Kuklov

Kuklov ( German Kug [e ] lhof or Kuchelhof, Hungarian Kuklo ) is a municipality in western Slovakia with 804 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2011), which belongs to Okres Senica, a circle of Trnavský kraj.

Geography

The municipality is located in the traditional landscape Zahorie, geomorphological lowlands Záhorská nížina on the left bank of the Myjava, near the Czech border. The center is located at an altitude of 162 m nm and is seven kilometers from Šaštín - Stráže, 25 kilometers from Senica and 69 km from Bratislava.

Neighboring municipalities are Čáry in the north, Šaštín - Stráže in the east, Bory Jur in the south and Kúty in the northwest.

History

The town was first mentioned in 1394 as Kyklew writing and was built on an ancient trade route from Bratislava to Hollitsch. The village was owned by the Count of St. Georgen and Bösing, in the 16th century the rule of goods of the castle Ostry Kamen and Šaštín and gender Csobor and Bakics. 1720 are a mill and 39 taxpayers, including 20 from the lower nobility, recorded; 1828 were counted 238 houses and 1,704 inhabitants.

Until 1918, belonged to the county located in the Bratislava city of the Kingdom of Hungary and was then Czechoslovakia or Slovakia today.

Population

According to the 2011 census lived in Kuklov 797 inhabitants, of whom 744 Slovaks, nine Roma, three Czechs and a Ukrainian; a resident had a different ethnic group. 39 inhabitants did not know. 675 inhabitants belonged to the Roman Catholic Church, Old Catholic Church for eight inhabitants, seven inhabitants to the Evangelical Church AB, five inhabitants to the Congregational Church and each one population to the Greek Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. 30 residents were non-denominational and 101 inhabitants, the denomination has not been determined.

Results according to the census 2001 (762 inhabitants):

After Ethnicity:

  • 96.46 % Slovaks
  • 2.76% Roma
  • 0.66% Czechs
  • 0.13 % Magyars

After Confession:

  • 93.44 % Roman Catholic
  • 4.33% no religious affiliation
  • 1.18% Evangelical
  • 0.79 % no answer

Structures

  • Roman Catholic Church of St. Stephen with Stations of the Cross, the core dates from the 14th century, but took today's classicist appearance in the late 18th century

Personalities

  • Juraj Papánek (1738-1802), Slovak priest and historian
  • Andrej Žarnov (1903-1982), Slovak poet of the so-called " Catholic modernism"
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