Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Ecsed. Ghid cultural şi istoric (Satu Mare, 2009)

Nagyecsed după desecarea mlaştinii şi pănă în zilele noastre - Nagyecsed a láp lecsapolásától napjainkig

tion of the agriculture. The administrative reform of 1951 has raised the locality to the status of commune, establishing its own council, and later it became the district center of the commune together with Fábiánháza locality. The period after 1956 has known a great development. The number of inhabitants reached the maximum in this period and, together with a lot of new houses and institutions, a second Calvinist church was built. The Rákóczi agricultural cooperation was founded in 1963, becoming the most important company of the locality. The cooperation had a modest profit in the 1970’s, but subsequently it registered considerable loss. The village remained an agricultural settlement, skipping industrialization. The Attila József High School was opened in 1963, but it was closed in 1974 due to the low number of pupils. The cemetery and the death room were opened in 1975. The water plant and the sewerage network were completed with great difficulties in 1982. The House of Culture was added to the cultural institutions in 1963, comprising also the library of the commune. A collection of local history was set up in the school building, near the market place, in 1988. Recently it was named after Berey János and operates in two exhibition halls.

The first democratically elected local council (1990) proposed to achieve the status of town in order to help the development of the settlement. Nagyecsed has become town on 1st of July, 1997, after two attempts dating from 1994 and 1997. Today, the most important objec-Vedere din Ecedea de pe digul Crasnei Ecsed látképe a Kraszna-töltésről View of Ecsed

Staţia de cale ferată Vasútállomás The railway station

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