Dolné Lefantovce

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Dolné Lefantovce
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Dolné Lefantovce (Slovakia)
Dolné Lefantovce
Dolné Lefantovce
Basic data
State : Slovakia
Kraj : Nitriansky kraj
Okres : Nitra
Region : Nitra
Area : 4.613 km²
Residents : 703 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 152 inhabitants per km²
Height : 154  m nm
Postal code : 951 45 (Post Office Horné Lefantovce )
Telephone code : 0 37
Geographic location : 48 ° 25 '  N , 18 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 25 '25 "  N , 18 ° 7' 20"  E
License plate : NO
Kód obce : 582425
structure
Community type : local community
Administration (as of November 2018)
Mayor : Miloslav Krajčík
Address: Obecný úrad Dolné Lefantovce
Nitrianska 36
951 61 Horné Lefantovce
Website: www.dolnelefantovce.sk
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Dolné Lefantovce (German Unterelefant , Hungarian Alsóelefánt ) is a Slovak municipality in Okres Nitra and Nitriansky kraj with 703 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

geography

Main street of Dolné Lefantovce

The village is located on the western slope of the Tribeč Mountains in the middle Nitra Valley . The center of the village is at an altitude of 154  m nm and is 19 kilometers from Nitra .

Neighboring municipalities are Horné Lefantovce in the north and east, Bádice in the south, Výčapy-Opatovce in the south-west, Koniarovce in the west and Hrušovany in the north-west.

history

The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1113 as an elephant and as a separate place in 1332 as an Elephanth Inferior and was owned by the Elefánt family , later the Bartakovich , Forgách , Pongrácy and others, as well as part of the Pauline monastery in Horné Lefantovce. In 1421 the village received market rights. In 1828 there were 57 houses and 399 inhabitants who were employed as farmers.

Until 1918, the place in Neutra County belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary and then came to Czechoslovakia or now Slovakia.

From 1976 to 2002 Dolné Lefantovce was together with Horné Lefantovce part of the unified municipality Lefantovce.

population

According to the 2011 census, Dolné Lefantovce had 528 inhabitants, including 518 Slovaks and one Czech . Nine residents did not provide any information on ethnicity .

479 residents committed themselves to the Roman Catholic Church, six residents to the Evangelical Church AB and one resident each to the Evangelical Methodist Church and one to the Jewish community. 24 residents had no denomination and the denomination of 17 residents was not determined.

Buildings

  • Roman Catholic Church of the Birth of the Virgin Mary from 1380, since then rebuilt several times and added the tower in 1857

Individual evidence

  1. Results of the 2011 census (Slovak) ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / census2011.statistics.sk

Web links

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