It spreads at an altitude of 145 to 303 meters and the Štiavnica stream flows through it. An international road (E77) passes through the village, connecting Budapest with Warsaw. To the south of the village (approx. 5 km) is the famous spa town of Dudince, to the north (approx. 20 km) lies the district town of Krupina. Even further north (approx. 50 km) from the village is the famous town of Zvolen.
A brief history
The oldest traces of settlement of the locality date back to the Late Stone Age. Archaeological finds point to the continuity of settlement from the Hradiště period to the Middle Ages.
The predecessor of today's Carpenter was a settlement that existed in this area during the reign of King St. Štefan, who from 1018 gradually connected the territory of today's Slovakia to the forming Kingdom of Hungary. Originally, the village consisted of two parts, namely Small and Large Carpenters.
Andrej Kmeť, a Catholic priest from Prenčov, explored the village at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The last archaeological research in the village took place in 1991, when the foundations of the defunct Romanesque church were discovered.
The first written mention of the village comes from the 13th century, when in 1279 King Ladislav IV. donated this territory to Demeter of the Hunt family.
Andrej Sládkovič's brother, the poet Karol Braxatoris, also worked as an Evangelical pastor in Hontianske Tesáry. He is buried in the place of the cemetery.
In 1971, the villages of Dvorníky, Šipice and Báčovce joined the village. Since then, they have been performing under the common name of Hontianske Tesáre. However, in the consciousness of people and on traffic signs, all four municipalities still retain an independent identity.
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