c. 1233 · 1241 · the 13th century A church already standing when the Mongols cameKostol, ktorý tu stál už pred Mongolmi

The parish church of St Michael the Archangel is Romanesque and is dated to about 1233, so it was already standing when the Mongol army broke into the Kingdom of Hungary in 1241. What the Mongols did in this corner of Hont is not recorded, and no honest account can fill that gap in. What is recorded is the answer that followed all over the kingdom: Béla IV pushed his lords to build in stone rather than timber, and landlords brought in settlers to refill emptied land. German colonists reached this area during the thirteenth century, and it is from them that the German name of the village comes.Farský Kostol svätého Michala archanjela je románsky a datuje sa asi do roku 1233 — stál teda už vtedy, keď roku 1241 vpadli do Uhorska Mongoli. Čo sa v tomto kúte Hontu vtedy dialo, pramene nehovoria — a nikto to za ne nesmie domýšľať. Zaznamenaná je až odpoveď, ktorá prišla po vpáde a platila v celej krajine: Belo IV. tlačil pánov, aby stavali z kameňa namiesto dreva, a zemepáni pozývali osadníkov, aby zaľudnili vyprázdnenú pôdu. Do tohto kraja prišli v 13. storočí nemeckí kolonisti a práve po nich má obec svoje nemecké meno.