BrezoviÄka
Brezovicka (Slovak 1927-1948 " Hamborek " - to 1927 " Hamburek "; German Hamburg or Hamborg, Hungarian Hámbor - to 1907 Hamborg ) is a municipality in eastern Slovakia with a population of 430 (as at 31 December 2011). It belongs to Okres Sabinov, a circle of Prešov kraj, as well as the traditional landscape Saris.
Geography
The municipality is located on the eastern slope of the mountains in the valley of the brook Levočské Slavkovský creek. The center is located at an altitude of 494 m nm and is 24 km from Sabinov, 37 kilometers from Levoča and 42 km from Prešov away.
History
Brezovicka was founded in the mid- 13th century and was first mentioned in 1320 as Haynburg writing. Already in 1307 the gender of the Berzeviczy had built a castle above the village, which probably stood in the district Zámčisko and went down in the 15th century. Traces of this oval -scale Hamborek can still be seen. And this is in the origin of the name. " Ham " called a spur; According to this meaning of the name means " castle on a spur ."
The village was many years in the territory of Torysa. In the late Middle Ages, there was near a monastery of the Carthusians. 1787 were counted 63 houses, 84 houses and 624 inhabitants in 1828, the farmers and grain merchants were. The village school, founded in 1868, received in 1907 a new building. In the 1930s there were three sawmills in the village and three mills.
Until 1918, the in- former county damage Rosh place belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary, came afterwards to Czechoslovakia and now belongs to the 1993 newly independent Slovakia. 1948, after the Communist takeover, Brezovicka was among the more than 700 municipalities with Hungarian and German names roots who received a Slovak form of the name for political reasons.
Population
According to the 2011 census lived in Brezovicka 429 inhabitants, of whom 409 Slovaks and Czechs two. 18 inhabitants did not know. 400 people known to the Roman Catholic Church and three residents to the Greek Catholic Church and the Czechoslovak- Hussite Church. At 23 inhabitants, the denomination is not determined.
Results according to the census 2001 (422 inhabitants):
After Ethnicity:
- 96.45 % Slovaks
- 2.13% Roma
- 0.24% Poland
- 0.24% Czechs
After Confession:
- 93.84 % Roman Catholic
- 5.45 % no answer
- 0.47% Greek Catholic
- 0.24% Czechoslovak- Hussite
Structures
- Roman Catholic St. Martin's Church, originally built in the 13th century, the Baroque style in 1713, expanded 1857-59
- Countryside chateau in 1603, was once the seat of the 1984 resolution Elementary School
- Chapel in the classical style from 1830
Sons and daughters of the town
- Henrich Berzeviczy (1652-1713), writer and mathematician