Heves megyei aprónyomtatványok 9/ZC
PARÁDSASVÁR The area on the north side of the Mátra Mountains is famous for its forests and medicinal water springs in our country and abroad. Only few people know, that one of the oldest, nearly 300 years old crafts originates from this area. Centuries ago the German and Slovak master craftsmen who introduced glass blowing, found those streams of which sand they melted with soda and dolomite for making the base for glass blowing. These glass-houses were moving in the Mátra Mountains as the trees decreased in the area. This land was the property of Ferenc Rákóczi II., where the former glass factory was founded after the War of Independence. The products were handmade with the same technique as it is done today, the raw material was melted from the same quartz sand, soda, dolomite and potash. After the fall of the War of Independence the factory was hardly producing glass in the hands of the frequently changing Austrian owners, although the glass used in the households were still needed. Finally Antall Grassalkovich planted the glass-house on his land, where later Parádsasvár was born. At that time all this area was called Párád. The village has been called Parádsasvár for more than a century, after the Károlyi mansion, "Sasvár" , built on the edge of the village, according to the plans of the famous Flungarian architect Miklós Ybl. It is for more than two hundred years, that the glass-house can be called factory, as it has been producing 15000 kg hand-made glassware products a year. It is almost a hundred years that the products has been decorated by cutting. Recently the factory employs five hundred workers and it operates as a manufacture, similarly to its ancestors. Since the village grew around the glass-house, its history is the same, like the history of the factory, as at least two members of each family practise this craft in the Lead-Crystal Manufacture of Parádsasvár.
