1867–1914 Austria-Hungary, and the church that carried the languageRakúsko-Uhorsko a kostol, ktorý niesol jazyk

After 1867 the Kingdom of Hungary ran its own internal affairs inside the monarchy, and its governments pushed hard to make Hungarian the language of every school and office. The three Slovak grammar schools were closed in 1874 and 1875, and the cultural society Matica slovenská with them; in that climate the Lutheran parish was one of the few places where Slovak was still preached, sung and written down every single week. Hronsek itself was a small farming village — a census in 1828 had counted 67 houses and 508 people — with almost no work beyond the fields. In the decades before 1914 a great many families from villages like this one left central Slovakia for America.Po roku 1867 si Uhorsko spravovalo vnútorné veci samo a jeho vlády tvrdo presadzovali, aby sa maďarčina stala jazykom každej školy a každého úradu. V rokoch 1874 a 1875 zatvorili tri slovenské gymnáziá a spolu s nimi aj Maticu slovenskú; v takomto ovzduší bola evanjelická fara jedným z mála miest, kde sa po slovensky každý týždeň kázalo, spievalo a písalo. Samotný Hronsek bol malou roľníckou dedinou — súpis z roku 1828 tu napočítal 67 domov a 508 ľudí — a práce mimo poľa takmer nebolo. V desaťročiach pred rokom 1914 odišlo z dedín, ako je táto, do Ameriky veľmi veľa rodín.