Rybník (Levice)

Rybník ( Hungarian Garamszőllős ) is a municipality in the south of Slovakia with 1435 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019), which belongs to the Okres Levice , part of the Nitriansky kraj .

geography

Hronská ulica street in the village

The community is located on the southwestern edge of the Schemnitz mountains , where they merge into the Danube hill country. The Hron , which flows west of the village, breaks through the foothills through the so-called Slovak Gate ( Slovenská brána in Slovak ). The lower parts of the municipality on the floodplains of the Hron are used intensively for agriculture, viticulture is practiced on the mountain slopes, while the mountains themselves are covered by oak forest. The center of the village is at an altitude of 205 m nm and is two kilometers from Tlmače and ten kilometers from Levice .

Neighboring municipalities are Hronský Beňadik and Tekovská Breznica in the north, Čajkov in the east, Hronské Kosihy in the south, Veľké Kozmálovce in the south-west, Tlmače in the west and Kozárovce in the north-west.

history

Trinity Church in Rybník

In the Early Bronze Age there was a fortified settlement on Mount Kusá hora , the remains of which have been examined annually since 2004 in a collaboration between the Slovak Archaeological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the German RGK .

The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1075 in the founding document of the Hronský Beňadik Abbey as Sceulleus . The name indicates a centuries-old tradition of winemaking. After the Mongol invasion, the property situation was reorganized, with the majority of the property coming to the Archdiocese of Gran and in 1776 transferred to the newly created Diocese of Neusohl . In 1534 there were a total of 32 portals here , in modern times the village was a small town that received market rights in 1781. In 1828 there were 134 houses and 943 inhabitants, who were mainly employed in agriculture.

Until 1918, the place in Persch County belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary and then came to Czechoslovakia or now Slovakia.

population

According to the 2011 census, Rybník had 1,399 inhabitants, of which 1,357 were Slovaks, eight Magyars and Czechs, three Poles and two Moravians and two Russians. 19 residents gave no information in this regard. 1122 residents confessed to the Roman Catholic Church, 23 residents to the Evangelical Church AB, two residents each to the Orthodox Church and the Reformed Church and one resident each to the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Old Catholic Church, the Evangelical Methodist Church and the Jewish community; five residents professed a different denomination. 185 inhabitants had no denomination and the denomination of 56 inhabitants was not determined.

Buildings

Roman Catholic Trinity Church in classicist style from 1771
Chapel in the late classical style from 1855

Individual evidence

↑ 2011 census by ethnicity (Slovak) ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
↑ 2011 census by denomination (Slovak) ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

Commons : Rybník (Levice) - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Entry on e-obce.sk (Slovak)

[1] 2011 census by ethnicity (Slovak) ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

[2] 2011 census by denomination (Slovak) ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )