Michal na Ostrove

Michal na Ostrove (until 1960 slovak " Svaty Michal "; Hungarian Szentmihályfa ) is a municipality in south-western Slovakia with 920 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2011). It belongs to Okres Dunajská Streda, a part of the Trnavský kraj.

Geography

The municipality is located in the central part of the Great Rye Island, part of the Slovak Danube lowland. The municipal area is flat, with altitudes ranging from 116 m nm N.M. to 121 m and projects like a wedge over a length of nearly twelve miles from a point south of the railway line Bratislava - Komárno almost to the banks of the Little Danube. The center is located at an altitude of 118 m nm and is ten kilometers from Dunajská Streda away.

Neighboring municipalities are Horna Potôň in the west, the east and Orechová Potôň Holice in the south.

History

The town was first mentioned in 1337 as Zenmihal writing and belonged to the following families: Orros, Keméndy ( 1553), Farkas, in the 19th century Batthyány and Pongrácz. 1553 are given in a tax register Porta 12, 1828 were counted 49 houses and 355 inhabitants.

Until 1919 belonged to the county located in the Bratislava city of the Kingdom of Hungary and was then Czechoslovakia or Slovakia today. On the basis of the First Vienna Award, it was 1938-45 again in Hungary.

From 1940 to 1960, the place Čečínska Potôň was part of the community, since it is part of Horna Potôň.

Population

According to the 2011 census lived in Michal na Ostrove 915 inhabitants, of whom 692 Magyars, 175 Slovaks, 14 Roma, two Czechs and each one German and Croatian; three residents were other ethnicity. 115 inhabitants did not know. 715 residents pleaded with the Roman Catholic Church, 47 inhabitants to the Reformed Church, 15 inhabitants to the Evangelical Church AC, three inhabitants of the Greek Catholic Church and a resident of the United Methodist Church. 47 residents were non-denominational and 87 inhabitants, the denomination is not determined.

Results of the census 2001 (711 inhabitants):

After Ethnicity:

  • 89.03 % Magyars
  • 8.16% Slovaks
  • 1.83% Roma
  • 0.42% Czechs
  • 0.14% German

After Confession:

  • 87.48 % Roman Catholic
  • 2.95% no religious affiliation
  • 1.83 % no answer
  • 1.69% Evangelical
  • 0.14% Greek Catholic

Structures

  • 1787 designed Roman Catholic St. Michael's Church from the 14th century, originally gothic classical
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