1280 · 1286 · 1492 Vasych, and a church of stoneVasych a kamenný kostol

The village is first named in a document of 1280, written Vasych; later hands write Wazych (1286), Z Wascze (1480), Wasewcz (1492) and Wažece (1773). In German it was Waagsdorf, the village on the Váh, and in Hungarian Vázsec. The Roman Catholic church is early Gothic and dates from the second half of the thirteenth century, which makes the building older than the first surviving mention of the village around it — a good reminder that a first mention dates a document, not a place. Bohumír's descendants split into three noble families, the Szentiványi, the Szmrecsányi and the Bán, and Važec belonged to all three at once, so the village had three landlords rather than one.Obec sa prvý raz spomína v listine z roku 1280 ako Vasych; neskoršie zápisy znejú Wazych (1286), Z Wascze (1480), Wasewcz (1492) či Wažece (1773). Po nemecky sa volala Waagsdorf, dedina na Váhu, po maďarsky Vázsec. Rímskokatolícky kostol je ranogotický a pochádza z druhej polovice 13. storočia — je teda starší než prvá zachovaná zmienka o dedine okolo neho, čo dobre pripomína, že prvá zmienka datuje listinu, nie obec. Bohumírovi potomkovia sa rozdelili na tri rody, Szentiványiovcov, Szmrecsányiovcov a Bánovcov, a Važec patril všetkým trom naraz — mal teda troch zemepánov, nie jedného.