Bušovce (German: ''Bauschendorf'') is a village and municipality in Kežmarok District in the

Prešov Region The Prešov Region, also Priashiv Region ( sk, Prešovský kraj, ; hu, Eperjesi kerület; uk, Пряшівський край) is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions and consists of 13 districts (okresy) and 666 municipalities, 23 o ...

of northern central Slovakia.

Geography

The municipality lies at an altitude of 593 meters and covers an area of 9.03 km². It has a population of 306 people (as of 31 December 2015).

History

In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1286. In 1910 the village had 441 mainly German inhabitants of Lutheran confession. It was part of the German language island of the Oberzips. At the end of World War II the German population was expelled according to the

Beneš decrees The Beneš decrees, sk, Dekréty prezidenta republiky) and the Constitutional Decrees of the President of the Republic ( cz, Ústavní dekrety presidenta republiky, sk, Ústavné dekréty prezidenta republiky) were a series of laws drafted by t ...

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Economy and infrastructure

Most important sights to see are the evangelical neo gothic and Roman Catholic

gothic Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths **Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...

churches and a

baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

manor house.

Genealogical resources

The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive Statny Archiv in Levoca, Slovakia. * Roman Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1673-1899 (parish A) * Greek Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1822-1925 (parish B)

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