Borinka

Borinka (until 1948 Slovak "Pajštún", until 1927 also "Kvetov"; German Ballenstein , also Pallenstein or Paulenstein , Hungarian Pozsonyborostyánkő - until 1895 Borostyánkő ) is a municipality in western Slovakia with 821 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

geography

Stupavský potok

The place, which was formerly called Stupavský Podzámok in Slovak , is located in the Little Carpathians in the Záhorie region , in a valley of the Stupavský potok wedged between two mountain ranges , around 5 km east of Stupava and around 20 km from the capital Bratislava . Some Bratislava have here or around their dacha (slow. Chata ).

In addition to the main town, the municipality also includes Vačková .

Neighboring municipalities are Stupava in the west and north, Lozorno in the north-east, Svätý Jur in the east, Bratislava (district Záhorská Bystrica ) in the south and Marianka in the south-west.

history

Ballenstein Castle above Borinka

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1314 as Pelystan and developed from a settlement below the castle Ballenstein ( Pajštún in Slovak ) immediately north on a nearly 500 m high ridge . The village was the seat of the Ballenstein estate, which, however, moved to Stampfen (today Stupava) in the 17th century. The castle, which burned down in the 18th century, was razed by Napoleonic troops in 1810. In 1828 there were 98 houses and 698 inhabitants who were employed as manufacturers of brooms and wooden utensils, lime burners, charcoal burners and farmers. There was also a powder mill until 1918, a paper factory and a copper hammer mill.

Until 1918, the place in Pressburg County belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary , after which it came to Czechoslovakia or now Slovakia.

Copper hammer mill

Part of the factory area, in the background the Archangel Michael Chapel

In the village of Medené Hámre , at the outflow of the Stupavský potok from a valley called Prepadlé (German Maygraben ), Johann Mayer, Pressburg mayor and "copper hammer mill", had a copper hammer mill and forges built for the production of copper dishes and goods. According to the work "Commentarium de rebus Ungaricis Libri XIII" by Gabriel Kolinovič, the work began work in 1719. The tradition continued under Johann Mayer's heirs and the work was known as "Kupferhammerschmiedt Meister aus Maygraben", whose last written mention was in 1819.

The Bratislava Kaupfmann Theodor Weisz acquired the copper hammer mill in 1858, which from then on was known as “Paulensteiner Kupferhammer und Walzwerke Theodor Weisz u. Erben ”, after the expansion in the 1880s to include the leased copper hammer mill at Červený Kameň Castle as“ Paulensteiner and Biebersburger Kupferhammer u. Walzwerke Theodor Weisz, owner Ladislaus v. Weisz ”. Theodor Weisz's son Ladislaus received the title of nobility "from Borostyánkői". The prosperous factory ceased its work shortly after the beginning of the Great Depression around 1930 and most of the buildings were razed to the ground. The buildings that still exist include the manor house, the apartments converted into a horse stable and the baroque Archangel Michael Chapel.

Place name

The current name Borinka means something like " pine village ", but is derived from the Hungarian word Borostyánkő , there with the meaning " amber ".

population

According to the 2011 census, Borinka had 628 inhabitants, 591 of whom were Slovaks , six Magyars , five Czechs , four Russians and one Jew , one from Rome and one from Serbs . Two residents indicated a different ethnic group and 17 residents gave no information about the ethnic group .

374 residents committed themselves to the Roman Catholic Church, 11 residents to the Evangelical Church AB, five residents to the Greek Catholic Church, four residents each to the Brethren and the Orthodox Church, two residents each for the Baha'i and the Czechoslovak Hussite Church and one resident each to the Mormons, the Old Catholic Church and the Pentecostal movement; four residents professed a different denomination. 171 residents had no denomination and 48 residents had no denomination.

Attractions

Herz-Jesu-Kirche in the town center

Ruins of Ballenstein Castle north of the village
Roman Catholic Sacred Heart Church from 1864
Trinity Chapel from 1750
Archangel Michael Chapel in Medené Hámre
Remains of the castle Dračí hrádok ( Dragon Castle , destroyed) in the 15th century

Sons and daughters of the church

Michal Bubnič , Bishop of Rožňava

Individual evidence

Web links

Commons : Borinka - collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry on e-obce.sk (Slovak)

[1] Slovenské slovníky: názvy obcí Slovenskej republiky (Majtán 1998)

[2] Results of the 2011 census (Slovak)