Cankova

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Cankova
Coat of arms of Cankova Map of Slovenia, position of Cankova highlighted
Basic data
Country SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia
Historic region Übermurgebiet / Prekmurje
Statistical region Pomurska (Mur region)
Coordinates 46 ° 43 '  N , 16 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 43 '15 "  N , 16 ° 1' 21"  E
height 215  m. i. J.
surface 30.6  km²
Residents 2,007 (2008)
Population density 66 inhabitants per km²
Post Code 9261
License Plate MS

Cankova ( German  Kaltenbrunn , Hungarian Vashidegkút ) is a municipality and a town in Slovenia and is located in the historic Prekmurje region , right on the Austrian border.

geography

The municipality occupies the southwestern part of the hill country from Goričko to the Kutschenitza brook (Slov. Kučnica potok), which marks the border with Styria , extends into the Ledava valley with the Ledavsko jezero reservoir in the east and shares in the extensive through Mur and Ledava formed the plain of Ravensko . The entire municipality belongs to the three-country park Raab-Goričko-Örseg .

The municipality marker extends over an area of ​​30.6 km² and borders on the neighboring municipalities of Rogašovci in the north, Puconci in the east and Tišina in the south. In the west, the municipality touches the district of Southeast Styria and is connected to it via the three border crossings Cankova - Zelting , Korovci - Goritz and Gerlinci - Pölten .

The municipality has around 2070 inhabitants in 598 households (2002) and is made up of eight localities. The official Hungarian exonyms from 1890 are given in brackets after today's place names .

  • Cankova (Hungarian Vashidegkút, German Kaltenbrunn)
  • Domajinci (Dombalja)
  • Gerlinci (Hungarian Görhegy, German Jörgelsdorf)
  • Gornji Črnci (Királyszék)

Cankova place

Josefskirche and Pavel monument on the main square
The interior of the Josefskirche

Cankova (German: Kaltenbrunn, Hungarian: Vashidegkút) has 481 inhabitants (2002) and is the center of the municipality of the same name. The place spreads out on a terrace (216 m) between the two rivers Kutschenitza and Ledava on the edge of the Ravensko plain. Cankova is approx. 15 km northwest of Murska Sobota and approx. 5 km northeast of Bad Radkersburg. The village can be easily reached from the main road 440 Gederovci - Kuzma .

The Catholic St. Joseph's Church is located in the town's central main square. It was built in 1737 and made a parish church in 1754. The parish is now part of the Murska Sobota diocese . In the same place is the house where the well-known Slovenian-Hungarian scientist Avgust Pavel / Ágoston Pável was born ; here is also his monument.

In spring, wild daffodils (Narcissus stellaris) bloom on the meadows between the Kutschenitzabach and the road to the neighboring town of Korovci , and irises (Iris sibirica) can also be found here and there. The regulation of the Kutschenitza, land consolidation, soil drainage and the intensive agricultural use have contributed to the fact that this magnificent natural event has significantly decreased in recent decades. The daffodil also blooms in the speaking coat of arms of the municipality.

history

Due to the wrong interpretation of a deed of donation from the Hungarian King András II from 1212, the founding and ownership of Cankova was erroneously attributed to the Templar Order . However, the deed relates to real estate in the Prešov area in Slovakia . The village of Cankova, on the other hand, did not emerge until the middle of the 14th century on a previously deserted border strip, part of the Grad / Oberlimbach rule , which was then owned by the Hungarian magnate family Széchy .

The place Cankova is mentioned for the first time in 1366: "villa seu possessio Kaltenprun siue Hydegkuth iuxta fluuium Olsinch". The German place name Kaltenbrunn and the Hungarian name Hidegkút have the same meaning, although the Olsinch water is now called Kutschenitza. The place name "Hydegkwth" is passed down from a document from 1499.

According to the visitation protocol of the Diocese of Győr / Raab, which was recorded in 1698, the village "Hidegkut" belonged to the parish "Sancti Georgij sive Szent Georgy", today's St. Georgen / Sv. Jurij in the Rogašovci municipality and had a majority Protestant population.

In 1890 the village is officially called Vashidegkút and had 441 inhabitants, of which 397 declared themselves to be Slovenes, 19 as Germans, 18 as Hungarians and 7 stated another nationality. The place belonged to the Hungarian Muraszómbat district, today Murska Sobota , and was in Vas / Eisenburg county .

The Trianon Treaty gave the village to the Kingdom of SHS . For the place now officially named Cankova, the following data were determined in the census on January 31, 1921: 470 Slovenes, 10 Germans, 2 Hungarians and 3 other ethnic groups, of these 485 residents 471 declared themselves Catholic, 12 Protestant and 2 Jewish Believe.

In the census in 1931 460 inhabitants were determined, in 1961 there were 458 and the following figures are known for 1971: 475 inhabitants, 100 houses, 124 households and 212 villagers who lived exclusively on income from agriculture.

Personalities of the place

literature

  • Ivan Zelko : Historična Topografija Slovenije I . Prekmurje do leta 1500. Murska Sobota, 1982.
  • Matija Slavič: Naše Prekmurje . Murska Sobota, 1999.
  • Miha Kosi: Templarji na Slovenskem . Ljubljana 1995.
  • Atlas: Slovenije , Ljubljana, 1985.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Lumtzer, Viktor / Melich, Johann; German place names and loan words from the Hungarian vocabulary. Sources and research on the history, literature and language of Austria and its crown lands; Publishing house of the Wagner University Bookstore Innsbruck, 1900.