Liptovská Kokava
Liptovská Kokava ( until 1927 slovak " Kokava "; Hungarian Kokava ) is a municipality in the north of Slovakia with 966 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2011), the Region belongs to Okres Liptovsky Mikulas, a part of the Žilinský and counted for traditional landscape Liptau is.
Geography
The municipality is located in the eastern Liptau, in the basin Podtatranská kotlina, more specifically in the part Liptovská kotlina below the Western Tatras. The town is located on a 40 -meter-high alluvial fan of the westerly flow Bela, east flows the brook Dovalovec. The municipal area is almost 19.9 km ², mostly covered by brown forest soils and since 1965 includes the 25.61 -hectare nature reserve Machy. The center is located at an altitude of 787 m nm and is nine kilometers from Liptovsky Hradok as well as 23 kilometers from Liptovsky Mikulas.
Neighboring municipalities are Pribylina the west and north, Vysoke Tatry ( Cadastral Štrbské Pleso ) in the Northeast, Hybe the east and south and Liptovsky Hradok (district Dovalovo ) in the southwest.
History
The place was first mentioned in writing in 1469 as Maly Dowal as he was then called after the spin-off from the village Dovalovo. Kokava manor belonged to the castle of Liptovsky Hradok, however, did not last long because it was destroyed again in the 1470s and was for a long time only a Meier called Wysnyedowalow. Only after the Wallachian colonization on the occasion of the landlords Balassa the village was re- established in 1588 as mentioned Kokawa alias Nouadowallo and 1596 taxed on the value of a Porta.
The first sacred building was a Simon and St. Jude wooden chapel, which was mentioned in the 17th century and 1825-1830 replaced by a church. 1828 were counted 99 houses and 1,390 inhabitants, the carters, shepherds, woodcutters, Kohler and workers in the local iron hammer were. 1879 burned almost the entire village in a major fire down, with the exception of the two churches and the evangelical school.
Until 1918, belonged to the lying in the county Liptau place the Kingdom of Hungary and came after Czechoslovakia or Slovakia today. During the Second World War, the residents participated in the Slovak National Uprising and there were several guerrilla troops in the vicinity.
Population
According to the 2011 census lived in Liptovská Kokava 974 inhabitants, of whom 940 Slovaks, Czechs, three, two Hungarians and one Moravians and Ukrainians; a resident had a different ethnic group. 26 inhabitants did not respond. 753 inhabitants is known for the Evangelical Church AB, 120 inhabitants to the Roman Catholic Church, three inhabitants of the Greek Catholic Church and in each case a resident of Church of the Brethren, the Baptists and Jehovah's Witnesses; six inhabitants were of a different denomination. 39 residents were non-denominational and 50 inhabitants, the denomination has not been determined.
Results according to the census 2001 (1.090 inhabitants):
After Ethnicity:
- 99.27 % Slovaks
- 0.55% Czechs
- 0.09% of Hungarians
- 0.09% Ukrainians
After Confession:
- 82,11 % Evangelical
- 12.66 % Roman Catholic
- 3.39% no religious affiliation
- 0.92 % no answer
- 0.46% other
- 0.28% Greek Catholic
Structures
- Roman Catholic Simon and St. Jude Church in the classical style from the years 1825-1830
- Protestant church built in the Romanesque Revival style built in 1923, designed by the architect Milan Michal Harminc
Infrastructure and Transport
The basic infrastructure is well developed up to the lack of cable TV network, with existing water and gas mains and sewers with connection to a sewage treatment plant. The municipality operates a kindergarten and a primary school and there is a post office. Liptovská Kokava is a county road from Pribylina or Dovalovo reachable (connected to the national road 537 ); the nearest railway station is located in Liptovsky Hradok in ten kilometers along the railway line Žilina - Košice.