Tlmače

Tlmače (until 1927 in Slovak also "Tlmač"; in Hungarian Garamtolmács - until 1902 Tolmács ) is a small town in central Slovakia with 3520 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in Okres Levice .

geography

The Hron at Tlmače

Tlmače is located at the transition from the Slovak Danube lowlands to the western foothills of the Schemnitz Mountains on both sides of the Hron river , just below the Slovenská brána valley . Immediately south of the city, the Hron flows through the small Veľké Kozmálovce reservoir . The city center is located at an altitude of 175 m nm and is ten kilometers from Levice and about 45 kilometers from Nitra .

The town consists of two parts: the original left bank Tlmače and the right bank Lipník .

Neighboring municipalities are Rybník in the north and east, Veľké Kozmálovce in the south, Malé Kozmálovce in the south-west and Kozárovce in the north-west.

history

Church in the Lipník district

The present urban area was settled in the Stone Age. In the 9th century there was a Slavic fortress here, at the same time as further settlement of the area, which continued in the 10th century. Tlmače was mentioned for the first time in 1075 in a document from King Géza I about goods donated to the Abbey of Hronský Beňadik as Talmach . At that time, according to this document, Tlmače was a fishing village (villa piscatorum) . In 1209 part of the place was under the rule of the Persch Castle, in the 14th century it was owned by several noble families as well as the abbey of Hronský Beňadik. In 1543 five porta were listed in a tax register . In 1565 the property came to the Gran chapter.

The 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries were troubled times: at the beginning of the 17th century, Ottoman troops looted Tlmače, which was temporarily part of the Ottoman Empire. In May 1664 an army under the imperial general de Souches crossed the Hron, which in July 1664 was able to defeat an Ottoman relief army in the battle of Lewenz. In 1709 a battle between an imperial army and Kuruc took place near Tlmače during the Rákoczi uprising .

In 1715 the village had 19 taxpayers, in 1828 there were 38 houses and 250 inhabitants in the agricultural town.

Until 1918/1919, the place in Bars County belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary and then came to Czechoslovakia or now Slovakia. In September 1936 a concrete bridge over the Hron was opened to traffic. Between 1938 and 1945, Tlmače was a border town to Hungary as a result of the First Vienna Arbitration .

In 1951 the construction of a plant structure was completed. On January 1, 1986, the place was given city status. In the same year, the neighboring towns of Malé Kozmálovce and Veľké Kozmálovce were merged with the city, but were spun off again in 1995.

population

According to the 2011 census, Tlmače had 3823 inhabitants, including 3548 Slovaks , 59 Magyars , 33 Czechs , 12 Roma , four Russians , two Germans , two Poles , Ukrainians and one Moravian . Two residents indicated a different ethnic group and 158 residents gave no information about the ethnic group .

2547 residents committed to the Roman Catholic Church, 189 residents to the Evangelical Church AB, 20 residents to the Reformed Church, 16 residents to the Evangelical Methodist Church, 15 residents to the Jehovah's Witnesses and seven residents to the Greek Catholic Church; a total of 28 residents professed a different denomination. 644 residents had no denomination and the denomination of 357 residents was not determined.

Culture

There are two Roman Catholic churches in Tlmače: the Church of the Seven Sorrows of Mary from 1926 in the original location and the modern Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Lipník district.

The city annually organizes the Tlmačský polmaratón (German half marathon of Tlmače). The Spartak Tlmače football club is based in the village.

education

There are two kindergartens in the city, one elementary and one elementary arts school as well as a technical college.

Economy and Transport

Tlmače is the seat of the SES Tlmače company .

The 1st order road 76 between Hronský Beňadik and Štúrovo passes through the village . This is where the 2nd order road 564 begins, which also connects Tlmače with Štúrovo via Levice . The city has a train station on the Nové Zámky – Zvolen railway line with several daily local train pairs.

Individual evidence

↑ Results of the 2011 census (Slovak)
↑ Školstvo a vzdelávanie , City of Tlmače, accessed on February 4, 2017

Web links

Entry on e-obce.sk (Slovak)

Commons : Tlmače - collection of images, videos and audio files

[1] Results of the 2011 census (Slovak)

[2] Školstvo a vzdelávanie , City of Tlmače, accessed on February 4, 2017