Komárovce
Komárovce (Hungarian Komaróc ) is a municipality in eastern Slovakia with 386 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2011) to 8.47 km ². This makes it one of the smallest by area and population communities in Okres Košice - okolie, a part of the Košice Region.
Geography
The municipality is located in the southern part of the basin Košická kotlina, about 18 kilometers southwest of Kosice. In the municipality of Komárovce the coming out of the foothills of the Slovak Ore Mountains streams Lučný creek and creek Komárovský unite in order to flow through the Ida, a Bodva Creek. The center is located at an altitude of 198 m nm on level durchzogenem of numerous small drainage ditches terrain. The wealth of water birds in this wetland symbolizes a stork in the municipal coat of arms.
Neighboring communities of Komárovce are Velka Ida in the northeast and southeast, and Cestice in the west and northwest.
History
The area around Komárovce was already in the Neolithic inhabited what proved tape ceramic finds of Bükk culture.
In 1365 the village was first mentioned in an inventory certificate. The name first appeared Komárovce 1402. 1427 were counted 120 residents. The oldest seal of the municipality dates back to the year, 1754.
1910 lived mainly Hungarian residents in the village of 445. Until 1918 Komárovce / Komaróc was like all lying in the county Abaúj- Torna and mostly Hungarian-speaking places the Kingdom of Hungary and then came to Czechoslovakia. After the First Vienna Award they were from 1938 to 1945 again in Hungary.
Population
According to the results of the 2001 census lived in Komárovce 394 inhabitants, of which
- 84.26 % Hungary and
- 15.74 % Slovaks.
42.1 % of residents pleaded with the Roman Catholic Church ..
Attractions
- The oldest religious building in Komárovce is the Reformed Church ( kostol reformovanej cirkvi ) from the early 19th century. It stands in the center.
- The Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption ( kostol Nanebovstupenia Pana ) was built in 1925 at the north end of the village.
Partnership
Komárovce maintains a partnership with the Hungarian community Boldogkőváralja.
Economy and infrastructure
The community has retained its rural character. The residents work in agriculture, services, or commute to the industrial plants in and around Košice. The village has a grocery store, a post office and a small pharmacy.
Through the municipal area the road from Buzica goes according Velka Ida. Komárovce has a break point on the railway line Košice - Barca Rožňava.