The village of Bajany

The first written record of the village of Bajany is known in a document from 1361 concerning the occupation of the village of Vysoká, whose property was adjacent to the Bojan district. It follows from the content of the document that the local settlement existed before 1361 and it included territorial property to a stable extent. The developed village, which belonged to the estate of the Nevická - Užhorod castle, is mentioned in 1370.
The village of Bajany lies in the eastern part of the East Slovak lowland on a sedimentary ramp on the left bank of the river Uh at an altitude of about 107 m. It borders the villages of Lekárovce, Pavlovce nad Uhom, Vysoká nad Uhom and Maťovské Vojkovce. Until the middle of the 20th century, the village had the permanent name Bajánháza, Bajánház, and since then Bajany.
The origin of the village can be traced to a linguistic interpretation of the name Bajánháza, which has been used in the official Hungarian environment since the 14th century. Part - haza testifies that it was a peasant settlement, while the name Bajan or Bojan testifies that the peasant was of Slovak origin. The literal translation of the name of the village can be Bajanov's home.
We assume the establishment of the Zeman Bojana settlement in the 13th or in the first half of the 14th century. It was built on the property of the older Mirkoviec. Undoubtedly, this is evidenced by its unique name from 1439, composed of a name in the sense of Malá Mirkovec in an identifying relationship with the name Bojan. The village and the adjacent territorial property belonged in the 14th and 16th centuries to the peasants who lived there and used the name of the village in the adjunct.
In the 14th century, peasant households certainly farmed on the territory of our village, which later became impoverished or moved out. In the 15th and 16th centuries there were no more peasants. The land was occupied by landowners and assisted in its management by local jailers. In r. In 1599 there were 4 to 5 inhabited serf / želiarských / houses in the settlement and probably also one - two manors of peasants.
At the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, Bajanhaza was a small village with a poor serf and peasant population. Zemans also lived here in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is remarkable that in 1715 there were 8 peasant households here, but in 1720 there was no serf household in the settlement. In 1828, the village had 59 houses and 424 inhabitants.
In the 19th century, the local property was owned by the KOROSKÉNYI and BERZEVICZY family. The owner of the land from the current house number 26 to the house number 31 was a peasant Koroskényi, who owned two hunts in our area and was engaged in agriculture and cattle breeding.
From this period, the manor house, which belonged to the Berzeviczy family, has been preserved to this day. Today it is the property of the Ujlaki family. In the courtyard of the manor, as a silent witness to times past, grows a 110 - year - old linden tree, which is protected by law. In front of the Berzeviczy family, a peasant of Tabóda Pál, the original owner of the estate, used to live on the land of the manor. We can also mention the names of other peasants who own property in our area:
Košut Tamáš, Orosová Rozália, Bernát Žigmond, Danč Ištván, Felfoldy Daniel. The owners of the land were only Pihulič Gyorgy and Hudák Ján, residents of the village Bajany. Later, new settlers revived the village and undoubtedly built a wooden Calvinist church on the initiative of the Zemans. At that time, Bajanhaza was already a Hungarian village with a Hungarian and Ruthenian name.
The inhabitants of that time were mainly engaged in agriculture and weaving. Even on a seal from the beginning of the 19th century, a horse is engraved on the arm in the middle of the seal field. This symbol indirectly and yet in many ways refers to local agriculture. The municipality expresses that he uses horses for agricultural work and not the more common barbecue farm.
During the First Czechoslovak Republic, the employment of the population did not change. In the years 1939 - 1944, the village was annexed to Hungary.