  m nm
Postal code : 930 32
Telephone code : 0 31
Geographic location : 48 ° 0 '  N , 17 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 0 '8 "  N , 17 ° 26' 20"  E
License plate : DS
Kód obce : 501492
structure
Community type : local community
Administration (as of November 2018)
Mayor : Terézia Földváryová
Address: Obecný úrad Blatná na Ostrove
č. 203
930 32 Blatná na Ostrove
Website: www.blatnanaostrove.sk
Statistics information on statistics.sk

Blatná na Ostrove (Hungarian Sárosfa - in older sources also Sárosfalva , German Sarischdorf ) is a municipality in southwest Slovakia with 935 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 western part of the Big Schüttinsel , part of the Slovak Danube lowlands . The center of the village is at an altitude of 123  m nm and is 15 kilometers from Dunajská Streda and 37 kilometers from the capital Bratislava .

Neighboring communities are Macov and Lehnice in the north, Holice in the east and south-east, Horný Bar in the south, Rohovce in the south-west and Trnávka in the west.

history

The place was first mentioned in writing in 1286 as Sarafia , in 1328 as Sáralja . The name indicates muddy ground (Hungarian sár and Slovak blato correspond to the German "mud"). In 1553 three portals are recorded in a tax register. The village belonged to various nobility before it became the property of the Kéméndy family in the 16th century and Földés and Bittó a century later . In 1828 there were 68 houses and 521 inhabitants,

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, 860 people lived in Blatná na Ostrove, 667 of them Magyars, 158 Slovaks, three Bulgarians and three Czechs, two Ukraine and one Pole; one resident indicated a different ethnic group. Eleven residents made no statement. 724 residents committed themselves to the Roman Catholic Church, 16 residents to the Reformed Church, 13 residents to the Evangelical Church AB, four residents to the Orthodox Church and one resident each to the Jehovah's Witnesses and to the Evangelical Methodist Church; four residents professed a different denomination. 54 residents had no denomination and the denomination of 43 residents was not determined.

Buildings

  • Roman Catholic Trinity Church in Baroque style from 1721, inside there is a wooden Gothic Madonna figure (date of origin around 1400)
  • two mansions of the Bittó dynasty in classicist style from the 19th century

Sons and daughters of the church

  • István Bittó (1822–1903), Prime Minister (1874/75) of the Kingdom of Hungary

Individual evidence

  1. http://exonyme.bplaced.net/Board/Thread-Blatn%C3%A1-na-Ostrove-S%C3%A1rosfa-deutsch-Sarischdorf ( Memento from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. 2011 census by ethnicity (Slovak) ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. 2011 census by denomination (Slovak) ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

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