Skalka nad Váhom

Skalka nad Váhom is a municipality in the north- west of Slovakia with 1152 inhabitants ( 31 December 2011) and is located in Okres Trenčín, Trenčín Region of an administrative unit of the.

Geography

The municipality is located in the southwest part of the basin Ilavská kotlina at the confluence of the creek Súčanka that comes from the White Carpathians ago, with the Waag. The nearest towns are Nemšová ( six kilometers ) northeast and Trenčín ( five miles south ). The center is located at an altitude of 233 m nm

History

The church today Skalka nad Váhom was issued in 1974 by the merger of previously independent places scale (Hungarian Vágsziklás ) Skalská Nová Ves ( to 1927 Slovak Nová Ves scale or scale Novejsa; Hungarian Nemesújfalu ) and Ujazd ( to 1946 Slovak Újezd ​​- to 1927 Ujezdov; Hungarian Vágutas ) representing community since parts.

Large parts of the medieval and modern history associated with the original Benedictine monastery in the district of Skalka, which was founded in 1224 by Bishop Nitransky and had intermittently until 1773 inventory.