Bočiar
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| State : | Slovakia | ||
| Kraj : | Košický kraj | ||
| Okres : | Košice-okolie | ||
| Region : | Košice | ||
| Area : | 0.47 km² | ||
| Residents : | 258 (Dec. 31, 2019) | ||
| Population density : | 549 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Height : | 205 m nm | ||
| Postal code : | 044 57 (Post Haniska pri Košiciach ) | ||
| Telephone code : | 0 55 | ||
| Geographic location : | 48 ° 36 ' N , 21 ° 14' E | ||
| License plate : | KS | ||
| Kód obce : | 559831 | ||
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| Community type : | local community | ||
| Administration (as of November 2019) | |||
| Mayor : | Elena Szabóová | ||
| Address: | Obecný úrad Bočiar 23 044 58 Haniska |
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| Statistics information on statistics.sk | |||
Bočiar (until 1927 "Bočár" in Slovak, until 1948 "Bočar"; Hungarian Bocsárd ) is a small municipality in eastern Slovakia with 258 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). It is located in Okres Košice-okolie , a part of Košický kraj .
With 0.47 km² (about 50 soccer fields) Bočiar is the smallest municipality in Košický kraj and one of the smallest in Slovakia. The municipality is located in the Košická kotlina ( Košická kotlina ) on the Sokoliansky brook , which joins the Sartoš river on the Hungarian border and flows into the Hornád in Hidasnémeti . The community area has no fields, meadows or forests - it consists exclusively of the settlement plots.
Neighboring communities of Bočiar are Sokoľany in the north, Seňa in the east and south and the Košice district of Šaca in the west.
Bočiar was first mentioned in 1249 as a Boltsschar . In the 14th and 15th centuries the rulers of the village changed several times within different noble families. After the looting by Turkish troops in 1652, settlers of Slovak origin increasingly moved to Bočiar.
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Emmerich ( svätého Imricha / Szent Imre ) dates from 1773. After the First Vienna Arbitration Award, Bočiar also belonged to the Hungarian Abaúj County from 1938 to 1945 .
The construction of the East Slovak Steelworks (now US Steel Košice ) in the mid-1960s, three kilometers northwest of the village, was decisive for the further development . From 1961 to 1990 Bočiar was together with today's municipality Sokoľany a part of the meanwhile dissolved municipality Hutníky .
According to the results of the 2001 census, Bočiar had 223 inhabitants, 96.9% of whom were Slovaks. 82.5% of the residents professed their support for the Roman Catholic Church.
The US Steel Košice steelworks complex is by far the largest employer in the entire region, but it also brings burdens for the residents of Bočiar. The pollutants in the exhaust gases should be mentioned here, which lead to impairments in special weather conditions and north-westerly wind directions, as well as the noise from the blast furnaces and the noises when the coal and iron ore are unloaded in the rail unloading terminal in the southeast of the steelworks site (the coal is from the area around Ostrava delivered by rail; the iron ore comes from the Ukrainian Krywyj Rih on the broad-gauge Uzhhorod – Košice line ). An unloading terminal west of the village for aggregates and lining materials that are needed for steel production and lining converters and blast furnaces (including magnesite ) creates additional noise. Another burden for the residents are the hundreds of heavily loaded trucks that roll through the village around the clock.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bočiar on portal.gov.sk. Retrieved February 11, 2011 (Slovak).
- ↑ Statistical data on statistics.sk/mosmis ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Slovak)
