1828, and the revolution of 1848 Nine hundred and eighty-five peopleDeväťstoosemdesiatpäť ľudí

By 1828 there were 136 houses and 985 people — the village had grown by a third in forty years, on land that could not really feed that many. Then in 1848 the Hungarian revolution abolished serfdom, the arrangement under which a peasant family owed labour to its lord in return for the strip it farmed. Freedom without more land, in a place like this, meant going further to look for wages: harvest work down in the lowlands, building work in the towns, and before long the boat to America.Do roku 1828 tu bolo 136 domov a 985 obyvateľov — dedina za štyridsať rokov narástla o tretinu na pôde, ktorá toľko ľudí naozaj neuživila. Roku 1848 potom uhorská revolúcia zrušila poddanstvo, teda poriadok, v ktorom roľnícka rodina dlhovala zemepánovi robotu za to, že mohla obrábať svoj diel. Sloboda bez pôdy navyše znamenala na takomto mieste chodiť za zárobkom ešte ďalej: na žatvu dolu do nížin, na stavby do miest a onedlho aj na loď do Ameriky.