Uhrovec
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Slovakia | ||
| Kraj : | Trenčiansky kraj | ||
| Okres : | Bánovce nad Bebravou | ||
| Region : | Horná Nitra | ||
| Area : | 22.948 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1,514 (Dec. 31, 2019) | ||
| Population density : | 66 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Height : | 300 m nm | ||
| Postal code : | 956 41 | ||
| Telephone code : | 0 38 | ||
| Geographic location : | 48 ° 45 ′ N , 18 ° 20 ′ E | ||
| License plate : | BN | ||
| Kód obce : | 505625 | ||
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| Community type : | local community | ||
| Structure of the municipality: | 2 parts of the community | ||
| Administration (as of November 2018) | |||
| Mayor : | Zuzana Máčeková | ||
| Address: | Obecný úrad Uhrovec SNP 86/7 95641 Uhrovec |
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| Website: | www.uhrovec.sk | ||
| Statistics information on statistics.sk | |||
Uhrovec (Hungarian Zayugróc ) is a municipality in northwest Slovakia , in the Strážovské vrchy Mountains . It is located about 8 km from Bánovce nad Bebravou and 30 km from Trenčín .
history
The place was first mentioned in writing as Vgrovg in 1258 . Until 1918 the place was in the Kingdom of Hungary in Trenčín County , after which it came to the newly formed Czechoslovakia . Until 1945, a large part of the place was under the rule of the Zay family , who also gave a part of the village its Hungarian name. The inhabitants were mainly employed in agriculture, viticulture, sheep farming and fishing. In the middle of the 19th century there was also a woodworks in the village, which still exists as Drevovýrobu sro to this day, but the glass industry, which at times belonged to the company J. Schreiber & Neffen , no longer exists.
In 1968 the village of Látkovce further south was incorporated.
Attractions
- Uhrovec Castle , built in 1613 in the Renaissance style
- Protestant church from 1940
- Uhrovec Castle , built in the 13th century and located in the mountains east of the village
Personalities
- Ľudovít Štúr (1815–1856), activist of the Slovak national movement
- Alexander Dubček (1921–1992), politician
- Ladislav Szántó (1894–1974), Slovak philosopher
- Igor Kišš (* 1932), Slovak Protestant theologian
literature
- Ernst Hochberger: The big book of Slovakia . Hochberger, Sinn 1997, p. 68
