Kecerovce
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Slovakia | ||
| Kraj : | Košický kraj | ||
| Okres : | Košice-okolie | ||
| Region : | Košice | ||
| Area : | 13.814 km² | ||
| Residents : | 3,642 (Dec. 31, 2019) | ||
| Population density : | 264 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Height : | 328 m nm | ||
| Postal code : | 044 47 | ||
| Telephone code : | 055 | ||
| Geographic location : | 48 ° 50 ' N , 21 ° 25' E | ||
| License plate : | KS | ||
| Kód obce : | 521523 | ||
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| Community type : | local community | ||
| Structure of the municipality: | 2 parts of the community | ||
| Administration (as of November 2018) | |||
| Mayor : | Miroslav Galas-Zaufal | ||
| Address: | Obecný úrad Kecerovce 92 04447 Kecerovce |
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| Statistics information on statistics.sk | |||
Kecerovce is a municipality in the Okres Košice-okolie within the Košický kraj with about 3000 inhabitants.
The place is located on the Oľšava river in the eastern part of the Košická kotlina (Kaschau basin), below the Slanské vrchy mountains in the east, on slightly hilly terrain. The center of the village is at an altitude of 328 m. Kecerovce is about 24 kilometers northeast of the city of Košice .
The community was created in 1975 by the merger of the previously independent places Kecerovské Pekľany (until 1927 "Kecerské Pekľany", Hungarian Kecerpeklén ) west of the river Oľšava and Kecerovské Kostoľany (until 1927 "Kecerské Kostoáľany", Hungarian Kecerkosztol ) east of it. Since then, both places have been part of the municipality of Kecerovce.
Kecerovské Kostoľany was first mentioned in writing in 1229, while Kecerovské Kostoľany was mentioned in 1427 as Peklen . Both of these places, which were located in Sharosh County within the Kingdom of Hungary until 1918 , were characterized by agriculture. In the community there is the Church of St. Ladislaus from 1628, an originally late Gothic country castle of the Kecer family from the end of the 15th century, and a Renaissance country castle from 1580–82, today in a state of disrepair.
The site of a planned nuclear power plant , which was already planned in communist Czechoslovakia and was last planned again in 2006, is near the municipality on the way to Vtáčkovce . That is why there was a building ban in the 1980s, but it was lifted after the Velvet Revolution. Most of the young residents left the community and many Roma settled there, who now make up around 80% of the population. In the 2001 census, 62% of the population gave their ethnic group as Roma.