Kinces, Diana: Tăşnad. Chid cultural. Istoric (Satu Mare, 2015)

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suggestive, the almost forgotten art of craftsmen from Tăşnad, today totally replaced by the industrial production.The most practiced craft in Tăşnad was the pottery. In the nineteenth century there were at Tăşnad not less than 20 potters, craft passed down from father to son, and those coming from abroad pay a certain fee to learn the craft. It worth noting that the products obtained had, first of all, a functional role (for cooking, to keep milk and water, to transport food to the field), so we find pots for stuffed cabbage, pans, strainers, pitchers for water or wine, plates, tubes etc. The ceramics of Tăşnad has outstanding technical and aesthetic characteristics, played by simplicity and naturalness, using colors in warm tones.

The specifics of the ceramic produce at Tăşnad is given by the chromatic of the pots, most unglazed, with engobe on the outer layer, technique that offered also the background, over which were applied minimal decorative elements painted with the brush or the horn, representing mostly vegetal ornaments, monochrome and using earthly colors (ocher, brown). As typology are remarkable the pitchers, with a balance of form, proportions and color, reminiscent of ancestral pattern of anthropomorphic vessels.

Towards the middle of the nineteenth century the pottery craft begins to go adrift. Among the best-known potters from Tăşnad were: Murvai Sándor, Vig István, Nagy Lajos, Fazekas Ferenc, Gall Sándor, Zoltán Lajos, Vinkelr József etc.

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The most fame of the current town is due to the geothermal springs from the region. On the territory of the locality was discovered an important reservoir hydrographic termomineral, in 1978 being drilled a capture well of the thermal water, at a depth of 1,354m. The thermal water, which has a surface temperature of 72°C and a total mineralization of 9.84g/l, is predominantly chlorinated-bicarbonated-sulfated and sodium-calcium-magnesium in the presence of the ammonium and potassium. These qualities are indicated for use in external treatment, in degenerative and abarticulare rheumatic diseases, chronic peripheral neurological diseases, chronic gynecological disorders, posttraumatic disorders, associated diseases (endocrine, metabolic diseases) but also toning bathrooms, maintenance of the physical condition or simply leisure cures by combining water, air and sun.