Let’s get to know the settlements of Fejér! “Tabajd.”

According to the evidence of the old monuments exhibited in the village’s quarry, Tabajd and its surroundings were already inhabited in ancient times. His name appears in 13th century documents as Toboy and then Thuboyd. At that time, it belonged to the Csák family, and later to the possessions of our King Róbert Károly. In the 16th century, according to a contemporary census, there were 30 houses and around a hundred Hungarians, mostly of the Reformed religion, lived in the village. During the Turkish rule, it was depopulated several times and then repopulated. In 1683, it stood in the way of a huge Turkish army marching under Vienna, which looted and burned Tabajd. Life didn’t get any easier in the lean times. During the Rákóczi War of Independence, it was owned by János Bottyán, and it was considered such an important place that even a county assembly was held in the village. The emperors therefore saw the Tabajdians as enemies, in 1707 they drove off their cattle as spoils of war, but also took the grain, wine and small livestock.

Tabajd not only survived the troubled times, but also began to develop in the second half of the 18th century. Next to the demolished and newly built Reformed church, the Catholic church was completed, a school was also built and the number of residential buildings increased. According to the 1890 census, the number of residents living mainly from agriculture exceeded a thousand. “The peasant way of life held the Hungarian village with a Reformed majority stronger, so in the 21st century Even at the beginning of the 20th century, the former buildings of the village remained to be seen, and in the hearts of the elderly, the customs of a bygone era”, can be read in the introduction to the picture book Tabajd anno, in which the author also notes that among the terraced villages in the Vál valley, almost touching each other – Felcsút , Alcsút, Doboz, Tabajd, Vál, Kajászó, Baracska – perhaps Tabajd kept the peasant way of life the longest. The settlement never had nationalities.

If you go to Tabajd and have walked through the Barefoot Park, take off your shoes and take a walk in the village! Go up to the Reformed church, built in a simple, classicist style, from where you can enjoy a beautiful view of the surrounding area. Stop for a minute under the pulpit at the red marble tombstone of Judit Balogh, who died at the age of 106 and 333. He donated the land for the church to the church. Not far from here on another hill is the small Roman Catholic parish church, from where you can also reach the village museum in a few minutes’ walk.

Warehouse, bakery, museum

The Gaszt house, built in the 1850s, standing on the side border, without a gable, with a wooden gable wall, is the oldest and now the only building with a thatched roof in Tabajd. It was named after its last resident. One of its previous owners used it as a warehouse for the pub he operated in the neighboring house, and he also dug an ice pile in his yard. Béla Gaszt, the master baker from Bicske, bought the house from him, who built a huge oven in his yard. After the war, it also served as a Russian horse stable before its old residents, Béla Gaszt and his wife, returned. The latter’s wish before his death was for the house to remain in its old form. At the beginning of the 2000s, the municipality bought and renovated the building, in which the old memories of Tabajdi were collected – furniture, clothes, textiles, pictures, household items and agricultural tools.