Hrnčiarske Zalužany

Hrnčiarske Zalužany (Hungarian Fazekaszsaluzsány ) is a municipality in the southern central Slovakia Slovakia with 872 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2011) and belongs to Okres Poltár, kraj a circle of Banskobystrický.

Geography

The municipality is located in the east of the basin Lučenská kotlina (part of Juhoslovenská kotlina ) in the valley of the stream Sucha. The center is located at an altitude of 220 m nm and is ten kilometers from Poltár, and 15 kilometers from Rimavská Sobota.

Neighboring municipalities are Hrnčiarska Ves in the west and north, the east and Susany Ožďany in the south.

History

The place was probably in the 12th century and was for the first time in 1323 ( another source 1362 ) mentioned as Zalusan writing. The village belonged to the families Jánoky and Jákóffy, different in modern times small noblemen. 1828 were counted 80 houses and 605 inhabitants, who were employed in agriculture, manufacture of shingles and refractory bricks, but especially of pottery.

Until 1918, the in- county Gemer and small Hont place belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary and was then Czechoslovakia or the present-day Slovakia. To date, there continues the tradition of pottery with a production cooperative and some private pottery.

Population

According to the 2011 census lived in Hrnčiarske Zalužany 874 inhabitants, of whom 810 Slovaks, Magyars 15, two Russians and Czechs and each one German and one Rome. 42 inhabitants did not know. 615 residents pleaded with the Roman Catholic Church, six inhabitants to the Reformed Church, 37 inhabitants belonged to the Evangelical Church AC, three inhabitants of United Methodist Church, the Greek Catholic Church and the Reformed Church, two residents to the Jehovah's Witnesses and each one population to Judaism and the Orthodox Church; seven residents were of a different denomination. 141 inhabitants were non-denominational and 61 inhabitants, the denomination has not been determined.

Results according to the census 2001 (877 inhabitants):

After Ethnicity:

  • 98.40 % Slovaks
  • 0.80% Magyars
  • 0.11% Czechs

After Confession:

  • 83.92 % Roman Catholic
  • 8.67% no religious affiliation
  • 4.22% Evangelical
  • 2.74 % no answer
  • 0.11 % Orthodox

Structures

  • Roman Catholic Church from 1892
  • Chapel in the classical style from 1825
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