1948–1989 Nationalised, collectivised, and still in useZnárodnené, združstevnené — a stále v používaní

After February 1948 the communist state put the fields into a farming cooperative, took the manor houses from their owners, and kept steady pressure on the churches: clergy had to be approved by the state, church schools were closed, and going to church quietly counted against you at work and at school. The Lutheran congregation at Hronsek went on meeting in its wooden church anyway, and that is the main reason the building was maintained at all — an empty monument decays, a used one gets its roof mended. The village turned into a commuter settlement: most working people took the bus or the train into Zvolen or Banská Bystrica and came home in the evening.Po februári 1948 dal komunistický štát polia do družstva, kaštiele ich majiteľom odobral a na cirkvi tlačil vytrvalo: duchovných musel schvaľovať štát, cirkevné školy zatvorili a chodenie do kostola sa človeku ticho pripomínalo v práci aj v škole. Evanjelický zbor v Hronseku sa vo svojom drevenom kostole schádzal ďalej, a to je hlavný dôvod, prečo sa stavba vôbec udržiavala — prázdna pamiatka chátra, používaná dostane opravenú strechu. Z obce sa medzitým stalo sídlo, odkiaľ sa dochádza: väčšina pracujúcich sadala na autobus alebo na vlak do Zvolena či Banskej Bystrice a domov sa vracala večer.