From the beginning, Kysak was located at the crossroads, at the point where the Hornád River changes its course to the south. At a place that opens to the valley of Šariš, Abov and Spiš.
Čierna hora is a mountain range that forms the border with the Slovak Ore Mountains. It is bordered by the Košice basin to the east, the Šarišská vrchovina to the north and Branisko to the northwest. In the heart of these hills lies Kysak, where cultural, dialectal and confessional differences have mixed and specific features unique to this municipality have emerged.
The village of Kysak was probably founded after 1289. The deed from 1289 on the division of the property of Peter of Drien among his 5 sons, where the eldest son Juraj received, among other things, the territory of today's Kysak, does not mention the village yet at that time. Due to its good location on the Hornád River, Kysak became a favourite place of the lords of Drienov, and they built a curacy here, where they stayed more than at Drienov Castle. It was built as a defensive castle, so it did not provide as much comfort as other castles of the time. Later they built a castle in Kysak, first mentioned in 1423, which later fell into ruin and its walls collapsed. The reason for this was that the Drienov estate died out and the new owners of the castle from Plosky and Žehne had their own settlements.
The confluence of the Hornád and the Svinka could tell us a lot about the mighty Abovci who ruled this region, about other lords, about Matej Korvín, about the soldiers who waded through there, about the Sparks, the Catholics and the Evangelicals and their disputes, but also about the rafters, the common people, the pilgrims coming to the sacred mountains to Mala Vieska and Obišovce. And later, along the steel rails of this railway junction, the history of the whole nation was thundering through there. Rulers, statesmen, presidents, ministers, armies that one can only imagine, as well as poor Jews on their way to the hell of Auschwitz, passed through there. War and peace, dictatorship and freedom, rumbled along the tracks.
