Kecerovce

Kecerovce is a municipality in Košice - okolie Okres within the Košice Region of about 3,000 inhabitants.

The town lies on the river in the eastern part of the Košice Olsava kotlina ( Kassa boiler), below the mountains Slanské Hills in the east, on a slightly hilly terrain. The center is located at the altitude of 328 m nm Kecerovce lies about 24 kilometers northeast of the city of Košice.

The municipality was established in 1975 by the merger of formerly independent places Kecerovské Pekľany (up to 1927 " Kecerské Pekľany ", Hungarian Kecerpeklén ) west of the river Olsava and Kecerovské Kostoľany (up to 1927 " Kecerské Kostoľany ", Hungarian Kecerkosztolány ) east of it. Both places have since vilage of Kecerovce.

Kecerovské Kostoľany was for the first time in 1229, while Kecerovské Kostoľany 1427 mentioned as Peklen writing. Both of these lying until 1918 the county damage Rosh within the Kingdom of Hungary places were dominated by agriculture. In the town are the Church of Saint Ladislaus from 1628, originally a late-Gothic castle of the country Kecer family from the late 15th century and a Renaissance castle country from the years 1580-82, now in decaying condition.

In the community on the way to Vtáčkovce is the site of a planned nuclear power plant, which was planned already back in communist Czechoslovakia and the last in 2006. Therefore, in the 1980s, was a building ban, but this was canceled after the Velvet Revolution. Most young residents left the town and settled there many Roma, which today account for about 80 % of the population. At the 2001 census, 62 % of the population gave their ethnicity as Roma.