Official Name: | Lehnice |
Other Name: | Lég |
Settlement Type: | village |
Pushpin Map: | Slovakia |
Pushpin Label Position: | none |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the village |
Coordinates: | 48.0528°N 17.4556°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Trnava |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Dunajská Streda |
Established Title: | First written mention |
Established Date: | 1239 |
Government Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
Leader Party: | SDKÚ-DS |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Ferenc Szitási |
Area Total Km2: | 25.38[3] |
Elevation M: | 121[4] |
Population Footnotes: | [5] |
Population Total: | 3075[6] |
Population Est: | 2540 |
Pop Est As Of: | 2008 |
Population Density Km2: | 118.95[7] |
Demographics Type1: | Ethnicity |
Demographics1 Title1: | Hungarians |
Demographics1 Info1: | 68.87% |
Demographics1 Title2: | Slovaks |
Demographics1 Info2: | 26.86% |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal Code |
Postal Code: | 930 37 |
Area Code: | +421 31 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 45.93 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 9.80 |
Elevation Ft: | 397 |
Lehnice (Hungarian: Lég, in Hungarian pronounced as /ˈleːɡ/; German: Legendorf) is a village and municipality in the Dunajská Streda District in the Trnava Region of south-west Slovakia.
In Slovak | In Hungarian | Year of attachment | |
---|---|---|---|
Sása | Szász | 1940 | |
Malý Lég | Kislég | 1940 | |
Veľký Lég | Nagylég | 1940 | |
Masníkovo | Előpatony | 1960 | |
Kolónia |
The municipality lies at an altitude of 121 metres and covers an area of 25.338 km2.
In the 9th century, the territory of Lehnice became part of the Kingdom of Hungary. The name of the municipality was first recorded in 1239 by its Hungarian name as Legu. Until the end of World War I, all the present-day component villages of the municipality were part of Hungary and fell within the Somorja district of Pozsony County. After the Austro-Hungarian army disintegrated in November 1918, Czechoslovak troops occupied the area. After the Treaty of Trianon of 1920, the area became officially part of Czechoslovakia. In November 1938, the First Vienna Award granted the area to Hungary and it was held by Hungary until 1945. In 1940, three neighboring villages were unified to form Lég municipality. After Soviet occupation in 1945, Czechoslovak administration returned and the village became officially part of Czechoslovakia in 1947. In 1960, Masníkovo (Előpatony) was also attached to the municipality.
At the 2001 Census the recorded population of the village was 2409 while an end-2008 estimate by the Statistical Office had the villages's population as 2540. As of 2001, 68.87% of its population (1659 residents) were Hungarians while 26.86% (647 residents) were Slovaks. Roman Catholicism is the majority religion of the village, its adherents numbering 87.26% of the total population.
The village is twinned with: