Kaplna

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Kaplna
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Kaplna (Slovakia)
Kaplna
Kaplna
Basic data
State : Slovakia
Kraj : Bratislavský kraj
Okres : Senec
Region : Bratislava
Area : 5.530 km²
Residents : 886 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 160 inhabitants per km²
Height : 152  m nm
Postal code : 900 84 (Post Office Báhoň )
Telephone code : 0 33
Geographic location : 48 ° 18 '  N , 17 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '35 "  N , 17 ° 27' 22"  E
License plate : SC
Kód obce : 555495
structure
Community type : local community
Administration (as of November 2018)
Mayor : Vladimír Vittek
Address: Obecný úrad Kaplna
39
90084 Kaplna
Website: www.kaplna.sk
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Kaplna (until 1996 "Kaplná" in Slovak; German chapels , Hungarian Erzsébetkápolna - until 1907 Kápolna ) is a municipality in Okres Senec within the Bratislavský kraj in Slovakia .

Elisabeth Church

geography

The place is located in the Danube lowlands by the Vištucký creek , 11 km northeast of the city of Senec and 15 km southwest of Trnava . It is located on the main road 61 and forms a unit with the neighboring communities of Báhoň and Igram .

history

The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1244 and grew around the existing Romanesque church of St. Elisabeth. The names for the community are derived from the Latin Capulna . Since the 16th century it belonged to the estate of Rotenstein Castle . In 1530 the place was destroyed by an Ottoman attack and settled by Croatian settlers since the middle of the 16th century.

Until 1918 the place was in Pressburg County in the Kingdom of Hungary , then it came to the newly formed Czechoslovakia . 1974–1990 the municipality with the neighboring village Igram was part of Báhoň .

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