Trhovište

Trhovište (Hungarian Vásárhely ) is a municipality in eastern Slovakia with 2046 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). Administratively it belongs to the Okres Michalovce , which is part of the Košický kraj district . According to the 2001 census (1703 inhabitants), Trhovište is almost exclusively Slovak (97.3%), with a small Roma minority (1%).

geography

The municipality is located in the eastern Slovak lowlands at an altitude of 130 m nm. The Rakovec brook flows past the western town , just before it flows into the Ondava . Trhovište is located on trunk road 50 and is 11 kilometers away from Sečovce and Michalovce, respectively.

history

The place was probably built around 1100, at the intersection of two streets, where there was a market. Both Slovak and Hungarian names mean something like “place where a market takes place”. The first documented mention comes from 1220 as Vasarhel . From the 14th to the 17th century, the place belonged to the Drugeth family and joined them to the estate of Brekov Castle. In the 16th and 17th centuries, tolls were even levied here. After a high point at the end of the 16th century, however, there was a long-term decline. In 1828 there were 101 houses and 754 residents here.

The place in Semplin County belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary until 1919 and then became part of Czechoslovakia.

Attractions

neoclassical Greek Catholic Church from 1818
Originally a late baroque, later classicist, Roman Catholic church of John the Baptist from 1759
reformed Church