Báhoň

History

The first written reference to the town comes from 1244. However, it is assumed that for the three hundred years before that Báhoň was owned by the Hungarian kings, attached to the Bratislava Castle estate. In the middle of the 16th century the town has experienced an influx of German colonists, who soon became dominant. Their dominance was defused half a century later when Croatian colonists moved in. The town became fully Slovak after the 1918 founding of Czechoslovakia. In 1580, the ruling Jazernický family built a mansion, which was expanded and rebuilt in 1759-1765. The manor was rebuilt again in 1816 in Neoclassical style. The final renovation came in 1935-1936. In 1845, the horse railway that connected Trnava with Bratislava opened, with a stop in Báhoň. This positively impacted the town's social and industrial development. After the electrified rail line between Žilina and Bratislava opened, Báhoň retained its train station. Between 1914 and 1921, the Roman Catholic church of Saint Francis of Assisi was built by the renowned Slovak architect Milan Michal Harminc. In 1930, a manor house became a care home for the blind, and after World War II an electrical manufacturing facility customized for blind workers was opened. Between 1974 and 1990, Báhoň was much larger than it is today, as it also included the villages of Kaplna and Igram.