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

Summary (Tőzsér Ottilia)

The crusade of the Turks heading for Vienna damaged Csurgó as well. After the expelling of the Turkish neither the Habsburg rein nor the Rákóczi War of Independence gave a chance for the productive living; the vineyard of the village was abandoned for decades, the civil war at the beginning of the XVIII. century and the plague in 1711 collected 216 victims in the community. According to the registration in 1715 nine serves and fourteen cotters (eight without house) lived in the community. In the following decades a significant Hungarian inflow must have taken place, since the registrations of the second part of the XVIII. century show much denser population. In 1752 the Hochburg-heirs shared the Csókakő domain between each other, Hochburg Anna Mária, who was the wife of Karancsberényi Berényi György, got Csurgó with Igar. Afterwards her daughters obtained the property but it ended up in the hands of the Perényis'. Three denominations played significant role in the life of the community. Throughout the XVIII. century the population was basically presbytarian, they also used the abandoned church by the Catholics. A minor evangelic community must have existed beforehand, their own church was first started to be built in 1824. The catholic masses took place in the parish of Bodajk until 1921 when the first independent congregation was established in Csurgó. In 1748 the Catholics took back their former church from the presbyterians, who built a new church first out of hedge then of stone in 1789. Both the Catholics and the Presbyterian school has been existing from the 1740s. There were 15 members of the Catholic,-and 70 members of the Presbytarian school, the evangelic pupils also went to the latter one. Their first denominated school was opened in 1824. From 1819 the school days went on even at the time of the intensive agricultural works. In 1808 Ferenc I. visited the village and as for commemoration a monument was built, which is in the castle park today. Igar was seized as a pledge by Perényi Ferenc to Károlyi György with Keresztes and Szentborbála. In 1834 he even pledged Csurgó as well. The Perényi-family resigned from the right of exchange of Csurgó in 1854. The spinster of Károlyi György bought a building in a village where she settled the Sisters of Charity from Graz. Under their leadership she established a Roman Catholic elementary school, later a kindergarten. The cloister operated until 1941. In 1921 Rákhegy, which previously belonged to Gúttamási, was annexed to Fehérvárcsurgó. Even though, their catholic school remained independent until 1959. Between 1956 and 1967 even a sixth school operated in the surroundings; at Igarpuszta. Modelled on the Károlyi-castle in Pest, Károlyi György had a castle built by using the Perényi castle at the sothern part of the village on the domain estate.