GranÄ-Petrovce
Granč - Petrovce ( German Gran sealed - Petersdorf or Gran sealed - Petrowitz, Hungarian Garancspetróc - to 1907 Grancspetróc ) is a municipality in eastern Slovakia with 596 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2011) and belongs to Okres Levoča, a circle of Prešov Region and to traditional landscape Zips.
Geography
The municipality is located in the eastern part of the basin Hornádska kotlina near the mountains Branisko. Through the town of Bach Branisko flows. The center is located at an altitude of 458 m nm and is five kilometers from Spišské Podhradie as well as 19 miles of Levoča away.
Neighboring municipalities are Bijacovce in the north, Beharovce in the northeast, Harakovce in the east, the south and Žehra Spišské Podhradie in the West.
History
The history of the community is made up of the history of the places Granč and Petrovce, the fused towards the middle of the 19th century in a church.
Today's municipal area was permanently settled shortly after the Mongol invasion: Petrovce was for the first time in 1292 as Petrouchsegra, Granč 1344 mentioned as Granch writing. The second mentioned place belonged until 1802 to the tiny county Sedes X lanceatorum ( "Cities of the 10 spearmen ").
1828 there were 15 houses in Granč and 117 inhabitants and 15 houses and 118 inhabitants Petrovce.
Until 1918, the town located in the county of Zips belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary and was then Czechoslovakia or Slovakia today.
Population
According to the 2011 census lived in Torysky 601 inhabitants, of whom 592 Slovaks and Czechs; two residents were of a different ethnicity. Six residents did not know. 572 residents pleaded with the Roman Catholic Church, the Evangelical Church of the four residents, each a resident of the Greek Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. 16 residents were non-denominational and 13 inhabitants, the denomination has not been determined.
Results according to the census 2001 (590 inhabitants):
After Ethnicity:
- 99.15 % Slovaks
- 0.51% Czechs
After Confession:
- 97.80 % Roman Catholic
- 1.53 % no answer
- 0.34% Greek Catholic
Structures
- Repaired Roman Catholic Church of St. Martin in the Renaissance style in 1626, 1815
- Country castle in the late Baroque style from the late 18th century
- Modern church from 1994
Sons and daughters of the town
- Stephan Petróczy of Petrócz (1874-1957), Austro- Hungarian aviation pioneer