Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Urziceni. Ghid cultural şi istoric (Satu Mare, 2009)

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two columns from the inside are cylindrical. At the upper part, the porch continues with a rectangular tower with one level, being fit with a window on each facade. Both the tower windows and the nave windows are semicircular at the upper part. The interior is simple, with the altar table made of marble. There is an icon above it representing Jesus, the Good Pastor. Along the main alley of the cemetery, are the stations of the Passion of Christ are erected in the form of buildings, with semicircular upper part, with a niche for depositing the icons. The cemetery also houses the monument of deportees, made of white and black marble.

The present territory of Urziceni-Pădure was covered by forests until the recent times. The trace of the forests is visible even now, but it was more obvious to people at the beginning of the 20th century, calling the territory of Urziceni-Pădure that “wherever you look, you can see but woods and forests”. When the Schwabs settled in Urziceni, they started an intensive agricultural work of the lands in the area, cutting down a part of the surrounding forest. After cutting the trees, habitation increased in the area and subsequently raised the village whose name preserves the original characteristic of the area: Urziceni-Pădure (the forest of Urziceni). The name appears for the first time in 1913, but the locality becomes independent in 1959. The number of inhabitants of the settlement was always low, but nowadays it

Capela din cimitir A temető kápolna The cemetery chapel

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