The village of Kráľová pri Senci

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MUNICIPALITY
The village is located about 25 km east of Bratislava and is spread on both banks of the river Čierna voda. The village in its present form was created by merging the two villages Krmeš and Kráľová in 1945. The oldest records and archaeological research confirm the ancient origin of the site. Already on the threshold of the 1st millennium, the area of the village was inhabited by ancient Germans, and archaeologists locate the center of the Marobud Empire here. Slavic settlement is demonstrably documented here, especially from the period of the Great Moravian Empire, when next to the village Kráľová stretched an important medieval road from Bratislava to Nitra. The village of Kráľová, called "Villa regia" in the Middle Ages, ie the royal village, was the property of the Hungarian kings and the village of Krmeš has been the economic church property of the Bratislava Chapter since the early Middle Ages. Already in 1421, according to the sweeping document on the delimitation of district boundaries in the village of Kráľová, there was a hunting lodge of King Sigismund of Luxembourg , where
King Matej Korvín also liked to go hunting. In the 17th century, the villages of Krmeš and Kráľová gradually became the property of the aristocratic Pálffy family, who built a model economic and agricultural enterprise here during the two centuries of Sigismund of Luxembourg. In the years 1712 - 15, the local manor house was rebuilt in the Baroque style and its beauty was accentuated by an extensive French garden and an English park , which was connected by a hitherto standing Baroque garden bridge on the edge of the village. After the death of the last owner of the royal estate and the local manor house, Ján in 1908, the property of the royal estate gradually devastated and finally in the years 1940-45 it was completely reduced. Only the manor chapel remained, which was bought from the state by the citizens of Kraľová and the baroque bridge, which is currently under reconstruction. A part of the village is also the Beekeeping Open-Air Museum - a museum of beekeeping, which as a beekeeping school and the property of the Slovak Association of Beekeepers grew in the cadastre of the village in the years 1932-33.

1245 The historical settlement of Krmeš dates back to prehistoric times (the period until the appearance of the first written documents) and we have archeologically documented the settlement of the Slavic and Great Moravian epochs. The first written names of the village are preserved from the High Middle Ages. In a document from 1245 , the oldest name of the village Krmeš has been preserved as the property of the Bratislava chapter Diaki (Dijaki, Dyaki) alias Kermesd. In later periods, other modifications of this name appear, such as Körmesd, Kurmusd, Pap Körmösd, Kermežd, to the local name Kermeš and the name of the village from the 20th century - Krmeš. The nomenclature of Kráľová begins to appear in written sources in the 14th century. Near the villages of Kráľová and Krmeš, there were also the now defunct settlements of Villa Leopoldi (Leopolda settlement) and Bothszegh (Botseg, Bosek). The very naming of the village of Krmeš originated primarily from the naming of the property of the church administration. This two-syllable word is based on the Old Slavic word mežda (mezza, khotár). According to the determination of the determination and demarcation of the district boundaries, the demarcation of the property was carried out in the form of a circle. By narrowing the word kruhmežda, the proper names Kruhmežd, Kermežd, Krmeš were gradually developed. The name Diy is linked to the word student - pupil. Such a name resulted from the determination of the property of the Bratislava chapter for the upbringing of the priestly youth, ie from the delimitation of the property from which the ecclesiastical school or some other ecclesiastical institution of the chapter was maintained.

1595 The first building beginnings of Krmeš can be found at the crossroads in the direction from Kráľová pri Senci to Senec, at the cross, which still symbolizes the site of the chapel, which was the center of the former village and stood until 1700, when Archbishop Leopold Kollonich had its rums demolished. The complete end of Krmeš in the area of the intersection of roads in the direction of Senec was marked by Turkish raids in 1663, which this year burned down the villages of Kráľová, Jánovce, Borša and in addition to the farm buildings, hermitage and chapel of old Krmeš. Of the demolished chapel and the whole of Krmeš, only the bell of the chapel remains, which is currently located in the Krmeš chapel of the "Divine Heart". To today's district borders and municipal buildings on the banks of the Black Water, Nicholas XIII. Pálffy Opposite the village of Kráľová, Krmeš moved at the very end of the 16th century, when the village was bought by one of the important representatives of the Pálffy family, Mikuláš. With the establishment of a new village, the settlement of Krmeš began to gradually abandon at the crossroads and completely disappeared during the Turkish wars and battles, as did the neighboring settlement of Bosek (Botszegh). From December 3, 1595, the newly founded village of Krmeš already belonged to secular landowners from the Pálffy family (until 1918). Mikuláš Pálffy bought it from the Bratislava chapter, which he named as the former church property of Pap Kermesd (Abbot of Krmeš). Probably the death of Mikuláš Pálffy and the subsequent inheritance proceedings caused that in 1600 part of the village of Krmeš became the property of Count Maximilian Colored Mansfeld. Four water mills were placed on Čierna voda, which leased the estate. The land register also mentions a large manor garden, an apple orchard, an apiary and three fishing grounds.