Obyce

Obyce ( until 1927 slovak " Obice "; German Obitz or Opitz, Hungarian Ebedec ) is a municipality in western Slovakia with 1507 inhabitants ( 31 December 2011), which belongs to the district Okres Zlaté Moravce, a part of the Nitriansky kraj and in traditional landscape Tekov is.

Geography

The community is located at the transition from the hill country Žitavská pahorkatina (part of the Slovak Danube lowland ) in the easternmost mountains Pohronský Inovec. Obyce is drained by the river Žitava. The center is located at an altitude of 248 m nm and is seven kilometers from Zlaté Moravce away.

History

Obyce was first mentioned in 1075 in a charter of the abbey in today's Hronský Beňadik as Ebedec writing. In 1165 the abbey was given to the village; Another longtime owner Graner was the chapter that kept the place from 1565 to 1918. A part belonged since 1504 to the manor castle Hrušov. At the end of the 18th century originated in the village of a paper mill, which worked until 1840, in the 19th century, there was a glass factory and a coal mine (the latter until 1922 and from 1936 to 1949 ). In 1810 the first school was mentioned in 1828 were counted 85 houses and 589 inhabitants.

Until 1918, belonged to the lying in the county bars place the Kingdom of Hungary and was then Czechoslovakia or Slovakia today.

Population

According to the 2011 census lived in Obyce 1,503 inhabitants, of whom 1,471 Slovaks, Czechs four and one Moravians and Russian; a resident had a different ethnic group. 25 inhabitants did not respond. 1,385 residents pleaded with the Roman Catholic Church, the Evangelical Church of the four residents, three residents to the Jehovah's Witnesses and one population to the Baptists and the Orthodox Church; eleven residents were of a different denomination. 48 residents were non-denominational and 50 inhabitants, the denomination is not determined.

Results according to the census 2001 (1.565 inhabitants):

After Ethnicity:

  • 99.30 % Slovaks
  • 0.38% Czechs
  • 0.06 % Poland

After Confession:

  • 95.65 % Roman Catholic
  • 1.73 % no answer
  • 1.73% no religious affiliation
  • 0.32% Evangelical

Structures

  • Chapel in the classical style from the early 19th century
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