Csaroda is a village in
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the
Northern Great Plain
The Northern Great Plain ( hu, Észak-Alföld) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of the Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Northern Great Plain includes the counties of Hajdú-Bihar, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Sza ...
region of eastern
Hungary
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.
Geography
It covers an area of and has a population of 654 people (2001).
Setting
Csaroda is in
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, on the Beregi-plane, near to
Nyíregyháza
Nyíregyháza (, sk, Níreďháza) is a city with county rights in northeastern Hungary and the county capital of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg. With a population of 118,001, it is the seventh-largest city in Hungary and the second largest in t ...
(73 km) and to
Vásárosnamény
Vásárosnamény is a small town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. It also includes Vitka since 1969, and in 1939 Gergelyi and Ugornya formed by uniting Gergelyiugornya.
Postal history
Pri ...
(12 km).
History
Csaroda and its vicinity was mentioned first in written form in 1299 (sacerdos de ''Charnawoda'').
Its name came from the river name Čierna (Čarná) voda - in
Slavic languages
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the Ear ...
"Black water" where it is setting (1270 fluv. ''Chernauoda'').
In the 13th century the Káta family was the landowner of the village. In the 14th century the Csaroda family was the landowner, a leading family of Bereg county. In 1446 ''Vetési family'', from 1461 to 1476 the ''Tegzes, Drágfy, Daróczy and Újhelyi families'' are the landowners, later the ''Lónyai, Rédey'' and ''Bay family'', finally the ''Teleky counts''.
Jews lived in Csaroda for many years until they were murdered in
The Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...
Documentation of the village's Jews murdered in the Holocaust
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Sightseeings
Csaroda has its beautiful little 13th-century Romanesque village church with 14th-century Gothic frescos, 17th-century paintings and wood-carvings. An old wooden bell-tower stands by the church (13th century)
References
Bibliography
* Dercsényi D. (1972): Románkori építészet Magyarországon. Corvina, Budapest
* Gerevich T. (1938): Magyarország románkori emlékei. (Die romanische Denkmäler Ungarns.) Egyetemi nyomda. Budapest
* Gerő, L. (1984): Magyar műemléki ABC. (Hungarian Architectural Heritage ABC.) Budapest
* Henszlmann, I. (1876): ''Magyarország ó-keresztyén, román és átmeneti stylü mű-emlékeinek rövid ismertetése'', (Old-Christian, Romanesque and Transitional Style Architecture in Hungary). Királyi Magyar Egyetemi Nyomda, Budapest
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