Hlohovec

Hlohovec (German: Freistad(l) an der Waag, Hungarian Galgóc), is a town in southwestern Slovakia, with a population of 21,508.[4] The first written evidence of its existence is from 1113, when a town with the name Galgocz was mentioned in the so-called Second Zobor Document.In the castle area is the Empire theatre built in 1802, a riding school from the 18th century, and a Baroque garden pavilion.The most visited and beautiful natural part of town is the castle park with its lake, French terraces, and rare wood-species, especially old sycamore trees.According to the 1910 census the town had 7749 inhabitants: 5645 Slovaks, 1401 Hungarians and 667 Germans, 83.6% of the people were Roman Catholic, 13.7% Jewish and 2.1% Lutheran.
Aerial photography of the castle
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