Lakitelek

	Lakitelek
	Lakitelek
	Lakitelek
Basic data
State :	Hungary
Region :	Southern Great Plain
County :	Bács-Kiskun
Small area until December 31, 2012 :	Kecskemét
District since 1.1.2013 :	Tiszakécske
Coordinates :	46 ° 52 ′ N , 20 ° 0 ′ E Coordinates: 46 ° 52 ′ 8 " N , 19 ° 59 ′ 42" E
Area :	54.66 km²
Residents :	4,421 (Jan 1, 2011)
Population density :	81 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code :	(+36) 76
Postal code :	6065
KSH kódja:	06202
Structure and administration (status: 2018)
Community type :	Large community
Mayoress :	Anita Zobokiné Kiss (independent)
Postal address :	Széchenyi krt. 48 ; 6065 Lakitelek
Website :	www.lakitelek.hu
	(Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal )

Aerial view of the Tősfürdő thermal bath

The Lakitelek Fire Brigade Orchestra (2016)

Lakitelek is a Hungarian large village in the county Tiszakécske in Bács-Kiskun .

location

The village is 120 km from Budapest and 27 km from Kecskemét . The river Tisza only flows 3 km from Lakitelek.

history

Lakitelek was founded in 1949-50 with the unification of the small towns around Kecskemét. The participating communities and areas were: Felsőalpár, Kisalpár, Oncsa-telep, Árpádszállás, Szikra and Kapásfalu.

Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Because of the favorable geographical location of the community, the surrounding areas were inhabited even before writing. The oldest finds date from the Copper Age around the 3rd millennium BC. At that time the inhabitants were the so-called Bodrogkeresztúr culture . The ancient finds came to light when the railway system was built in the 19th century. Among them are finds from the Copper Age , Iron Age Celtic objects, or objects of the later inhabitants of the areas, the Sarmatians , the Germanic Gepids or the Avars , but also the settling Magyars .

The area has already been mentioned by Anonymous . At that time, the areas served as a meeting place for the royal armies. Hence the name of the nearby area, " Árpádszállás " ( Szállás means accommodation in German).

The plots of the present village were first in the records of I. King Géza mentioned. The founding document of the Abbey of Garamszentbenedek from 1075 mentions that the areas of today's village were the drinking troughs of the royal stud farms and that many grape gardens flourished nearby. In these documents the name of the first resident was also mentioned, the Truchsess Bocz, who took care of the watering of the stud farms and the fishing lakes of the abbey. At that time the area was called Felsőalpár .

The name Lak was first mentioned for the area in 1488 alongside the names of Alsóalpár, Szentkirály and Szentlőrinc.

A national map from the 16th century mentions Felsőalpár as a church village. The excavations of Kálmán Szabó brought to light the remains of a fishing village, which can be found today next to the road 44.

Under the Ottoman occupation (16th century)

From the time of the Turkish occupation we have numerous documents that are documents related to tax payments. According to the reports of the Defter , the Turkish tax collectors, the areas under the occupation were not completely depopulated. These documents mention 40 families, so the total population was around 150-200. The destruction of the villages around Kecskemét took place during the 15-year war between the Ottoman Empire and the emperor, Rudolf Habsburg .

During this time the Turkish-Tatar armies devastated the areas between the Tisza and the Danube several times . The devastation was so great that only three inhabited localities remained, which were: Kecskemét, Nagykőrös , and Cegléd . The population that survived the war found hiding in the swampy world of the great Hungarian lowlands.

According to an agreement between the city council of Kecskemét and the Ottomans, the areas around what is now Lakitelek come into the hands of the city.

18. – 19. century

In the 18th century, after the end of the Rákóczi freedom struggle , a longer, peaceful period began. The population began to migrate from the cities and they repopulated the smaller villages. Her main occupations were animal breeding and agriculture.

This situation changed fundamentally in the second half of the 19th century when the grape gardens in the area were destroyed by phylloxera .

The populations of Felsőalpár and Lakitelek grew rapidly in the 19th century. In order to improve the connection between the inhabitants of the two villages, the first local railway line was built in 1890. First it ran to the Tisza, then through Szolnok to Kiskunfélegyháza .

Modern times

The Tiszaug Bridge was handed over in 1927 in the presence of Miklós Horthy . This made Lakitelek a traffic hub. More and more industrialists moved into the village.

By this time the population had already exceeded 3000. Since the official affairs in Kecskemét took far too much time to complete, a provisional administrative branch was established in 1931 to answer inquiries from residents. The first school was founded in 1860 in the Felsőalpár district.

The Second World War hardly damaged the village. Refugees from the surrounding areas even found shelter in Lakitelek from the pillaging Soviet soldiers .

In 1953, under communist rule, the state production cooperative was founded on an area of 490 kha. Industry was not installed in Lakitelek at that time.

Modern time

Lakitelek became world famous in 1987 when 150 intellectuals held a forum entitled “The Opportunities of Hungarians” ( A Magyarság esélyei ). The negotiations took place at the gate of Sándor Lezsák and here the democratic party for the transition, the Hungarian Democratic Forum , or MDF for short, was founded, which party was elected as the first ruling party of democratic Hungary after the transition.