Skakovci
Skakovci (German: Skakofzen , Hungarian: Szécsényfa ) is a place and part of the municipality of Cankova in Slovenia . It is located in the historic Prekmurje / Übermurgebiet region, on the Styrian border.
geography
The local area occupies the southern area of the municipality of Cankova and lies between the border stream Kutschenitza / Kučnica and the river Limbach / Ledava in the wide plain of Ravensko. The village corridor touches the district of Southeast Styria in the west, the municipality of Tišina in the south and the neighboring municipality of Puconci in the east .
The village boundary covers an area of 503 hectares (5.03 km²) and consists mainly of meadows and arable land. Smaller patches of forest are located in the southwest of the village and along the Dobel brook, which flows through the local area.
The village of Skakovci consists of 58 agricultural properties and houses, which are mainly lined up along the two main streets. It is located about 10 km northwest of Murska Sobota at an altitude of 206 m. i. J. and has 217 inhabitants (2002) who live in 60 households. The settlement belongs to the Roman Catholic parish of Cankova and the Protestant parish of Bodonci . Skakovci can be reached via the two main roads No. 440 and No. 715.
history
The settlement is first mentioned in a document dated December 25, 1365 as "Zomoyanfolua" . At that time the village belonged to the manorial Felsőlendva (Oberlimbach today degrees ), owned by the Hungarian magnate family Széchy was. Shortly afterwards, on January 26, 1366, the place was called "Kupretfalua" : "villa seu possessio Kupretfalua iuxta fluuium Olsinch de nouo locata" , whereby the Kutschenitza is also mentioned with "Olsinch" . In 1499 the village was named "Zthakowcz" .
During the church visitation initiated by the diocese of Raab / Győr , which was carried out by Stefan Kazó , the archdeacon of Eisenburg / Vasvár , in the area of Tótság in 1698, the village belonging to the old Tišina parish comes under the names "Skákocz" and "Szkákocz" in front. At that time there were 115 adult residents, 100 Protestant and 15 Catholic .
In 1786 the cartographer Korabinsky mentioned the place "Skakócz" in his lexicon and in 1804 included it in his maps. In 1833 Thiele describes the village in his work on the Kingdom of Hungary: Szkakocz, Slavic village, with 30 houses and 218 mostly Roman Catholic inhabitants, branch of Hideg-kut, viticulture, lots of meadow wax and pasture, forest, belongs to the Felsö dominion -Lendva. 1 hour from Radkersburg am Bache Kutsincza and the Styrian border .
The place is also mentioned in the Geographical Lexicon of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1858: Skakocz (Szkakócz), Wendish village, in the administrative area Oedenburg, Eisenburg County, Olsnitz district, with 183 Catholic and 35 Protestant residents .
In 1890 the village was officially called Szécsényfa and had 360 inhabitants, 350 of whom were Slovenes , 8 were Germans , one person called himself a Hungarian and one indicated a different ethnic group . In 1910 the place had 349 inhabitants, the colloquial language at that time was: 316 Slovene, 32 Hungarian and 1 German. The village belonged to the Muraszombat district of the Eisenburg County until the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy .
The Treaty of Trianon gave the village to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia . For the place now officially called "Skakovci", the first Yugoslav census on January 31, 1921 determined the following data: 376 residents with Slovene mother tongue, 294 people professed to be Catholic and 82 to Protestant faith. In 1937 the place consisted of 63 houses and had 339 inhabitants, who were spread over 60 households.
During the Second World War , the Übermur area was under Hungarian administration from April 16, 1941 until the end of the war and Skakovci had to change its place name back to Szécsényfa. In 1948 the place had 298 inhabitants, in 1953 there were 319 and for 1961 322 were named. In 1971 the village had 68 houses and 303 inhabitants with 71 households, 241 people lived exclusively on income from agriculture.
Personalities of the place
- Ludvik (Ljudevit) Vrečič, also Lajos Vrecsics (1900–1945), painter .
literature
- Matija Slavič, Naše Prekmurje. Murska Sobota, 1999.
- Ivan Zelko : Zgodovina Prekmurja , Pomurska založba, Murska Sobota, 1996, ISBN 86-7195-203-7 .
- Jože Sraka, u. A .: Prekmurci in Prekmurje . Melinci, Rim, Chicago, 1984.
- Miroslav Kokolj, Prekmurski Slovenci od nacionalne osvoboditve do fašistične okupacije 1919 - 1941. Murska Sobota, 1984.
- Ivan Zelko, Historična Topografija Slovenije I. Prekmurje do leta 1500. Murska Sobota, 1982.
Web links
References and comments
- ^ Johann Matthias Korabinsky: Geographical-historical and product encyclopedia of Hungary . Page 709.
- ^ Johann Matthias Korabinsky: Atlas regni Hungariae portatilis . Map: District of the Wends, called Tótság .
- ↑ JC von Thiele: The Kingdom of Hungary , Volume 2, Kaschau, 1833, page 96.
- ^ Viktor Hornyánsky: Geographical Lexicon of the Kingdom of Hungary . Pest, 1858, 336.