Szászberek is a community located in

Szolnok District Szolnok () is a district in western part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County. '' Szolnok'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Northern Great Plain Statistical Region. Geography Szolnok Dis ...

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Location

Szászberek is located in the western part of Hungary, on the edge near

Jászság Jászság ("Jaszygia", ) is a historical, ethnographical and geographical region in Hungary. Its territory is situated in the north-western part of the Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county. The main town in the region is Jászberény. Jászság is inha ...

, on the left bank of the

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, 17 kilometers north of the county seat,

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. The immediate neighboring municipalities are:

Jászalsószentgyörgy Jászalsószentgyörgy is a village in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary. History As the carved stones found at the site of the first settlement of the village - where the ancestors lived for 3 ...

in the north, Jászladány in the northeast,

Besenyszög Besenyszög is a town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. G ...

in the east,

Zagyvarékas Zagyvarékas is a village in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or are ...

in the south,

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in the southwest, and

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in the northwest.

History

The first mention of Szászberek dates back to 1435. At that time, the name of the village was ''Zazberegh''. In the 15th century, the settlement gained the status of a

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, but later lost it because it was depopulated by the Ottoman-

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conquests and devastation in the 17th century. In 1949, Szászberek gained independence from Besenyszög. The settlement's economy was determined by battery production and farming until 2003, but farming continues to this day. 2008 In autumn, the construction of a biomass power plant and pellet production plant began in an Italian-owned industrial area, which is still at the 2008 level in 2021.

Population

The population of Szászberek rose to a peak of 1,029 people in 2014, but declined to 894 people by 2024. In 2022, 92.3% of the population identified themselves as Hungarian, 0.8% as German, 0.4% as Roma, 0.1% as Polish, 0.1% as Greek, 1.9% as other, non-domestic nationality (7.5% did not declare; due to dual identities, the total may be greater than 100%). Of the population, 31.8% called themselves Roman Catholic, 2.7% as Calvinist, 1% as Greek Catholic, 0.1% as Lutheran, 0.1% as Orthodox, 0.1% as Judaist, 1.4% as other Christian, 4.4% as other Catholic, and 19.5% as non-denominational (38.9% did not respond).

Mayors

* 1990–1994: Ifj. Pető Miklós ( MDF) * 1994–1998: Ifj. Pető Miklós ( MDF-

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) * 1998–2002: Vasas Zsuzsanna (Independent) * 2002–2006: Vasas Zsuzsanna (Independent) * 2006–2010: Vasas Zsuzsanna (Independent) * 2010–2014: Alapi József (Independent) * 2014–2019: Alapi József (

) * 2019-től: Alapi József (

)

References

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{{Commons category-inline Populated places in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County