Kinces, Diana: Tăşnad. Chid cultural. Istoric (Satu Mare, 2015)
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establishment of the Bank Vulturul, the third Romanian bank in the county, founded in 1908, following the efforts of several priests, lawyers, teachers, and also some peasants from Tăşnad and surrounding villages. The bank activity was predominantly agrarian, especially helping the rural world where investments were modest, but was also involved in supporting cultural activities. The bank activity continued until 1947, under the leadership of Vasile Pintea. A central role in this initiative had the lawyer dr. Coriolan Steer, leading member of the newly established bank and one of the leading figures of economic, political and cultural life of Tăşnad in the time. He was the president of the cultural association Astra Tăşnad and he heavily involved in the enlighten activity of the population in the area, playing an important role in the events that marked the first decades of the twentieth century. It was member in the Romanian National Council of Tăşnad being delegated to represent the electoral Circle of Tăşnad at the Great National Assembly of Alba lulia (1 December 1918), where became member of the Great National Romanian Council. In the elections of November 1919 he was elected senator of the circle of Tăşnad. In the period that follows the integration of Transylvania in Romania, Tăşnad continued to keep its statusas administrative center. The years between the two world wars were characterized by a steady economic development. In 1931 Tăşnad was mentioned as an independent township, also comprising the villages Blaja, Moara Banfi (now Valea Morii) and Tăşnadul Nou. According to the sanitary monography prepared by the district physician Nicolae Pop, on 28 July 1938, Tăşnad had an area of 3772 hectares and 5860 inhabitants, of which 1498 were Romanian, 1463 Hungarian, 1928 Swabian and 782 Jewish. The degree of illiteracy was very low, only 2-3%. Tăşnad was the administrative residence, with notary, mayor, paymaster, gendarmerie post, judicature and a colony of Childcare center from Oradea with 42 children in care. Most people worked in agriculture, they cultivated wheat on an area of over 1000 hectares, maize (880 ha), barley, rye, had fruit trees and 400 hectares of vineyards, being a large wine producer, growing animals especially pigs, bovines and horses, sheep and poultries. There were 87 merchants, 3 industrialists and 149 craftsmen, 2 cylindrical mills, a brick factory, 7 bakeries, 9 butcheries, a slaughterhouse, 3 tanneries, 2 pottery workshops, a rope maker, an artistic carpentry workshop and an electric power station. The streets were paved with stone, in the center
