Horná Ves (Prievidza)

Horná Ves (until 1927 Slovak "Hornejsa"; Hungarian Ófelfalu - until 1907 Felfalu ) is a municipality in the western center of Slovakia with 1,440 inhabitants (December 31, 2019) that the prievidza district of, a part kraj Trenčiansky heard .

geography

The village is located in the southern part of the Hornonitrianska kotlina valley near the meeting point of the Tribeč and Vtáčnik mountains . It is traversed by the brook Osliansky potok in the catchment area of the Nitra . The center of the village is at an altitude of 328 m nm and is ten kilometers from Partizánske and 27 kilometers from Prievidza .

Neighboring municipalities are Oslany in the north, very briefly Čereňany in the northeast, Kľak , Ostrý Grúň and Píla in the east, Veľké Pole in the southeast, Radobica in the south, Veľké Uherce in the west and Pažiť in the northwest.

history

The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1239 as Superior Hozlem and was created at a toll station on an old trade route. Other historical names are Félfalu (1329), Felfolu (1520) and Hornyawes (16th century). If the village was previously part of the estate of the Sivý Kameň castle , it belonged to the estate of the Hrušov castle at the end of the 14th and the entire 15th century and thus also to the Ilsway (1408) and Majthény families .

The village came into the possession of the Hunyady family through leasing in the 16th century , who had a small fortress built on the edge of the village as early as the 15th century, which became a fortified country castle in the 16th century. In 1715, besides a mill, craftsmen such as blacksmiths, locksmiths and wheelwright are mentioned, later also linen weavers (eleven in 1736) and sieve makers. In 1787 the first parish was created by outsourcing it from the parish of Oslany , immediately with the construction of the new church.

Even after the abolition of serfdom in 1848, the Majthény family kept a large estate in and around the place, which was large in 1948 under the cadastral hold . In the late 19th century, the furniture company Thonet used the large forests as a source of raw materials for its factory in neighboring Veľké Uherce .

Until 1918, the place in Bars County belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary and then came to Czechoslovakia or now Slovakia. In 1923 the large estate was expropriated by the Czechoslovak state and in 1941 partially parceled out.

population

According to the 2011 census, Horná Ves had 1,454 inhabitants, 1,385 of whom were Slovaks, eight Roma, six Czechs and one German, one Croat and one Ukrainian; one resident indicated a different ethnic group. 51 residents gave no information in this regard. 1,108 residents committed themselves to the Roman Catholic Church, 80 residents to the Evangelical Church AB, 12 residents to the Congregational Church, four residents to the Evangelical Methodist Church, two residents each to the Greek Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church and one resident each to the Witnesses Jehovah, to the Apostolic Church as well as to the Reformed Church; eight residents professed a different denomination. 126 residents had no denomination and the denomination of 109 residents was not determined.

Buildings

Roman Catholic St. Paul's Church from 1837
Baroque style chapel from 1780

traffic

Horná Ves is on the 2nd order street 512 (Oslany - Veľké Pole - Žarnovica ) with a connection to the 1st order street 64 near Oslany.

The nearest train station is in Veľké Uherce on the Nové Zámky – Prievidza railway line with several daily train connections (as of the 2014/2015 timetable).

Individual evidence

↑ 2011 census by ethnicity (Slovak) ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
↑ 2011 census by denomination (Slovak) ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

Commons : Horná Ves (Prievidza) - collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry on e-obce.sk (Slovak)

[1] 2011 census by ethnicity (Slovak) ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

[2] 2011 census by denomination (Slovak) ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )