Hronská Dúbrava

Contemporaneity

The village of Hronská Dúbrava has an advantageous traffic position on railway junction. From here, you can walk on foot to Močiare, Demiany or up to Budinna Hill. At present, approx. 450 inhabitants are living there.

Hronská Dúbrava is divided into two parts. The upper part of the village is used mostly for relax and as an area of weekend houses. In this part, you can find historical nucleus of the village, such as:old cemetery, small chapel, Slovak National Uprising Monument and many tombs from this time period. On the other hand, the lower part of the village has sporting grounds, including watermen base, available, and it is a centre of watermen activities.

History

The first writen notice about the seat comes of 1338, when the place named as Besereth. The community belonged to Šašov Castle. Later, in 1865, Šašov dominion became a part of another dominion, Revište, and since 1871, the area was in possession of Žarnovica Forest Office. Since 1923, the community became a part of St.Kríž nad Hronom. Later the area was in Kremnica district, and finally, since 1960, Žiar nad Hronom is a new district. In 1665, Dubrava had, together with the other villages, its common Mayor, but, since 1834, the village was led by its independent Mayor.

The population was engaged with agriculture, coal  burning and carting. The people found their job in railway, wood-stores or in quarries. In 1847, there was open a school in upper Dúbrava, but during winter months only, in wooden school building, covered with straw. Since 1885, the education lessons were effected in so called public house. Nevertheless, new school building was built in upper part of Dúbrava since the end of 19th century, where the children visited the lessons till 1912. Anyway, within 1900-1901 completely new school building was constructed, which was in operation till 1918. The school in upper part of the villaged was closed in 1966. In the middle of 1919, Dúbrava was seized with Hungarian army. A couple of days later, Czechoslovak military troops set free the village. However, the community was left by Hungarian railway employees as well as with Hungarian troops. Since 1950, Hronská Dúbrava has its public house, hall with scene, Firemen House, garages and water reservoir.

Text: Denisa Arvajová, hronskabubrava.szm.com

Translation: ing. Jan Jonáš

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