Veľké Blahovo
Veľké Blahovo ( until 1948 slovak " Velky Abon "; Hungarian Nagyabony or Nemesabony ) is a municipality in south-western Slovakia with 1451 inhabitants ( 31 December 2011). It belongs to Okres Dunajská Streda, a part of the Trnavský kraj.
Geography
The municipality is located on the Great Rye Island, part of the Slovak Danube lowland. The municipal area is flat, with altitudes ranging from 114 m nm to 117 m nm, north to the Little Danube elongated and mostly covered by Auböden. The center is located at an altitude of 116 m nm and is three kilometers away from Dunajská Streda.
Neighboring municipalities are Vydrany in the north, Dunajská Streda in the east, Kostolné Kračany in the south, Kráľovičove Kračany the southwest, Orechová Potôň in the west and Mostová ( Šoriakoš district ) in the north- west on the Small Danube.
History
Veľké Blahovo was first mentioned in 1162 as terra Oboni writing. The name here is derived from the old Hungarian name Aba. The village belonged to families of the gentry, including among other Ordódy, Csiba and Olgyay mentioned. In 1760-1765 the Ordódy country rococo castle, which was demolished around 1950 but was again. 1828 were counted 131 houses and 940 inhabitants, who were employed in agriculture.
Until 1919 belonged to the county located in the Bratislava city of the Kingdom of Hungary and was then Czechoslovakia or Slovakia today. On the basis of the First Vienna Award, it was 1938-45 again in Hungary.
In 1948, the Hungarian -sounding name was changed to Velky Abon Veľké Blahovo.
Population
According to the 2011 census lived in Veľké Blahovo 1,448 inhabitants, of whom 1,071 Magyars, 307 Slovaks, 17 Roma, Czechs six, five Jews and each one Bulgarian, Croatian, Poles, Serbs and Ukrainians; six inhabitants were of a different ethnicity. 31 inhabitants did not know. 1,013 residents pleaded with the Roman Catholic Church, 193 inhabitants to the Reformed Church, 28 inhabitants to the Evangelical Church AC, seven inhabitants to the Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh- day Adventists, four inhabitants of the Greek Catholic Church and the New Apostolic Church, three inhabitants of the Old Catholic church, two residents to the Mormons and the United Methodist Church and a resident for each Bahaitum, the Jewish community and the Orthodox Church; eight residents were of a different denomination. 88 residents were non-denominational and 86 inhabitants, the denomination is not determined.
Results of the census 2001 (1.242 inhabitants):
After Ethnicity:
- 85.99 % Magyars
- 10.06% Slovaks
- 2.90% Roma
- 0.40% Czechs
- 0.24% Moravians
- 0.08 % Ukrainians
After Confession:
- 74.32 % Roman Catholic
- 4.11% Evangelical
- 2.74% no religious affiliation
- 0.81 % no answer
- 0.40% Greek Catholic
Structures
- Roman Catholic Church in baroque style from 1761
- Chapel in the neo-classical style from the late 19th century
Sons and daughters of the town
- János Bihari (1764-1827), Roma violinist and representatives of the " gypsy music"