Kolárovo

The town of Kolárovo is located in the Podunajská nížina (Danubian Lowland) at the confluence of the Váh and Little Danube Rivers.

The town comprises six neighborhoods: center, Částa (Császta), Kráľka (Királyrét), Veľký Ostrov (Nagysziget), Örtény and Pačérok (Pacsérok).

According to a local tradition, the surrounding area was populated by Jasz people from the Tisza river regions during the Árpád dynasty, which ruled the Kingdom of Hungary from 1000 to 1301.

In 1311, Chellus, an armiger of Matthew III Csák, destroyed the villages of Guta, Nesvady a Zemné with his horde.

In the past, the "Frog Castle" (Hungarian: Békavár; Slovak: Žabí hrad) stood on the land of the village.

After the Battle of Mohács, the inhabitants of the two villages, being afraid of the Turks, moved to a safer place on the right bank of the Little Danube, to the Žitný ostrov, where present-day Kolárovo is situated.

At this time, Great Guta had already been destroyed together with its old church, although the village had partially been protected by embankments which were a part of the fortress system of Kolárovo.

Between 1848 and 1849 at the time of national-liberating fights, the retreating Austrian troops fired on the town after the battles they had won at Pered (now:Tešedíkovo) and Žihrác.

[citation needed] The renaming was carried out against the will of the town's population and as part of suppressing the Hungarian ethnicity in Slovakia.

In comparison with the large fortresses in Nové Zámky and Komárom, it has always played a less important role in the town's history.

After the battle of Mohács t the beginning of Ottoman Turkish occupation the fortress was quickly repaired by the local captain Gregor Martonosi Pesthényi in 1527, to protect it from the approaching army of John Zápolya, supported by Turks.

At the time when Gabriel Bethlen was conquering the fortress in Komárno, local Walloon and French soldiers escaped.

In the spring of 1707 at the time of the Rákóczi's War for Independence, Count Guido Starhemberg performed the fortification worth 6090 forints with the help of the army engineer Fischer.

Each sports club, including football, handball, judo, wrestling, cycling, karate, table tennis, Gut-gym, water tourism, pigeon breeders, cynologic - budgets independently.

The budget of individual sports clubs consists of financial aid from the Town of Kolárovo after being approved by the Municipal Parliament, contributions acquired from sponsors, various subsidies, tickets, membership fees etc.

The statue of St Valentine is a work of folk art dating back to 1835 and was placed in front of the market entrance.

The memorial of the people taken to the concentration camps in Dachau and Schonberg is the work of János Reicher and constructor István Lukačovič.

The statue of a girl with a bucket situated in the area of the Slovak Primary School is the work of the sculptor J. V. Huck.

The houses made from extruded bricks with a walled gable under the thatched roof date back to 19th century.

Administration of relics in Komárno in 1980 initialised the main idea to build up at least one floating mill as an exhibit for educational and museum function.

It was built as part of a cultural monument - Shipboard mill - in an area with typical meadow forest fauna and flora.

Memorial to those inhabitants of Kolárovo who perished at Dachau and Schönberg concentration camps during World War II .
Ship mill in Kolárovo.