Czechoslovakia was declared in 1918, and the Morava, until then an ordinary river inside one monarchy, became a state frontier. The ferry across to Drösing on the Austrian bank lost most of its purpose — a Habán family, the Tittels, had bought it from Count Štefan Wenckheim in that same year, and it kept running, but free crossing was over. Teaching in the schools switched to Slovak; a burgher school opened in 1922 in rented rooms and got its own building near the manor in 1928–29, and the name of the village settled into the form it has today. Anton Štefánek, born here, became a Czechoslovak politician and the founder of Slovak sociology. In 1931 Count Anton Wenckheim sold the manor and its park to the Ursuline sisters of Bratislava, and his family's long tenure here ended.Roku 1918 vzniklo Československo a z Moravy, ktorá dovtedy tiekla vnútri jednej monarchie, sa stala štátna hranica. Prievoz do rakúskeho Drösingu tým stratil väčšinu zmyslu — habánska rodina Tittelovcov ho práve v tom roku odkúpila od grófa Štefana Wenckheima a ešte premával, ale voľné prechádzanie sa skončilo. V školách sa začalo učiť po slovensky, roku 1922 otvorili meštianku v prenajatých izbách a v rokoch 1928 – 1929 dostala vlastnú budovu pri kaštieli; vtedy sa ustálil aj dnešný názov obce. Anton Štefánek, rodák z Levár, sa stal československým politikom a zakladateľom slovenskej sociológie. Roku 1931 predal gróf Anton Wenckheim kaštieľ aj s parkom bratislavským uršulínkam a dlhé panstvo jeho rodiny sa tu skončilo.
