Darabont Dezső: A Tiszavilág II. absztraktjai (2007) / 884-2007
The landlords of Cibakháza, the Földváry family stood for the profitable operation of the ferry and the exploitation of its potentials. They hired out the ferry, but even the passing traffic had an advantageous impact of the income of their manor. At the beginning of the 19th century, there were several ferries operating in the Tiszazug region, which meant competition for the Cibakháza crossing point. Around 1824, a Szolnok master carpenter and building contractor, Ferenc Flórnályossy-Tunkel made a proposal to build a permanent wooden bridge here. Finally, by 1827, the structure had been erected. Apparently, it was Homályossy who bore the cost of the undertaking, and he was allowed to rent the installation at a reduced price for 12 years from the Földváry’s. Eventually, the village life of Cibakháza began to look up, and soon it became a country town. At the end of July 1849, the withdrawing Hungarian troops burnt down the bridge, and it was never rebuilt. In 1853, during the regulation works of the Tisza, the location of the defunct bridge, the Sárszög bend was cut across, and as a result, Cibakháza lost its role as a crossingplace for good. This, alongside with the capitalist development meant a leeway for both the settlement and the area that was not made up; its impact remained determinant throughout the 19th century. Dr. Cseh Géza: Az 1956-os forradalom eseményei Tiszaföldváron a levéltári iratok tükrében The events of the 1956 revolution in Tiszaföldvár as presented in the archives — The events of the 1956 revolution in Szolnok county passed off relatively silently in a withheld way. However, the situation in Tiszaföldvár was not characterised by calmness, as it was in most of the settlements in the region, but rather by explosive emotions, re-surfacing deep grievances and the total rejection of the communist regime, since the local population had suffered far too much during the years of the one-party dictatorship, and the changes that had happened since 1948 had impaired the whole of the settlement. The surrender of farming goods, the outstandingly high taxation, and the great authoritarianism of the new local leaders had eluded the livelihood of both the smallholder peasantry and the independent handicraftsmen. Although vine-growing, fruit-farming, and distilling spirits had earlier provided aboveaverage standards of living for the local population, in the 1950’s signs of general decline began to show up in Tiszaföldvár. The loss of the status of district seat and the deliberate obstruction of the development of the settlement made this process complete. A large number of local earning people who had lost their lands and livelihood found jobs in the Tisza Boot and Shoe Factory. And factory workers and the politically informed intellectuals served as the radical part of the mass base of the revolution. The revolutionary events in Tiszaföldvár started on 26th October 1956. Workers who had arrived from Martfű and the students and teachers of the local grammar school held a rally; they read out their claims and pulled down the monument of Soviet heroes. The next day, on 27th October, the local revolutionary council was formed. The much-hated communist functionaries were ousted from power, and then they were relegated from the township. Although, the toppled mayor was slightly insulted physically, there were no serious atrocities despite the explosive emotions. Members of the MDP (the ruling communist party) were not chased down; what is more, some of them got elected into the new revolutionary leadership. However, the ex-functionaries were definitely harassed, threatened and sometimes publicly humiliated. The revolutionary council organised a civic guard, started food consignments to Budapest, and brought pressure to bear on the local producers’ cooperatives to persuade their members to dissolve those farms. In the first days of November, most political parties were reorganised, that had operated in Tiszaföldvár between 1945 and 1948. After the Soviet military intervention on 4th November, widespread and prolonged resistance emerged in the town. The revolutionary council kept on meeting until the end of November.
