Plavecký Mikuláš
Plavecký Mikuláš ( Slovak to 1960 " Plavecký Svätý Mikuláš "; German bladder stone - Saint Nicholas, Hungarian Detrekőszentmiklós ) is a municipality in Okres Malacky within the Bratislavský kraj in Slovakia.
Geography
The place is located in the Záhorská nížina ( Zahorie lowlands ) on the west slope of the Little Carpathians in the landscape Zahorie ( German Marchauen ) by the stream Stary Potok. It is 26 kilometers from Malacky, 27 kilometers from Senica and 60 kilometers from Bratislava.
In the Small Carpathians, there is the nature reserve Kršlenica within the nature reserve Small Carpathians. The reserve was established to protect karst landscape and rare plant and animal species. There, the caves are Deravá scale ( " leaky rock " ), Tmavá scale ( "Dark Rock " ) and Čierna scale ( "Black Rock ").
History
Plavecký Mikuláš 1394 was mentioned as Zentmiklos, 1444 then as Sanctus Nicolaus writing. A church there were already 1224, but has not been preserved.
Until 1918, the place was in the county Pressburg in the Kingdom of Hungary and came afterwards to the newly formed Czechoslovakia. 1960 Svätý attribute ( = holy ) by the name has been removed for political reasons.