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

Date istorice - Történelmi adatok

at least four languages: German, Hungarian, Latin and Slavic. Children would not attend school as often as they should being busy with field work especially in spring and autumn. In 1850, villagers have bought a nice house near the church, designed to serve the Confessional School. In 1904, the school expanded, having already three teachers and two buildings. In the interwar period, in one of the school buildings was founded the school of state in Romanian teaching language.

Urziceni became a prosperous village as a result of the good quality of the land and due to good management of colonists, during the 18th century. The locality was characterized a century later as one of the most tidy, beautiful and flourishing villages of the county. In this period, the village became famous for the horse farm that functioned here. The breeding of burden horses was the most significant, but they were also used for riding, even by the counts of Károlyi. In the year 1742, there were no fewer than 299 horses in the village. Nowadays, however, there is no horsefarm anymore.

With a majority of Schwab population, the village had suffered much at the end of the World War II, when ethnic Germans were deported to labor camps in the USSR. In January 1945,247 Schwabs were forced to leave Urziceni. The German population decreased in the 1980s again, when the immigration to Germany

Pictura altarului principal „Descoperirea Sfintei Cruci”

A „Szent Kereszt megtalálása” főoltárkép

The painting of the main altar “The finding of the True Cross”

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