The village of Hamuliakovo

The beginnings of the village are shrouded in mystery. According to Arnold Ipolyi, a well-known ethnographer and art historian, the Gutt mentioned in documents in 1222 is today's village of Hamuliakovo.

This is also evidenced by the stone that was found in 1870 during the construction of an organ in the church wall. The year 1222 was carved on the stone. Another information about the origin of the village is the year 1244, but proof of its credibility is missing. The most realistic date seems to be 1249, when Petr Guttori's sons agreed to divide the property. In 1284 the name of the village is registered as Gutora, in 1287 as Gwttur. The village was therefore the cradle of the Guthori family.

In documents from the 13th and 14th centuries, 3 similar villages are mentioned: Nagygútor (Great Gutor), Kisgútor (Little Gutor) and Gutorszeg (Gútor-part). The village of Gutorszeg was probably destroyed by the Danube, perhaps during the great flood of 1568. Later, a similar fate befell Little Gutor. Today, their memory is preserved by district names.

Later, the aristocratic residence became a typical peasant village. At the end of the 15th century, the Sydó family appeared here, who owned property in the village until the beginning of the 20th century. For a time, the Kisguthori were also landowners here. In 1519, Ján Földes acquired the property in the village from Bertalan Sydó, but we consider Wolfgang to be the founder of the local family line. In the 17th century, the landowners of the Ampruster family, the Eperjess family, the Kerekes family, and at the end of the century also the Korláth family and the Késmár family were here. At the beginning of the 18th century, František Földes exchanged this property for another with Count Ján Szapáry.

In the 18th century, the new Zeman families of the Naszvady family and the Boronkay family owned the property. The landowners in the 19th century are the families: the Földes family, the Korláth family, the Szapáry family, the Késmár family, the Sidó family, the Naszvady family, the Zichy family and the Szmrtnikov family. Later, the Szalay and Zsitvay families joined them. The village was often plagued by various natural disasters, especially floods in 1679, 1809, 1829 and 1862. The inhabitants of the village were engaged in agriculture, fishing and milling on the Danube, there were up to 22 mills. In the area of the village at the beginning of the 19th century there was an oak and cerium forest, which was the greatest wealth of the village.

It was said that the most beautiful village of Žitný ostrov is Hamuliakovo…

This was claimed by visitors, tourists coming from Bratislava but also from abroad, who decided to spend moments of relaxation in Hamuliakov after a comprehensive visit to Žitný ostrov. They chose our village in order to spend a beautiful summer vacation and a pleasant rest. Beautiful location, charming alleys, rocky but also sandy bays, were created for swimming and fishing. The perfect atmosphere attracted and created a paradise for all travelers. Our first visitor was a nice German-speaking gentleman who visited the village of Hamuliakovo with his charming daughter in the summer of 1865. He said of himself that he was a professor of art education. He argued that in the picturesque village of Hamuliakovo, in addition to swimming in the Danube and boating, he would find space to draw beautiful compositions with a natural theme. He met the most powerful families in the village, who welcomed him in a friendly way. The German-speaking gentleman was extremely intelligent, gallant, and his daughter enchanted everyone with her knowledge of playing the piano. This sympathetic German-speaking gentleman thus learned everything.

After a long vacation, he traveled home, but returned in the spring of 1866. Once, one fine spring day, he had to travel urgently, he didn't say goodbye to anyone. The Prussian war soon broke out. However, the truth surfaced. Our first visitor was not a professor of art education but was a Prussian soldier-major who, at the initiative of the General Staff, developed a detailed map and tactics, based on which he decided for Hamuliakovo, where he could most easily bring the army to Vienna on more shoulders than anywhere else. elsewhere along the main stream. So we did not have the best time with our first visitor, but at least he ensured that we started talking about the village of Hamuliakovo, which even the people of Bratislava did not know before…

World War I claimed 21 lives from the local population. After 1918, Gutor became part of the newly formed Czechoslovakia.

Further floods affected the village in 1928 and 1929. In the years 1938 - 1945, the village was annexed to Hungary. Until 1945, the larger landowners were G. Feigenbaum, J. Nagy, Š. Sághy. II. World War II claimed 20 lives from the local population. After 1945, Gutor became part of Czechoslovakia again. In 1947, as part of the population exchange, part of the local population of Hungarian nationality was forcibly displaced to Hungary and Slovak families from Hungary immigrated to their places.

present

The area of the village lies in the Danubian lowland in the western part of Žitný ostrov on the aggravation wall of the Danube at an altitude of 125 - 130 m. The village is becoming a popular tourist destination, a recreational area for the inhabitants of Bratislava. In Hamuliakov, private business is successfully developing, services are improving. Tourist routes pass through the area of the village, the location on the banks of the Hrušov reservoir of the Gabčíkovo waterworks gives Hamuliakov huge preconditions for further development.