| Hlohovec | |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Trnava |
| Subdivision Type3: | District |
| Subdivision Name3: | Hlohovec |
| Pushpin Map: | Slovakia Trnava Region#Slovakia |
| Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Hlohovec in the Trnava Region |
| Coordinates: | 48.4333°N 17.8033°W |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Ivan Baranovič |
| Established Title: | First mentioned |
| Established Date: | 1113 |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 64.19 |
| Elevation M: | 146[2] |
| Elevation Ft: | 479 |
| Population Footnotes: | [3] |
| Population Total: | 19992 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset1: | +1 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 920 01 |
| Area Code: | +421 33 |
| Blank Name: | Car plate |
| Blank Info: | HC |
| Website: | www.hlohovec.sk |
| Area Note: | |
Hlohovec (German: Freistad(l) an der Waag, Hungarian Galgóc), is a town in southwestern Slovakia, with a population of 21,508.
The name comes from *Glogovec, the Old Slavic name for a place densely overgrown by hawthorn. The Hungarian form Galgóc was adopted before a phonological change g > h in Slovak.[4]
The first written evidence of its existence is from 1113, when a town with the name Galgocz was mentioned in the so-called Second Zobor Document. In 1362 Hlohovec obtained town privileges. Ottoman troops captured city and annexed it to the sanjak of Uyvar as the Holok eyalet in 1663. Austrian troops retook it in 1664.
The dominant building is a Renaissance-Baroque castle built in 1720. The castle is built on the place of a pre-existing Slavic settlement and a medieval castle. In the castle area is the Empire theatre built in 1802, a riding school from the 18th century, and a Baroque garden pavilion.
In the middle of St. Michael Square stands the Gothic church of St. Michael with its highly decorated portal. Next to the church is the Chapel of Saint Anna from the 18th century. In the northern border of the central part of the town is the Franciscan church and monastery built in 1492. Part of the monastery premises nowadays occupies the Museum of National History and Geography.
The most visited and beautiful natural part of town is the castle park with its lake, French terraces, and rare wood-species, especially old sycamore trees.
According to the 1910 census the town had 7749 inhabitants: 5645 Slovaks, 1401 Hungarians and 667 Germans, 83.6% of the people were Roman Catholic, 13.7% Jewish and 2.1% Lutheran.According to the 2001 census, the town had 23,729 inhabitants. 97.85% of inhabitants were Slovaks, 0.72% Roma and 0.63% Czechs.[5] The religious make-up was 79.58% Roman Catholics, 14.85% people with no religious affiliation and 2.44% Lutherans.[5]
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Slovakia.
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Hranice, Czech RepublicThe records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Bratislava, Nitra, Slovakia"