Kunerad

Kunerad (Slovak to 1927 KUNERAD; Hungarian Kenyered - to 1907 Kunyerad ) is a municipality in the north of Slovakia with 974 inhabitants ( 31 December 2011) in Okres Žilina, a circle of Žilinský.

Geography

History

The town was first mentioned in 1490 as Hynyarad writing. In the Middle Ages the town was a single settlement in the neighboring village Kamenná Poruba.

1828 are 33 houses and 309 inhabitants recorded and the population lived from agriculture, livestock and local quarry.

Population

Results according to the census 2001 (908 inhabitants):

After Ethnicity:

  • 99.67 % Slovaks
  • 0.33% Czechs

After Confession:

  • 96.70 % Roman Catholic
  • 1.32 % no answer
  • 1.21% no religious affiliation

Structures

  • Roman Catholic Church of Exaltation of the Cross, in 1990 completed
  • Kunerad Castle (Slovak Kuneradský zámok ) Art Nouveau above the village in the Mala Fatra. Built in 1916 as a hunting lodge set by the Prussian Junker Ballestrem of Nazi troops in 1944 on fire after the castle was the seat of a partisan brigade during the SNP. 1959 restored and dedicated as a sanatorium of the bath Rajecké Teplice. Since 1989, the castle is privately owned and is currently unused.
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