Dakó Péter - Erdős Ferenc - Vitek Gábor: Fehérvárcsurgó története - Fejér Megyei Levéltár közleményei 31. (Fehérvárcsurgó - Székesfehérvár, 2004)

Summary (Tőzsér Ottilia)

SUMMARY The village containing approximately two thousand inhabitants is located at the southern part of the Móri-graben in the north-west direction of Székesfehérvár, bordered by the Gaja stream and the Móri-channel. Before the turn of the 20

tn century its name was only the derivation of its present name; 'Csurgó'(trickle). It was nominated by the 'csorgó/csurgó' noun, which means streaming water. This nomination refers to the fact that the village was settled next to a stable water-stream. The prefix of its current name refers to its proximity to the nearby town, Fehérvár. The area of the village is rich in the marks of the ancient people before the age of the conquest. At Gaja-valley neolitic tracks were found, whilst on Várhegy a fortification of an earthwork from the Iron Age can be visible. The lords of that population were buried at the nine tumuli found in the forest of Eresztvény. According to the archeologists the extended settlement from the II-III. century found at the border can be identified as the Roman Osoness. Csurgó and its surroundings were the property of the king and Fehérvár at the Arpadian Age. The first document of Csurgó is thought to be from 1236. It may have become the property of the Csák clan at the middle of the XIII. century. In 1326 Csurgó and Csókakővár was given to the monarch Károly Róbert in return of exchange. Csurgó has first had a church in the Middle Ages, whose parson, pastor Lőrinc paid forty denarius to the tax collector of Pápa in 1334 The present Roman Catholic church preserved architectural elements from the XIII-XV. century. (The Madonna sculpture by Amerigo Tot, who was an offspring of Csurgó, can also be found in the church). Csurgó was first mentioned as a customs place in 1484; in 1528 it had 27 and a half serf-plot. From the first half of the Turkish occupation the last data comes from 1588: there were two tax-paying manors by that time. The village was re-settled at the beginning of the 1620s after being demolished by the 15 year-long war. In 1662,22 full,and 7 half-landed serves were registered and 7 full,- and 4 half serf-lands were left. 239