Brezovica, Tvrdošín District

Brezovica ( Bresowitz German, Hungarian Brezovica ) is a municipality in the north of Slovakia with 1306 inhabitants ( 31 December 2011), which belongs to Okres Tvrdošín, a part of the Žilinský and belongs to the traditional landscape Orava.

Geography

The municipality is located on the edge of the highlands Skorušinské Hills in the source area of the creek trstenik, which flows into Trstená in the Oravica. The center is located at an altitude of 720 m nm and is four kilometers from Trstená and ten kilometers from Tvrdošín.

Neighboring municipalities are Trstená in the north, Liesek in the northeast and east, and Vitanová Habovka in the south and Zábiedovo in the southwest.

History

The town was founded in 1580 as Brezowicza on the occasion of the Thurzos family of a sheriff after Wallachian law; the first inhabitants came from the city Trstená. The name is derived from the Slovak name for birch (Slovak Sg breza ). The village belonged to the manor of Orava Castle and was devastated in 1683 by a Polish-Lithuanian army, but rebuilt quickly. 1728 were counted 884 inhabitants and in 1828, 116 houses and 655 inhabitants, who were employed in agriculture, livestock and linen weaving.

Population

According to the 2011 census lived in Brezovica 1,304 inhabitants, of whom 1,284 Slovaks and one Magyars and poles; three residents were other ethnicity. 15 inhabitants did not know. 1,293 residents pleaded with the Roman Catholic Church and one population to the Evangelical Church AB and the United Methodist Church; a resident was other denomination. Two residents were non-denominational and six inhabitants, the denomination is not determined.

Results according to the census 2001 (1.289 inhabitants):

After Ethnicity:

  • 99.61 % Slovaks
  • 0.23% Poland
  • 0.08 % Roma
  • 0.08 % Czechs

After Confession:

  • 99.30 % Roman Catholic
  • 0.31% no religious affiliation
  • 0.23 % no answer

Structures

  • Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption Church of the Visitation of the years 1883-84
  • Parish church of Cyril and Methodius in 1993
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