Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)
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THE 19TH CENTURY - THE CENTURY OF GREAT CHANGES 141 were 15 families, in 1840 there were 25 and in 1854 40 families. In 1840 they built their synagogue. The Jewish people who came from Czech, Moravian and Silesian territories spoke Yiddish and German. Vác from Szentendre Island The building of the Diet in Pozsony THE INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN Due to its limited confines it was becoming more and more difficult for the town to maintain its growing population. In the late 18th century, in 1784 the number of inhabitants was 8334, while half a century later 13,256, then in 1869 15,868 and at the end of the 19th century 16,808 people lived in Vác. By the middle of the 19th century most of the people who had settled down from other countries had become hungarianized, although Hungarian, German and Slovak words could equally be heard in the streets. One example of assimilation is that from 1814 onwards the morning mass in the Dominican Church, which was attended mainly by German citizens, was celebrated first in Hungarian and then in German, while formerly the order had been the opposite. In 1868 the inhabitants requested that the Sunday mass be celebrated only in Hungarian at the Church of the White Friars, which might have been prompted by less noble feelings than pure patriotism. The denominational divisions of the town multiplied: besides the Roman Catholic and the Calvinist church the Lutheran congregation was also founded in the early 1840s. The first Jewish family received their residence permit only in 1813, but their number increased steadily: in 1815 there The town, which was still divided in the first half of the century, had several conflicts with its landlords. In the case of Püspökvác (Bishop's Vác) one bone of contention was over the municipal status of the town with a regular council and the original jurisdiction being the issues of a legal procedure carried on for years. The final decision of municipal status with a regular council was made by the general assembly of Pest County in 1840, which reinforced the former position of the town and retained its right of original jurisdiction on its common citizens. Another lawsuit lasting for decades was related to socage debts and leasehold: a claim on more favourable conditions of ground-rent, publican's licence, the right to retail wine from home, bigger fields and the re-surveying of the confines of the town. Only Káptalanvác (Chapter's Vác) managed to take the opportunity offered by the act of socage passed by the diet of 1832/36 and redeemed some of its socage debts in 1841. The coats of arms of Chapter’s Vác and Bishop's Vác on the Holy Trinity column TWO TOWNS, TWO LANDLORDS November 1867 1870 1873 1880s 1888 1889 1899 Socage contract The first newspaper is published in Vác The bourgeois town council is formed The devastation of the phylloxera The first music school is opened The first factory of Vác, the Knitwear Factory is established The development of Deákvár is started. The Sports Club of Vác is formed
