Paňa

Paňa (in hungarian Nemespann) is a village and municipality in the Nitra District in western central Slovakia, in the Nitra Region.[1]

Paňa
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Nitra district in the Nitra region
First mentioned1239
Government
 • MayorMilan Korenči
Websitewww.pana.ocu.sk/

Nature
  • The brook at its source
  • The brook at Žigárd
  • The Saint Urban chapel's ruin and a well
  • Stork chicks

There was storks nest in the village, but in recent years it wasn't used.

History

In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1239 (in form Poonh).[2] After the mongolian invasion of Hungarian Kingdom in 1241 the next preserved written mention is from year 1285. From preserved written sources it's clear that the village was property of the archdiocese of Esztergom. The village was one of the villages of Sedes de Verebel et Sancti Georgii, where lived church nobility serving the archibishop.

The noblemen from the village also fought in the Battle of Párkány as part of hungarian forces (in banderium of archibishop) against the turkish forces.[3] The list of fallen heroes from Paňa is maybe the first detailed list of fallen men from one place in history of Central Europe.

The south part of village was known as Žigárd. The first preserved historical mention is older than of the village, it's from 1156 and 1232. In later period it was used as vineyard, but in 1970's it was destroyed. The Chapel of Saint Urban from 1862/1863 was also destroyed.

The Church of All Saints was built in 1722. The tower is from 1847. The church was damaged by earthquake at Kúty in 1906. The new inner painting of the building is from 1932. The frescoes are work of hungarian painter Edmund (Ödön) Massányi. The Rieger organ is from 1933. The side altars are maybe older than the church itself.

Geography

The village lies at an altitude of 182 metres and covers an area of 11.265 km2 (4.349 sq mi). It has a population of about 315 people.

Ethnicity

In 1919 czechoslovak census from 730 people 486 Hungarian, 220 Slovak, 18 German lived in Paňa.

The jewish community in the village was never bigger than 25 people in the village until their deportation to concentration camps in the second world war.

In the last census in 2011 there was from 347 people 315 Slovak, 15 Hungarian, 2 Czech, 2 Bulgarian, 1 Moravian and 12 with unknown ethnicity.

People
  • Károly Kossovich lawyer and member of MTA, Tivadar Szentkereszty teacher and ethnographer, László Czobor vicecomes and representative and others had family relationship with the village.
  • István Zsittnyan hungarian teacher, cultural organizator teached her.
  • Alajos Bogyó actor, opera singer and director was born here in 1834.
  • Gyula Agárdy piarist teacher, caricaturist was born here in 1895.
  • Jenő Csiffáry teacher and lifesaver was born here in 1895.
  • Sándor Csuthy mayor and lifesaver was born here in 1900.
  • Ľudovít Vaškovič czechoslovak deputy minister of finance was born here in 1919.
  • László Varsányi teacher was born here in 1921.

References
  1. http://en.e-obce.sk/obec/pana/pana.html
  2. „...et nostro quasdam terras seu possessiones nostras cum suis servitoribus condicionariis, retiferis scilicet et falconariis perpetuo et irrevocabiliter archiepiscopo et archiepiscopatui Strigoniensi, videlicet Poonh iuxta villam Chethen in comitatu Nitriensi...” (DLDF 248088 p. 11 transcript from 1465; 248089 p. 9; 25025; Prímási Levéltár, AR A. n. 17; Knauz, N. 1874: Monumenta ecclesiae Strigoniensis I, 329; Szentpétery, I.-Borsa, I.: Az Árpád-házi királyok okleveleinek kritikai jegyzéke I/2. Budapest, 1927/1987, 201-202 No. 660; Marsina, R. (Ed.) 1987: Codex diplomaticus et epistolaris Slovaciae II. Bratislavae, 40/ No. 55: 35-37; Györffy, Gy. 1998: Az Árpád-kori Magyarország történeti földrajza IV. Budapest, 443; Kis, P. 2004: A királyi szolgálónépi szervezetek. Doktori disszertáció, Szegedi Tudományegyetem, 96; Prokopp, Gy. 1966: Az esztergomi prímási levéltár XV. századi leltára, Levéltári Közlemények 37, 133 No. 175 Pon); Maslíková 2013, 75; Keresteš 2015, 40.
  3. ŠA Ivanka pri Nitre, fond SAP, Residua Fragmenta); 2009 Családban marad I/1, 13 Archived 2013-12-11 at the Wayback Machine; Trubíni-Lieskovský 2019, 106


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