from Vlastivedny slovnik obci na Slovensku
[translation courtesy of Mark Sabol]

I. 1. [Old names for the village found in documents, with the year of the document] 1361: Kolach; 1390: Kalach; 1773: Kollacz; 1773: Kolaszko;1808: Koláčkow; Magyar [Hungarian]: Kolacsk, Kalács; German: Klotsch. [Adjective form of the village name]: kolačkovský; [name for an inhabitant of the village]: (m)Kolačkovčan/(f)Kolačkovčanka

2. [Administrative membership] [Former] County: Spiš; [then] District: Stará Ľubovňa [within] Region: Prešov until 1960; [then] District: Poprad, [followed by] from 1968, District: Stara Ľubovňa, [within] Region: Eastern-Slovak.

4. [Names used for parts of the township] Pastovník [the Pasture], Rovienka [The Flat]

5. [Population at given years]
in 1869: 755 people;
in 1880: 785 people;
in 1890: 690 [100 person drop due to emigration];
in 1900: 648 people;
in 1910: 570 people;
in 1921: 533 people;
in 1930: 561 people [emigration to America blocked in 1924];
in 1940, 637 people;
in 1948, 687 people;
in 1961, 683 people;
in 1970, 696 people.
6. [Extent of township land] 860 hectares [about 2100 acres];

II. [Geology, topography] [Elevation] 648 meters in the center of the village, [ranging from] 600 to 1062 meters in the township. Kolačkov. It lies in the Levoca Hills, in the valley of the Kolačkovianok Brook. [Rock of the] Central Carpathian flysch sequence, with a predominance of sandstones, forms the branched, moderately to deeply cut plateau of the township. There are sulphur springs here. The majority of the township is forested by pine woods. Brown forest soil predominates. For further [information, see the section on the neighboring village of] Jakubany.

III. [History] 2 -- 3. The village arose at the end of the 13th century on territory that [Hungarian King] Andrew III gave in 1293 to Spišska Kapitula [Spiš Chapter, the religious community and seminary near Spis Castle where the Roman Catholic bishop of Spis County had his seat]. The farming, herding, and woodcutting village was known for its manufacture of wooden tools and cloth. In the year 1787, it had 72 homes and 502 inhabitants; in the year 1828, 127 homes and 923 inhabitants. In the 19th century there was functioning here a small foundry. -- Part of the inhabitants during the first Czecho-Slovak Republic were employed by work in the forests and in construction. During the Slovak National Uprising, they supported the partizans. Private enterprise farmers work the soil [in contrast to most other villages, where farms were collectivized; this is the point where, for most villages, the book notes the year of the founding of the collective farm]. Part of the inhabitants work in industrial enterprises in the vicinity.

IV. [Architecture] 9. Church. Roman Catholic, Gothic [style], from the end of the 13th century, classically reconstructed at the end of the 18th century.

11. Street buildings.

V. [Arts, crafts] In the first half of the 20th century, they fulled cloth, made wood-inlaid hairpins, the so-called "zapinačky" [button-clasps?] ([craftsmen] Štefan Dziak, J[an?] Kopček). -- Variation of folk costume, [see] Jakubany.

VII. [?] 1763. [Vol] 2, page 60.