The village first appears in writing in the two Zobor charters of 1111 and 1113 — the property lists of the Benedictine abbey on Zobor hill above Nitra, and among the oldest documents to survive from what is now Slovakia. That is a fact about a document, not about when people arrived; they had been here for centuries already. The church's first stone phase — a nave of about five metres by four, with a tiny rectangular sanctuary — is dated to before the middle of the eleventh century, and the earliest coins found in the graves around it are those of King Salomon (1063–1074) and King Ladislaus I (1077–1095). A church that small was a private one: built by whoever owned the land, for his household and the people who worked it.Prvý raz sa obec spomína v dvoch zoborských listinách z rokov 1111 a 1113 – v súpisoch majetkov benediktínskeho opátstva na Zobore nad Nitrou, ktoré patria k najstarším písomnostiam z územia dnešného Slovenska. To je však údaj o listine, nie o tom, kedy sem prišli ľudia; tí tu boli dávno predtým. Prvá kamenná fáza kostola – loď zhruba päť krát štyri metre s maličkým pravouhlým presbytériom – sa datuje pred polovicu 11. storočia a najstaršie mince nájdené v hroboch okolo neho patria kráľom Šalamúnovi (1063 – 1074) a Ladislavovi I. (1077 – 1095). Takýto malý kostol bol súkromný: postavil ho ten, komu patrila pôda, pre svoju rodinu a pre ľudí, čo na nej robili.
