Liviu, Marta - Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Andrid. Ghid cultural şi istoric (Satu Mare, 2011)
Date istorice - Történelmi adatok
Court, while the others were sentenced to a period of imprisonment ranging from two to ten years. All the eight people spent three years of forced labor at the Danube - Black Sea Canal, obtaining pardon only in 1963. After removing the resistance movement, collectivization was carried out without any other problems in Andrid, and the Collective Farm was set up in only several months. The members of the resistance movement were rehabilitated in 1998, and a memorial plaque was unveiled in the local Calvinist Church. Among the systematization actions carried out during the communist era that changed the look of the area surrounding Andrid, the most significant was the canalization of the Ier River. The initiative was born in 1965, and collective work actually started two years later, by digging a 91 km canal meant to collect the waters of Ier, which was provided with dams and reservoirs. Sewage turned 54,000 hectares of marsh in cultivable land. In the same period dominated by the communist regime, two Agricultural Production Cooperatives operated in Andrid where they grew more than 7,000 pigs, turning the village into the most important pig farmer in the county. In 1997, Andrid won the “European Village of Storks” title, awarded for the village with the biggest number of stork nests in Europe. Ever since, the annual celebration of Afndrid village became known as the “Storks Feast”. The Orthodox Church of “St. Archangels Michael and Gabriel”. The Romanian community had a wooden church even before 1747, when the edifice is described as in an advanced state of deterioration. The present-day building was built between 1821 and 1825. The tower with plain roof, made of tin, comes in the front of the main facade of the nave and it raises two levels above the nave. The uniformity of the nave is broken in the right of the altar by the two niches for the parish cantors (kliros) and the cornice under the roof, being divided into vertical records by bands of plaster. The interior Biserica reformată, fotografie de arhivă Archív felvétel a református templomról Archive photo of the Calvinist church 29
