BoÄiar

Bočiar ( until 1927 slovak " Bocar " to 1948 " Bočar "; Hungarian Bocsárd ) is a small town in eastern Slovakia with a population of 234 (as at 31 December 2011). It is located in Okres Košice - okolie kraj part of Košice.

0.47 km ² (about 50 football fields) is Bočiar the smallest by area municipality in Košice Region and one of the smallest municipalities in Slovakia. The municipality is located in Košice basin ( Košická kotlina ), the brook Sokoliansky creek, which joins to the Hungarian border with the river Sarto and Hidasnémeti flows into the Hornád. The municipal area has neither fields, pastures or forests - it consists exclusively of the settlement land.

Neighboring communities of Bočiar are Sokoľany in the north, Seňa the east and south and the district of Košice Šaca in the West.

Bočiar was first mentioned in 1249 as Boltsschar documented. In the 14th and 15th centuries the men changed over the village several times within various noble families. After the looting by Turkish troops in 1652 increasingly attracted Slovak -born settlers to Bočiar.

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Emmerich ( svätého Imricha / Szent Imre ) dates from 1773. According to the First Vienna Award Bočiar also belonged from 1938 to 1945 the Hungarian county Abaúj.

Formative for the further development was the construction of the East Slovakian Steelworks (now U.S. Steel Košice ) in the mid 1960s three kilometers northwest of the village. From 1961 to 1990 Bočiar was with the church today Sokoľany a part of the now defunct community Hutníky.

According to the results of the 2001 census lived in Bočiar 223 inhabitants, of which 96.9 % Slovaks. 82.5 % of residents pleaded with the Roman Catholic Church.

The steel mill complex U.S. Steel Košice is by far the largest employer in the entire region, but it brings to the people of Bočiar also loads. Here the pollutants of exhaust gases could be mentioned that in special weather conditions and northwestern winds lead to impairments and noise of the blast furnaces and the sounds during the unloading of coal and iron ore in the railway Entladeterminal in the southeast of the steel plant site ( The coal is from the area around Ostrava delivered by rail, the iron ore comes from the Ukrainian Krivoy Rog on the broad gauge route Uzhgorod - Košice ). A west of the village located Entladeterminal for aggregates and Auskleidestoffe that are needed for the production of steel and the lining of converters and blast furnaces (eg magnesite), provides additional noise. Another burden on the residents are rolling around the clock through the village hundreds of heavily laden trucks.