Kinces, Diana: Tăşnad. Chid cultural. Istoric (Satu Mare, 2015)
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the pavements were made of asphalt and the rest were of wood. The street lighting was done with electricity. At that time in the locality there were no hospital, no dispensary, the health care being provided by the hospitals fromCarei, Zalău or Şimleu, instead there were two pharmacies, a district physician, a nurse, four private physicians and two dentists. The most houses were built of clay (765), but there were masonry houses (387) and very few stone houses (9), it had 2 rooms (558 houses) or 3 rooms (418) and in rare cases 1 room (71) or more than 4 rooms (185). At the most houses the roof was made of tile (618) but there were houses covered with shingle, straw, reeds or sheet metal. The households on the periphery of the town had spacious and well maintained barn for the animals. The most houses were heated with cast iron stoves or ceramic stove and fewer were the houses with fireplace. The wells were mostly with wood or stone lip and there were 15 wells with pump and 4 spring wells. In 1944, the Jewish from the town, totaling about 800 people were interned in the ghetto of Satu Mare and then transported to the extermination camps in Poland. Only a year later, after the war, the Swabian from Tăşnad had been transported to labor camps in the USSR. After the end of the damaging events of the Second World War, a notable moment in the life of the town was represented by the administrative reform of 1968, when Tăşnad became again town and it was integrated into Satu Mare county. Previously it belonged to Maramureş region, and until 1948 belonged to Sălaj county. During the communist period, in the town were founded industrial units of wood, construction machinery and light industry. In 1978 was discovered on the territory of the town a major source of thermal waters. Almost immediately was established the resort thermal baths, which currently represents one of the most important targets of balneary tourism in the entire area of Satu Mare. In 1966 the town had 5701 inhabitants and in 1992 reaching the maximum demographic with 8260 inhabitants. In 2011, Tăşnad without its villages had 6859 inhabitants of which 2745 Orthodox, 1944 Calvinists, 1500 Romano Catholics and 212 Greek Catholics and the rest belonging to various neoprotestant cults. The most important cultural personality from Tăşnad area is the Greek Catholic Bishop Grigore Maior (1715-1785), born at Sărăuad that after his graduation from Rome became professor at the renowned School of Blaj. He was appointed as bishop of Blaj by the Empress Maria Theresa, with these attribute setting up and supporting numerous schools and churches. Valuable peoples, secular or ecclesiastical intellectuals, originally from the Romanian villages around Tăşnad had made an important contribution not only to preserve the national consciousness of Romanians, butalsoto improve their quality of life. We must not forget the curacy priest from Cig, Gavrilă Papp who played a leading role in the movement of Sofronie from Cioara (1760 - 1761), loan PopSuduranu (1792 -1872), protopope at Sărăuad, participant at the National Assembly of Blaj from 1848, Matei Silvani, priest in Blaja and Tăşnad during the period of the
