Bolešov

Bolešov (Hungarian Bolesó ) is a municipality in the north- west of Slovakia with 1545 inhabitants ( 31 December 2011), which is in Okres Ilava, a part of the Trenčín Region.

Geography

The municipality is located in the central part of the basin Ilavská kotlina on the right bank of the Waag. North-north- west of the town, the municipality goes to the White Carpathians and is covered in its entirety by Auböden and brown forest soils. The center is located at an altitude of 230 m nm and is six kilometers from Dubnica nad Váhom and eleven kilometers from Ilava away.

Neighboring municipalities are Krivoklát in the north, Kameničany in the east, Dubnica nad Váhom in the south, the west and Borčice Horne Srnie in the northwest.

History

Bolešov was first mentioned in 1331 as Bolleso writing and belonged in the Middle Ages to the gentry. 1828 were counted 33 houses and 554 inhabitants, who were employed in agriculture and pottery.

Until 1918, belonged to the county located in the Trenčín place the Kingdom of Hungary and was then Czechoslovakia or Slovakia. 1943, the neighboring Piechov was incorporated and today is no longer part of the municipality.

1979-1990 were also Borčice, Kameničany, Sedmerovec and Slavnica part of the community.

Population

According to the 2011 census lived in Bolešov 1,526 inhabitants, of whom 1,443 Slovaks, Czechs and ten each a Magyar and Russine. 71 inhabitants did not know. 1,330 residents pleaded with the Roman Catholic Church, the Evangelical Church of the 16 residents, six inhabitants to the apostolic church, two residents to the Mormons, the Seventh- day Adventist Church and the Jewish community and in each case a population of Jehovah's Witnesses and the Greek Catholic Church; a resident had a different denomination. 72 residents were non-denominational and 93 inhabitants, the denomination is not determined.

Results according to the census 2001 (1.438 inhabitants):

After Ethnicity:

• 98.68 % Slovaks
• 1.04% Czechs
• 0.14% of Hungarians
• 0.07 % Ukrainians

After Confession:

• 97.01 % Roman Catholic
• 2.23% no religious affiliation
• 0.21 % Evangelical
• 0.21 % no answer

Structures

• Chapel from the end of the 18th century
• Country chateau, originally a Baroque 17th century in the Renaissance style in the 18th century and rebuilt 1870-1880