Padáň

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Padáň
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Padáň (Slovakia)
Padáň
Padáň
Basic data
State : Slovakia
Kraj : Trnavský kraj
Okres : Dunajská Streda
Region : Podunajsko
Area : 16.976 km²
Residents : 896 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 53 inhabitants per km²
Height : 113  m nm
Postal code : 929 01 ( Dunajská Streda Post Office )
Telephone code : 0 31
Geographic location : 47 ° 56 '  N , 17 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 55 '51 "  N , 17 ° 40' 57"  E
License plate : DS
Kód obce : 501867
structure
Community type : local community
Administration (as of November 2018)
Mayor : Zoltán Szabó
Address: Obecný úrad Padáň
č. 289
929 01 Dunajská Streda
Website: www.padan.sk
Statistics information on statistics.sk

Padáň (Hungarian Padány ) is a municipality in southwest Slovakia with 896 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). It belongs to the Okres Dunajská Streda , part of the Trnavský kraj .

geography

Reformed church in the village

The municipality is located in the central part of the Great Schüttinsel , part of the Slovak Danube lowlands . The center of the village lies at an altitude of 113  m nm and is nine kilometers from Dunajská Streda .

Neighboring communities are Mad in the north, Dolný Štál in the east, Boheľov in the southeast, Veľký Meder and Pataš in the south and Vrakúň in the west.

history

The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1254/55 as Padan and at that time belonged to the estate of the Pressburg Castle . Towards the end of the 13th century the village came into the possession of the Padányi family . In 1828 there were 73 houses and 527 inhabitants.

Until 1919, the place in Pressburg County belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary and then came to Czechoslovakia or now Slovakia. 1938-45 he was again in Hungary due to the First Vienna Arbitration .

population

According to the 2011 census, Padáň had 861 residents, including 764 Magyars, 69 Slovaks, two Czechs and one Ukrainian. 25 residents gave no answer. 403 residents committed themselves to the Reformed Church, 376 residents to the Roman Catholic Church, seven residents to the Greek Catholic Church, two residents to the Evangelical Methodist Church and one resident each to the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Evangelical Church AB, the Congregational Church and the orthodox church; one resident professed a different denomination. 35 residents had no denomination and 33 residents had no denomination.

Buildings

  • Reformed church in classicist style from 1816

Individual evidence

  1. Results of the 2011 census (Slovak)

Web links

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