Pernek

Pernek ( Bäreneck German, Hungarian Pernek ) is a municipality in Okres Malacky within the Bratislavský kraj in Slovakia.

Geography

The place is located in the Záhorská nížina ( Zahorie lowlands ) on the eastern slope of the Little Carpathians in the landscape Zahorie ( Marchauen ). The boundaries of the nature reserve Small Carpathians lie just outside the community. Pernek located at the crossroads National Roads Pezinok - Malacky and Lozorno - Jablonica and 13 km from Malacky, 20 km from Pezinok and 35 km from Bratislava.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1394 as Perneck writing and first belonged to the Count of St. Georgen and Bösing, since the 16th century the estate of Castle bladder stone. Later owners were among the families Fugger, Balassa and Palffy. Since the 17th century there were gold and silver, until later in the 1920s, then pyrite and antimony mining in the municipality.