Ploské (Košice-okolie)

Ploské (Slovak in the 19th century, "Kamenný Potok"; Hungarian Lapispatak ) is a municipality in the east of Slovakia with 943 inhabitants (December 31, 2019) that the okolie Kosice Okres , part of kraj Košický heard.

geography

The village is located in the central part of the Košická kotlina basin on the Torysa . The Bukovina and Kráľovský creeks flow together in the village . The municipal area is flat to slightly hilly and largely used for agriculture. Remnants of the forest can only be found in the east of the municipality. The center of the village lies at an altitude of 218 m nm and is 16 kilometers from Košice and 24 kilometers from Prešov .

In addition to the main town, the village of Ortáše to the east also belongs to the municipality, but it is not part of the municipality.

Neighboring municipalities are Nová Polhora and Šarišské Bohdanovce in the north, Varhaňovce in the northeast, Vtáčkovce and Kecerovce in the east, Kráľovce in the south and Budimír and Bretejovce in the west.

history

Ploské was for the first time before the year 1299 in an unspecified document from Andreas III. mentioned in writing as Lapuspatak and was on an important path. When the nearby town of Drienov was divided in 1304, a road to Lapuspotok was specifically mentioned. The local lords carried the title "de Lapuspataky". The local church was first mentioned in 1309. Between 1332 and 1335, when the church tithe was raised, there was a pastor named Nikolaus.

According to a tax register, there were a total of 30 portals in 1427 , exactly half of which were shared between two local landlords named Tamás and Zsigmond . But in the 16th century the decline began, so that in 1564 there were only four porta. In 1598 there were 25 houses in the village. Since the 17th century Ploské has been a mostly Slovak-speaking village. In the 16th century, members of the Senegy family were landlords, others were from the Kecer family in the 17th century, Desewffy in the 18th century and others. In 1828 there were 96 houses and 733 inhabitants, whose main sources of income were agriculture, livestock and horticulture. A quarry was in operation in the 20th century. After 1907 the new settlement Ortáše was built east of the existing place .

Until 1918/1919 the place in Sáros County belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary and then came to Czechoslovakia or now Slovakia.

population

According to the 2011 census, 849 people lived in Ploské, including 748 Slovaks , 46 Roma , three Czechs and two each of Magyars , Moravians and Ukrainians . Two residents indicated a different ethnic group and 44 residents gave no information about the ethnic group .

536 residents committed themselves to the Roman Catholic Church, 174 residents to the Greek Catholic Church, 39 residents to the Evangelical Church AB, 15 residents to the Orthodox Church, five residents to the Reformed Church, three residents to the Baptists and one resident each to the Seventh Tag Adventists, the Apostolic Church, the Methodist Church and the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. 24 residents had no denomination and the denomination of 49 residents was not determined.

Buildings

Roman Catholic church in late Gothic style from the 19th century
Country palace in early baroque style from 1627
Country palace in mixed Rococo-Classicist style from 1778

Individual evidence

↑ Results of the 2011 census (Slovak)

Web links

Entry on e-obce.sk (Slovak)

[1] Results of the 2011 census (Slovak)