A History of Central Eastern Europe

LYSÁ NAD DUNAJCOM
With a population hovering around
1,200 you wouldn’t think that STARÁ VES’
would have a “suburb” – but it does – or did
– or does. Two kilometers “upriver” (west)
of town, the monks of Červený Kláštor built
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a farm by the river in the early 14 c. The
farm grew into a small community, one that
adopted the name of the farmer-monks
home - Červený kláštor – with a lower-case
k. Perhaps the confusion of having two
places with the exact same name, side-by-
no less, was at least partially responsible for the name change to LYSÁ NAD DUNAJCOM, then
side
KALENBERG (1863) and GOLINBERG (1870) and KAHLENBERG (1892) and MAD’ TARHEGY
(1907) and KALENBERK (1920) and, again, LYSÁ NAD DUNAJCOM (1948). What ever its name, the
hamlet fell under STARÁ VES’ jurisdiction until the late 1800s when it became a village in its own
right. But being a “village in its own right” isn’t as obvious as it should be. None of the census
records consulted made any mention of such a place and, as 5 of those were done in or later than
the late 1800s, we can assume being designated a village does not mean a separate census
enumeration! In 2006 it became the Slovak side of the half of a foot bridge across the Dunajec
River; the Polish half ends in SROMOWCE NIŻNE.
Majere
This village got its start no
later than 1431 when it first
appears in written records. It
was a manor house named
Starý Majer that was built
and owned by the monks of
ČERVENÝ KLÁŠTOR. After the
dissolution of the religious order in 1786 and 1787 it is found as Ó MAJER until 1798.
Repopulated by German settlers from WÜTENBERSKA, the village was renamed VYŠNÉ ŠVÁBY.
From 1863 to 1913 it appears as Ó MAJER again, then VYŠNÉ ŠVÁBY, a brief return to STARÝ
MAJER in 1920, then VYŠNÉ ŠVÁBY once again. Between 1927 and 1948 it was called ALTER-
MEIEREI and ever since that time it has been MAJERE. The 1877 religious enumeration of the
hamlet of 120 residents resulted in a population that was 47% ág (total 56, Toporcz), 43%
Roman Catholic (52, Ófalu) & 10% izraelita (12, Ófalu). (Place of mother church in brackets).
According to a census at the end of the year in 2008 there were 87 residents, an 8% increase over
the 2001 population when 77 residents were living in 30 houses. (Photo next page)
Another set of Nana’s great-grandparents, SIMON HAZAY and MARIA VOJTAS, lived here in the
early 19 th c when JOZEF HAZAY, her grandfather, was born here, most likely in January 1823 as
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he was baptized in SPIŠSKÁ STARÁ VES that year on the 2 of February.
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