Želiezovce
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Želiezovce (German: Zelis (rare); Hungarian: Zseliz) is a town in Slovakia in the Nitra Region, in the Levice District, near the Hron river.
The territory of the settlement was inhabited as early as the Bronze Age, the Quadi period and the Great Moravian period. It was heavily damaged at the end of World War II.
The town's name comes from the Slovak word for "iron" (železo).
The town is known for a former Neoclassical residence of Count Johann Karl Eszterházy, where the Austrian composer Franz Schubert used to teach music to the young women Maria and Karoline in the summer of 1818 and 1824. Apart from a nice large park, there is another important building: the Schubert House or Owl Chateau (Slovak: Soví zámoček), in which Franz Schubert used to stay, and in which some of his compositions arose (the Sonatas etc.). Finally, the town features a Gothic Catholic church, severely damaged in 1945.
The town gave name to the archeological Želiezovce group (named after a find in Veľký Pesek, now part of the village Sikenica, which was part of Želiezovce in 1986-1992).
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