Sokoľany

Sokoľany (until 1927 Slovak "Sokoľany"; Hungarian Abaújszakaly - to 1907 Szakaly ) is a municipality in the east of Slovakia with a population of 1,378 (December 31, 2019) that the okolie Kosice Okres , part of Košický kraj belongs. It is part of the traditional Abov landscape .

geography

The village is located in the Košická kotlina basin by the Sokoliansky brook . The municipality is relatively small and completely deforested. The center of the village is located at an altitude of 213 m nm and is 15 kilometers away from downtown Košice .

Neighboring municipalities are Haniska in the northeast and east, Seňa and Bočiar in the south and Košice ( Šaca district ) in the west.

history

According to archaeological studies, the present municipality was first settled in the 7th and 8th centuries. A burial site from the 11th and 12th centuries indicates permanent settlement.

The current place was first mentioned in writing in 1268 as Zakál and at that time was the location of a monastery that belonged to the Jossau convent . Until the end of the Middle Ages, the goods belonged to the Aba family and their descendants. In 1828 there were 93 houses and 656 inhabitants who were employed in agriculture.

Until 1918/1919, the place in Abaúj-Torna County belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary and then came to Czechoslovakia or now Slovakia. Due to the First Vienna Arbitration Award , he was again in Hungary from 1938 to 1945.

From 1961 to 1990 the municipality of Sokoľany was merged with the municipality of Bočiar to form the unified municipality Hutníky .

Since 1997 the municipality has been involved in a legal dispute with the city of Košice, in particular about property tax income from the lucrative properties (around 700 hectares in total) in the area of the US Steel Košice steelworks . The cause of the dispute goes back to 1981, when a piece of land covering more than 3700 hectares was separated from a total of 14 municipalities, including the former Hutníky municipality, and assigned to the city of Košice. From 2009 to 2011, the land in question again belonged to the Sokoľany municipality, but this was reversed after further court decisions.

population

According to the 2011 census, 1269 people lived in Sokoľany, of which 1050 were Slovaks, 169 Roma, seven Czechs, two Germans, two Magyars and one Russian; one resident belonged to a different ethnic group. 35 residents gave no information in this regard. 1051 residents professed to the Roman Catholic Church, 44 residents to the Greek Catholic Church, three residents to the Evangelical Church AB, two residents to the Reformed Church and one resident each to the Baha'itum and the Orthodox Church. 108 inhabitants were without religious denomination and the denomination was not determined for 57 inhabitants.

Buildings

Church of Our Lady of the Rosary

Baroque style Roman Catholic Church of Mary of the Rosary from 1773
Country palace in baroque style from the 18th century

Individual evidence

↑ Súd Vrátil časť územia pod oceliarňami Košiciam , Pravda on April 2, 2014. Retrieved on May 24, 2014
↑ 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

Entry on e-obce.sk (Slovak)

[1] Súd Vrátil časť územia pod oceliarňami Košiciam , Pravda on April 2, 2014. Retrieved on May 24, 2014

[2] 2011 census by ethnicity (Slovak) ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

[3] 2011 census by denomination (Slovak) ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )