A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve: Studia Historica 8. (Szeged, 2005)

NAGYGYÖRGY Zoltán: A Horgos melletti, egykori Kamaráserdő nyomában. Kamarás-puszta, Kamarás-erdő, Kamarás-fürdő, Kamarás-telep

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th century. Lord Lieutenant of Csongrád County, Benjámin Kárász and his only son, Géza together with his cousin Imre planted wonderful trees, parks and forests near Horgos in 1857. The forest in Kamarás was exceptional! Géza being the last member of the Kárász family, lost his inherited wealth giving himself up to his hobby. His landed property sold up in 1890 went into the possession of four members of the officers' club in Szeged: Béla Kelemen, Iván Reök, Mihály Zsilinszky and Béla Ormódy. Ormódy, a prominent merchant and banker in Szeged, bought the pine-forest near Horgos and turned it into Hungary's first officers' holiday resort, called Kamaráserdő (literal translation: forest of Kamarás). However, the resort place with its gorgeous villas mostly designed by Ede Magyar, architect born in Orosháza, had a rather short life, since due to the Trianon Treaty it fell outside the borders of present day Hungary. Kamaráserdő sharing a fate with other once Southern Hungarian settlements has been almost completely destroyed under alien rule. Serbian state power is not interested in preserving Hungarian culture in the territories under their rule. Present study recalls the memory of the holiday resort.