page_title: Spišský Hrušov
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Spišský Hrušov / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Spišský Hrušov Coat of Arms
context_page_description: Spišský Hrušov is a village and municipality in the Spišská Nová Ves District in the Košice Region of central-eastern Slovakia. In 2011 had 1,266 inhabitants
context_section_description: The village was founded before the 12th century in the former Hungarian Szepes County (Szepes is Hungarian for beautiful). The first historical records of its existence are from 1253. The village name is derived from the Slovak word for pear (hruška) and its former Hungarian names incorporated the equivalent Hungarian word for pear of "körte". Local folklore refers to a large pear tree located on a nearby hill that was supposed to have had mysterious powers. The tree is now gone but the story lives on. The coat of arms of the village is a tree on a hill with four pears on its branches.
  Below is a chronology of the former Hungarian, German, and Slovak names of present day Spišský Hrušov:
  
  1253 - Kurtues, Kurtueles
  
  1255 - Kurtuelus
  
  1294 - Horusk, Hurusk
  
  1360-1364 - Hruschfálva, Hruskfálva, Hruskafálva
  
  1368 - Grussov
  
  1386 - Graucza
  
  1495 - Grawss
  
  1500 - Hrussow
  
  1773 - Körtvélyes, Körtvélesz, Bierndorff, Grossow
  
  1786 - Körtwélyesch, Birndorf, Hrussow
  
  1808 - Körtvélyes, Birndorf, Grausch, Hrussow
  
  1863-1902 - Körtvélyes
  
  1907-1918 - Szepeskörtvélyes
  
  1920 - Hrušov
  
  1927 - Spišský Hrušov
  Next to the town hall is the Gothic style Roman Catholic church of St. Catherine of Alexandria (Kostol svätá Kataríny Alexandrijskej). It was built in the late 13th century, rebuilt in the 17th and 18th centuries, renovated in 1900 and again in 1951. The Chapel of St. Sofia (Kaplnka svätá Žofie) adjoins the northeast side of the church.
  The only industry in Spišský Hrušov is BIO-plus, s.r.o, a company that manufactures motor fuel from organic plant material. It is located at the northeast end of a road that follows a tributary of the Lodina River that runs through the village.
caption: Coat of Arms
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