Sečovce
Sečovce is a town in the Trebišov District in the Košice Region of south-eastern Slovakia.
History
The town was first mentioned in year 1255 on the list of king Béla IV of Hungary. In 1494, a Roman Catholic church was built in the Gothic architecture style. Since the 15th century, there was gradual development of trade, including markets with shoemakers, saddlers, potters and furriers. The first post-office was opened in 1783, telegraph office in 1868, telephone office in 1890, train station in 1904, and museum in 1954, which was moved to Trebišov in 1981.Population
It has a population of people.Prior to 1945, the town had a large Jewish population, most of which was deported by the Nazis. Also, prior to 1945, the town consisted primarily of ethnic Hungarians, with a small Slovak minority, but the Hungarians were forceably deported right after the war in order to ethnically cleanse the area and to make room for Slovaks from the north. Those who remained have assimilated and now consider themselves for the most part to be Slovak.
Economy
A few factories reside in and around Sečovce - Palma Agro, Silometal, Sonap, Valter, Lesy SR, and Simkovic-Protektor s.r.o./SPR Retreading SolutionsFamous people
- Štefan Sečovský, evangelical preacher, writer, composer, pedagogue. His original Hungarian name was Galszecsi Istvan.
- Štefan Gáboréczy, evangelical writer
- Andrej Fáy, lawyer, businessman, politician, writer, playwright
- Emery Roth, architect
- Jozef Švagrovský, paleontologist, university professor
- Gejza Šimanský, football player
- Stano Bubán, painter, associate professor, Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava
- Ingrid Timková, actress and director
- Adolf Schwarz, Hungarian-Jewish chess player