Rišňovce

Rišňovce ( Ritschen German, Hungarian Récsény ) is a municipality in western Slovakia, with 2085 inhabitants ( 31 December 2011). Administratively it belongs to the Okres Nitra, which in turn belongs to the district Nitriansky kraj.

Geography

The municipality is located in Danube hilly country, a part of the Slovak Danube lowland on the right bank of the creek ANDAC. It is located on the regional road 513 between Hlohovec, 11 kilometers to the northwest and Nitra, 18 kilometers to the east.

History

Today's church was built in 1925 by the merger of two Rišňovce places: Dolné Rišňovce ( German sub - Ritschen, Hungarian Alsórécsény ) and Horne Rišňovce ( German upper Ritschen, Hungarian Felsőrécsény ).

Dolné Rišňovce was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1272 as a rake, Horne Rišňovce 1388 as Kisreschen. In the 16th century the families Országh, Lossonczy Torday and were in possession of the lower village, while in the upper village, it was the families Torday, Motešický and Sándor. Both villages were in 1599 and 1600 drawn from the attacking Turks affected.

Both places in the county Neutra belonged until 1918 to the Kingdom of Hungary and came afterwards to the newly formed Czechoslovakia.

Population

According to the 2011 census lived in Rišňovce 2,076 inhabitants, of whom 2,044 Slovaks, Czechs six, three Hungarians, two Moravians and each is a Jew and Roma; three residents were other ethnicity. 16 inhabitants did not know. 1,826 residents pleaded with the Roman Catholic Church, the Evangelical Church of the 32 residents and two inhabitants of the Greek Catholic Church and the evangelical church. 158 inhabitants were non-denominational and 46 inhabitants, the denomination is not determined.

Results according to the census 2001 (1.912 inhabitants):

After Ethnicity:

  • 99.37 % Slovaks
  • 0.16% Czechs
  • 0.10% Magyars
  • 0.05 % Moravians

After Confession:

  • 92.89 % Roman Catholic
  • 3.40% no religious affiliation
  • 1.57 % no answer
  • 1.46% Evangelical
  • 0.21 % Orthodox
  • 0.16% Greek Catholic

Structures

  • Roman Catholic Church of the Trinity in the late Baroque style from 1775
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