Málaš

The lowland parish of the village spreads itself on the terraces of the creek Nýrica, which flows through the Eastern foothill of Pohronská hilly country and behind Pohronský Ruskov it pours itself into the river Hron. First mentions about the village as a possession of Ostrihom’s archdeacon comes from 1156. Possessors have changed from cetury to century, the village was owned by many noblemen or yeoman stocks. Today’s the village Málaš includes also
3 settlements, where feudal holdings had been situated - Dolná Arma, Malý Málaš a Pereš. Málaš have always been a agricultural village, because its character was determined by fertile arable land and high-quality pastures. Inhabitants were famous gorwers and breeders – holders of many prizes in high-quality corn competitions.

Education and culture came to farmer’s families thanks to school, nowadays called the old school, already since 1876. Faster qrowth of education started after the origin of Czechoslovakia. In 1940’s Málašan’s inhabitants subscribed even 176 pieces of Slovak, Hungarian and Geman newspapers. There were only a few libraries.
The first Roman Catholic church, originally a gothic building, was mentioned already in 1323. At the beginning of the 20th century they built on its foundations the Church of Virgin Mary in neogothic style with fresco púaintings of K. Rónay in the interrior.
In the village lived also several curias. The oldest residential building is the curia of the family Foglár’s from the border of the 17th and 18th centuries. It is a ground-floor baroque building in a shape of the letter L. Building Nr. 228 is a rebuilt rest of the curia of Veress’s from the second half of the 19th century. On feudal holdings have stayed many other curias, but only granaries remained. The only exception is the ruin of the 3-storeyed castle in Dolná Arma, on which also nowadays one can see a difficult achitectonic design.

In the village you can find several exterior plastics and crucifixes situated near roads. Beside the old school is the God’s torture, a folk work made from wood, in front of the church is a crucifix, near the curia of Raffay’s a rococo sculpture of St. John Nepomucký from 1761, in the chapel of Virgin Mary from 1875 is a painting of Virgin Mary.
The lowland surrounding area of the village is a great terrain for cyclotourism. A visit of Esterházy’s mannor house offers a beautiful experience in not far Želiezovce, where a commemoration room of Franz Schubert reminds the summer stays of this Austrian music composer, who had found there his inspiration beside creating the cycle of songs Beautiful miller woman. In neighbour Plavé Vozokany one can see 300-year-old pear-tree.