Nižná, Piešťany District
Nižná ( until 1927 slovak " Nižná "; Hungarian Nézsnafalva - to 1907 Nizsna ) a municipality in western Slovakia with 529 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2011), the Region belongs to Okres Piešťany, part of Trnavský.
Geography
The municipality is located in the hill country Trnavská pahorkatina near the Little Carpathians. Through the town of Bach Vitek, which flows into the Dudváh in the neighboring Veľké Kostoľany flows. Outside the village, 8 km ² large municipality is dominated by agriculture and borders the following municipalities: Dolny Lopašov in the northeast, Veľké Kostoľany the southeast, Radošovce in the south, the west and Kátlovce Chtelnica in the northwest. The center is located at an altitude of 183 m nm and 21 miles from Trnava and 24 kilometers away from Piešťany.
History
Unlike other places in the area Nižná was mentioned relatively late and indeed in 1532 as Nysnia. Probably the place was a spin-off from the municipalities of Chtelnica and Veľké Kostoľany to an unspecified date, however, speaks a tax register of 1452 via a place called Nižná Ves, which is possibly identical with the village Nižná. The first known landowner came from the family Onory.
After the Turkish wars in the 17th century Nižná was devastated and the family Onory died in 1688 from. The Count Kristof Erdődy acquired the site of the royal chamber for 10,000 florins and incorporated it into the estate of Castle Guttenstein. 1828 were recorded in Nižná 64 houses and 443 inhabitants.
Until 1918, belonged to the lying in the county Neutra place the Kingdom of Hungary and came after Czechoslovakia and Slovakia today.
Population
Results according to the census 2001 (503 inhabitants):
After Ethnicity:
- 98.61 % Slovaks
- 0.20% Czechs
After Confession:
- 93.04 % Roman Catholic
- 3.98 % no answer
- 1.79% no religious affiliation
Structures
- Roman Catholic Church of St. Stephen in 1682
- Bell tower from 1788