after 1638 Cleared out of Detva, one farm at a timeVyklčované z Detvy, samota po samote

When the Vígľaš estate settled Detva in 1638, the families it put there did not stay in one place. Each new household went further up the valley, felled and burned a patch of forest and built a single farmstead on it, with its fields and hay meadows around it: a laz. Groups of these farms took names, and the names became hamlets. Hriňová is what that process produced at the top of the Slatina valley — dozens of scattered settlements and no real centre at all, every one of them still legally part of Detva and still owing dues to the estate.Keď vígľašské panstvo v roku 1638 osídlilo Detvu, rodiny, ktoré tam usadilo, nezostali na jednom mieste. Každá nová domácnosť išla vyššie do doliny, vyrúbala a vypálila kus lesa a postavila na ňom samotu s poľami a lúkami okolo: laz. Skupiny takýchto usadlostí dostali mená a z mien sa stali osady. Hriňová je to, čo tento proces vytvoril na konci slatinskej doliny — desiatky roztrúsených osád a nijaké skutočné centrum, a všetko to bolo právne stále súčasťou Detvy a stále to platilo panstvu.