The village of Štvrtok na Ostrove

Documents from these periods mention the village as CHETURTUC, CHETURTUCKHEIL, CHETERTEKHEL, later as Oppidum CHETERTEK, on the basis of which it is possible that the village had a different name in the earlier period, but it was forgotten and the new name was created by granting the right to Thursday , instead of the original Sunday. The German name of the village - VILLA LIUPOLDI, LEOPOLDSDORF - appeared in documents only in the 15th century.
It is probable, even though no written documents have been preserved about it, that the first settlers in the village came during the reign of St. Stephen. In a local chronicle in 1677, the local priest György Nérey states that St. Stephen ordered the construction of 12 churches in this part of the Danube region, and on that basis Thursday became a "church site". However, the first written mention of the church dates back to 1333, when the Bratislava Chapter states in its report to the king: “It is known that the western part of the village (villa) Chuturtuk, houses on it, belongs to Master Sebes, the eastern part of the same village remains at Péter , and although the church is located in the part of Péter, the church serves the faithful from both parts of the village ”. Nevertheless, Náray's information may be true, as evidenced by the finding from 1956, when during the reconstruction of the church they discovered its "portals", ie the entrance gate, which was built in Romanesque style, richly decorated and placed between two church towers. On both sides of the "portal" there are two round, smoothly processed columns, which are located in the ground below the church, unfortunately, they have not been researched to this day.

Documents from these periods mention the village as CHETURTUC, CHETURTUCKHEIL, CHETERTEKHEL, later as Oppidum CHETERTEK, on the basis of which it is possible that the village had a different name in the earlier period, but it was forgotten and the new name was created by granting the right to Thursday , instead of the original Sunday. The German name of the village - VILLA LIUPOLDI, LEOPOLDSDORF - appeared in documents only in the 15th century.
It is probable, even though no written documents have been preserved about it, that the first settlers in the village came during the reign of St. Stephen. In a local chronicle in 1677, the local priest György Nérey states that St. Stephen ordered the construction of 12 churches in this part of the Danube region, and on that basis Thursday became a "church site". However, the first written mention of the church dates back to 1333, when the Bratislava Chapter states in its report to the king: “It is known that the western part of the village (villa) Chuturtuk, houses on it, belongs to Master Sebes, the eastern part of the same village remains at Péter , and although the church is located in the part of Péter, the church serves the faithful from both parts of the village ”. Nevertheless, Náray's information may be true, as evidenced by the finding from 1956, when during the reconstruction of the church they discovered its "portals", ie the entrance gate, which was built in Romanesque style, richly decorated and placed between two church towers. On both sides of the "portal" there are two round, smoothly processed columns, which are located in the ground below the church, unfortunately, they have not been researched to this day.

The development of the "oppida" Thursday slowed down considerably in the first half of the 16th century, when the last landowner from the Szentgyörgyi family, namely Krištof, died without a male descendant. The entire vast estate of the Szentgyörgyi belonged to the king, who could freely handle it. Ferdinand I decided in 1544 to rent the farm, so - unfortunately for Štvrtočanov - he divided the village itself into two parts, one part through the lord of the castle in Svätý Jur became the property of Gašpar Serédy, while the other part, as part of the castle Éberhard (Malinovo) belonged to Michal Mérey. The unhappy state lasted for about three centuries, during which the development of Thursday was also hindered by the Turkish invasions, their fierce battles with imperial troops, and later the revolution led by František Rákóczi in the first years of the 18th century, when the Upper Rye Island was the site of fierce battles between " kurucmi and labancami ", that is, the free insurgent troops and military units of the Austrian emperor. Thursday formally retained the rights of the agricultural town, but its influence and central position in the region were significantly weakened. Matej Bél, a well-known historiographer of the period, eloquently writes about the fate and position of Štvrtek at that time, claiming that it is "an insignificant landowner, assessing the condition of buildings is much poorer than Šamorín". Thursday at that time also lagged behind in population, when according to the census of 1761, only 419 people lived here.

A new touch of development came only in the period of reforms, and it concerned both economic and social life. Agricultural production has undergone modernization, and in addition to traders, artisans have also strengthened considerably on Thursday. This period is also characterized by rapid development and a certain change in the number and composition of the population of Thursday, while in 1815 only 490 people lived here - as for centuries of Roman Catholicism and Hungarian nationality - the result of the 1867 census speaks of 664 inhabitants , of which 21 professed to be Jewish, 13 to Protestant and one to the Evangelical faith, and in addition to citizens of Hungarian nationality, several German families had already settled on Thursday. During this period, there was also a school in Thursday, but the biggest change was brought about by the public administration reform of 1871: Thursday lost the status of a landowner from a legal point of view, but gained the status of "wholesaler", which according to the new rules of public administration , ie the board of directors and the "first person of the municipality", ie the mayor, were elected by the citizens of the municipality, who had the obligation and the right to pay taxes. The position of the "wholesaler" meant that the mayor and the elected board of directors gained the right to perform all administrative and administrative acts, including ensuring the conditions of economic life of the municipality. The elected management of the municipality apparently managed public affairs well, as evidenced by the sharp increase in the population of the municipality and other changes in its composition. The results of the 1900 census showed that up to 1,092 people lived in the village at that time, of which 1,078 people joined the Catholic Church, eight to the Protestant and Evangelical Churches, and 24 to the Jewish Church, with 991 citizens professing Of Hungarian nationality, 20 Germans, 19 Slovaks and 88 "others" lived in the village (according to contemporary documents in most citizens of "gypsy origin"). Of all the citizens, up to 605 could write and read, which means that they had at least a basic education.

After the First World War, in 1918 the village was assigned to a new state unit, the Czechoslovak Republic. At that time it was named Štvrtok na Ostrove, and it belonged to Bratislava County, within it to the district of Šamorín. After the reform of public administration in 1961, Thursday on the Island became part of the Dunajská Streda district, at the same time as the West Slovakian region. Another change from this point of view occurred in 1997, when the village was included together with the Dunajská Streda district in the Trnava self-governing region.