UnÃn, Skalica District
Unín ( Unin German, Hungarian Nagyúny - to 1907 Unin ) is a municipality in western Slovakia with 1221 inhabitants ( 31 December 2011), the Region belongs to Okres Skalica, a circle of Trnavský and is located in the traditional landscape Zahorie.
Geography
The municipality is located in the hill country Chvojnická pahorkatina off the main roads. The 22.7 km ² large municipality is mostly covered by the brown soil and brown forest soils and is used for intensive agriculture. The altitude varies from 215 m N.M. to 434 m N.M. ( Mountain Zámčisko ). The center is located at an altitude of 269 m nm and is 12 kilometers from Holic and 18 kilometers from Skalica away.
History
On the mountain Zámčisko was in the late Bronze Age ruins of a fort, which of the peoples of the Maďarovce culture, the burial mounds and other culture until the time of Great Moravian Empire in the 9th century.
Unín itself was mentioned in writing in a Donationsurkunde as Wny, as the estate was given to Holič Stibor of Stiborice for the first time in 1392. 1439 Unín was plundered by the Hussites, was still in the Middle Ages a heavily inhabited village. In 1554 it came to dividing the Herrschaftsguts between families and Bakics Czoborové, the second had the village. 1663 a Turkish army plundered the village.
1828 are listed 213 houses and 1,242 inhabitants. The inhabitants were engaged in agriculture, viticulture and sheep farming. The Emperor Franz Joseph I visited Unín in 1902 as part of a military exercise allungarischen.
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 (1.164 inhabitants):
After Ethnicity:
- 99.05% Slovaks
- 0.54 % Czechs
- 0.34% Ukrainians
After Confession:
- 92.44 % Roman Catholic
- 5.24% no religious affiliation
- 1.72 % no answer
- 0.34 % Orthodox
Structures
- Roman Catholic church of the 14th century, designed baroque today
- Chapel from 1793