Čečejovce

Čečejovce (Hungarian: Csécs) is a village and municipality in Košice-okolie District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia.

The village of Čečejovce is situated 205 m above sea level in the Košice Lowlands 22 km to the southwest of Košice in Slovakia. Čečejovce, including its part Seleška, has 2008 inhabitants.

The first written document of the village comes from the year 1317 where the settlement is named as "CECH". According to the tools made of stone 35 000 years B. C. and found in the territory of the village it can be made out, that the history of the village is much older and goes back as far as the Older Stone Age. The revealed foundations of ancient Neolithic settlements in various parts of the village's territory (the oldest comes from the period 5 000 years B. C.) prove the existence of numerous settlements with constructed dwellings already in the Stone Age when a considerable part of the territory was still covered by forests.

The Perényi’s family was the first owner of the village known from the written document in 1402. Later, the Pédery and the Szirmay families are also named among the other possessors.

According to the records from 1427 the estimated number of inhabitants of the village was 350. Although the village itself wasn’t occupied by Turks, it was almost completely unpopulated for fear of Turkish invasions. In 1715 there were only 4 families living here. After withdrawal of the Turks, the possessor of the village Szirmay let Hungarian families settle here. Afterwards, Slovak, Polish, and Ruthenian settlers also came to the area. In 1826 the village already had 1029 inhabitants, whose majority devoted themselves to agriculture.

In 1831 the surroundings of the village were affected with cholera, which took its victims also in this village. In 1869 there were counted 894 inhabitants here, in 1903 785, and in 1920 877 inhabitants. According to the census of Jews in 1848 there were 99 of them living in the village. A considerable part of population emigrated from the village to the U.S.A. and Canada for work because of the difficult living conditions before and after World War I.

Čečejovce already had its seal in the 18th century (the oldest document with the seal comes from 1778) and its own post office in 1856. In 1885 a new building of post office with a telegraph and post office savings bank was built. The village gained in importance after establishing the notary's office in 1867-68 and the district registry office in 1895. Its significance raised still more by opening the railway line Košice-Turňa nad Bodvou in 1890. In the railway station Čečejovce 8 440 passengers got on trains in 1894.

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