Obec Igram

Briefly about the history of Igram
Igram lies in the fertile Danube plain near the towns of Trnava, Senec and Modra near the Little Carpathians at an altitude of 148 m. Today, it lies between two important arteries, the railway line and the D1 motorway. The area of the village is flat. It lost its flat character on the Niva and Šúri, there were vineyards that no longer exist today. The area is being considered for the Šarfická road, because the Danube flowed through this part in the past. Until the first third of the last century, groundwater regularly flowed here, so this field was called Mud.
The first written mention of the village is in a document of Bratislava County from 1244, when the village lying by the stream Barzaneh (possibly Barinec) is mentioned under the name Ikrám. The name of the village is derived from the Old Slavic word igrici, which meant musicians, musicians who belonged to Bratislava Castle and settled by the mentioned stream. Another mention of the village is from 1313, it is mentioned in a document of Archbishop Tomas. In 1323, the main county governor of Bratislava County, Count Mikuláš, became the owner of Igram, and from the XV. century, the Zemans of Borš have become long-term owners of Igram. At the beginning of XVI. century, the village was ravaged during the passage of the Spanish mercenary army, which marched against the Turks. In 1553, Count Nyáry's family admits 15 taxable houses here during the portal (tax) census. From 1610, the village was under the administration of the Red Stone Castle. From the middle of the XVII. For centuries, the Erdody family and the Pálffy family stand out as the sole and hereditary owners. At this time, the village has the character of a small peasant settlement headed by an index (mayor) and several subjects and jailers. In addition to small straw-covered houses, there was a small chapel in the village, to which r. In 1861 they added a tower and partially expanded it.

Igram lies on the left side of the Vištuk stream, which flows from Písek near Modra. After Veľký Grob in Tárnocký háj, it empties into the Šifak stream (Šúrsky potok) and together into the Malý Dunaj. In the past, a section up from the school to the lower end to Pažiť was built in the village. From the school to the stream, houses of poor jailers grew up - Chalupy. Further behind the stream, to the right of today's football field, stood a lonely house of a bricklayer. In the past, the brickyard of the Chajai landowner Max Popper stood there. In the middle of the village is Ulička. (It was also possible to sled there, also from the banks above the playground.) In In 1960, Ulička was brought an average of 2 m higher and a concrete bridge over the stream was built. At the lower end of Pažit by the stream, 7 Roma families settled. Later, the Igram people built houses at the upper end behind the church and opposite in Prosnisko, also at the lower end along the road towards Čataj, on Pažit and further along the stream on the Kapusnice plot. There is a cemetery next to the church and on the other side of the road the school is built in 1904. The extension of the third classroom and also the whole reconstruction of the school took place in 1934. She also had a nice garden. Since In 1949, a kindergarten was placed in one of the classes. In front of the church stood a monument to the fallen in World War I, later with a plaque of the fallen in the SNP. After the reconstruction and modifications of the cemetery in the eighties, it was moved to the cemetery. Of the older buildings in the Program, it is worth mentioning František Hlavatý, no. 39, in which a notary was placed behind Austria-Hungary. The manor house was also the house of Jozef Hinca no. 168 with arched clamps. There was a stone in the courtyard on which the subjects were intertwined. Another was the house of Victoria and Štefan Chobotov no. 151 and 152, where there was also hospitality. In 1922, the building of the food cooperative no. 149. The thatched roofs of houses were usually replaced after fires, the longest houses being covered with straw in Chalupy.

Interestingly, the last thatched roof on the main street was next to the school at the Červenek house and in In 1960, the rest of Štefan Daniš's house was removed at the lower end.
After the liberation after II. During World War II, there were major changes in housing, especially in terms of culture and housing hygiene. Dark chambers, ovens, painted hearths, open chimneys and with them the ornaments that adorned the walls of ovens and stoves disappear. Wooden fogashes with flower plates and jugs have disappeared from the rooms. No one needed them anymore. Painted wooden chests also disappeared from the dwellings, and with them the beautiful Trnava costumes. Hemp swabs, men's hemp gates, and shirts that were dressed for harvesting hot days may have been preserved here and there. Today, the costume is no longer visible on the street, only on festive occasions and folklore festivals.

There are still many chapters that belong to the history of Igram, which should be gradually opened. As people lived here in multi-generational families, as they worked in the fields, in services, as they traveled, they went out into the world for a better life. It is necessary to talk about the simplicity and modesty of life, the study of one family member was paid for by everyone else with their shovels. A very important article is the history of the school and the teachers who educated and educated Igram children in it for more than a century and tried to lift the culture in the village selflessly, without reward. I am convinced that the already mentioned History of School would be an engaging and instructive reading for every inhabitant today. We cannot forget the theaters that have been rehearsing here since 1921 in the cultural and educational association Omladina (founded by our co-parent student Jakub Tešovič) and later especially by the local teachers Mr. and Mrs. Hollí. The association also included a library, which already had about 300 volumes at that time. In 1924, wind music was created in Igram, which was first conducted by Mr. Pätoprstý from Šveinsbach - Viničný and then taken over by Mr. Ondrej Orlický. The focus of Sokol's activities was football. Football began to be played here in an organized way as early as 1925, when it was brought to the village by student František Brunovský and other enthusiasts joined it. We will certainly be interested in where people met here in the past, where and how, in addition to hard work, they also had fun, how they dressed. How they knew how to feed their family, what they waved on a plate. How they raised children in large and mostly poor families. As it used to be at school. As they earned their crowns, they worked in the fields on remote lands, early in the morning, and the whole family together. How and where the children played, what toys they had. How the people rejoiced then, but how sad they were, how they kept the feasts.

Our area was electrified in 1928, but in Igram the village allowed the electricity to be introduced only 4 years later. The first public telephone booth was located in the school building. The first bus connection was made in 1938 from Veľký Grob to Báhoň. JRD III. type originated in the Program on September 27, 1952, with all the sorrows and pains associated with it.
The last entry in the History of Schools is from 1955 and in the Chronicle from 1967. In 1968, mine died. We may find out in time who wrote the introductory letters to the History of Schools.
History is always contradictory. They need time and wise people to judge and evaluate them correctly. They should be a lesson for future generations to take good for themselves and avoid evil in the future.

We are people, we make mistakes. We do not plan them, but they are lawful in the life of each of us. Above all, however, every person in his life has always sought his own happiness and the happiness of those he loves whom God has entrusted to his care. So did those who lovingly cultivated this piece of precious land in the distant past, as did our fathers and their parents. Let's try to continue their efforts. Those who preceded us have been able to do so many simple, beautiful and pure things in the sweat of their faces with their bare hands. Let's not show them! While there is still time ... And let's keep them!