Kobyly (Slovakia)

Kobyly (until 1927 Slovak "Kobulie" or "Kobyle"; Hungarian Lófalu ) is a municipality in the east of Slovakia with 859 inhabitants (December 31, 2019). It belongs to the Okres Bardejov , a Prešovský kraj district , and is part of the traditional Šariš landscape .

geography

View of Kobyly from the south

The village is located in the Bartošovská kotlina basin on the edge of the Low Beskydy Mountains , on the upper reaches of the Brodok brook . The center of the village lies at an altitude of 374 m nm and is 11 kilometers from Bardejov .

Neighboring municipalities are Kľušov in the north, Rešov in the northeast and east, Tročany in the southeast, Janovce in the south and Bartošovce in the west.

history

The place was first mentioned in writing in 1277 in a primitive child as villa Kobula . There, the knight Otto von Bieberstein is confirmed to own several villages along the border with Poland. Other historical names include Kabalafalua (1366), Lovrfalua (1427), Koberdorff (1443), Koboldorph (1449) and Loffawla or Kobyldorff (1589). At the beginning of the 14th century, the village was owned by the Amadé family , after being confiscated because of resistance to Charles I Robert , it was assigned to the Perényi family . In 1427 there were 42 portals in a tax register, which at that time corresponded to a large village, but Kobyly still shrank in the 15th century due to incursions by Polish troops and the Hussite Wars.

In the early 16th century, the powerful Zápolya family owned local estates . In 1547 they came to the dominion of the city of Bartfeld, which kept the village until 1756. In 1600 the village had 26 inhabited houses, a school, a rectory, a church and a mill and was almost exclusively inhabited by subjects. The last owners came from the Klobusiczky family . In 1828 there were 80 houses and 604 inhabitants who were employed as carters, farmers, horse traders and breeders.

The place in Sáros County belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary until 1918 and then came to Czechoslovakia or now Slovakia. A fire in 1938 killed 40 houses.

population

According to the 2011 census, there were 858 inhabitants in Kobyly, 845 of whom were Slovaks , four Ukrainians and one Czech . Eight residents did not provide any information about their ethnicity .

798 residents committed themselves to the Roman Catholic Church, 29 residents to the Evangelical Church AB, 15 residents to the Greek Catholic Church and four residents to the Orthodox Church. Four residents were non-denominational and the denomination was not determined for eight residents.

Building

Roman Catholic Church of the Sacrifice of the Virgin Mary in neo-Gothic style from 1886

traffic

A section of the 2nd order road 545 (II / 545) runs through Kobyly between Kapušany and Bardejov . The Kapušany pri Prešove – Bardejov railway passes west of the town; the next stop is in Bartošovce, six kilometers away by road.

Individual evidence

↑ slovniky.korpus.sk , accessed on November 22, 2015
↑ 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@ 2

Web links

Commons : Kobyly - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Entry on e-obce.sk (Slovak)

[1] slovniky.korpus.sk , accessed on November 22, 2015

[2] 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@ 2