The past of Jászszentandrás

You can find this village in the north part of Alföld, it is in the Jazygian area, the near of the Mátra mountain and the district of Jászberény , between Jászapáti and Heves.
This village is reachable from the public road 31st. or the slip- road 3228th.
It’s height above the sea –level is 102 m and it’s mean yearly temperature is 10,3 C° , it’s mean yearly precipitation is between 500-550 mm. There isn’t any living waters here, but in the second half of the XX. century at the south border there were remarkable water levels.
It’s coat of arms was made in 1901. but it has changed a lot year by year. Presently on this coat of arm there is a shield, a gold coulter, an arth-board and a spike.
You can find a plenty of archeological finds in of this village. From the metal age the people and the culture have been settled currently. The most significant the arms of the Celtic warriors and the graves of the Hungarian conquerors which were excavated by Kaposvári Gyula in 1955. The real settlement has just started around the XVIII. century.
The name of the village has changed a lot , but it’s shown on the changing rule of the latin language.
1236: Endree( Enderfalva)
1399: Szentandrás
1423: Szent-András
1433: Zenthandrás
XVI. century : Szentandrás, Zenthandrás
1727: Zenth-András
1749: Szent- András
XIX. century: Szentandrás, Pusztaszentandrás
1884: Puszta Szent András
1886: Jász Szent András
1910: Jászszentandrás

From the age of king Zsigmond to the age of the turkish ,this village was a victim of a litigation. In the siege to the castle of Eger in 1552., Horváth János got the area of Szentandrás. After the expulsion of the turkish people in 12 January, 1750.with signed of Maria Terézia, Szentandrás was the property of Árokszállás. At the age of 1886. Jász Szent András rose up to a municipial state.

History in dates:
1236. The first licensed data about the area of the settlement which mentioned a village : Endree(Enderfalva)
1264. The area of Szentandrás is the part of the property of Heves and it is used by the villeins of Heves.
1339. The first mention on the name of Szentandrás
1750. Szentandrás was the property of Árokszállás with the signed of Mária Terézia.
1750-59. The first building was built , it was the chapel for the Saint Cross. It stood till 1901.
1786. The tavern of Vesszőshalom was built.
1884. The independent parish was organized.
1886. Jász Szent András rose up to a municipial state.
1903. The new neogothical church was built by Czigler Győző’s plans.
1914-18. During the World War I. 1420 soldiers went to war and 144 died for king and country.
1919. The members of the local directory were executed by romanian soldiers at the border of Tarnaörs.
1926. The monument for the World War I. by Kisfaludy Strobl Zsigmond was initiated, the special guest was archduke József .
1933. Aba-Novák Vilmos, Chiovini Ferenc and Czumpf István decorated inside of the church with frescos.
1944. 14 November the russian army was occupied the village.
1990. The first independent government started their work with 9 representatives and with the lead of the mayor.

In the past of Jászszentandrás the main thing was the stock raising, mainly the horse and bull breeding. The village was famous for the tobacco-growing and viniculture.
The main showpieces are the frescos of the church, the monument of the World War I. and the statue of Saint Andrew.
In the second half of the 1920’s the village was developed , they built a school with 4 flats for the teachers; the Knight Rifle-range and the Heroes Parkland; a World War I. statue was inaugurated, the gendarme post, the tavern, the town clerk’s house, and the doctor’s house were built, and the city hall was extended. They made up the worse bells , they got the fire extinguisher, made 3 new streets, corrected the old ones, and some reading circles started their work. The best thing was that first in the country a horse knight formation was shaped.
These things happened almost in 3 years.


The present of Jászszentandrás

The settlement is an agricultural village of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county which has got 20600 ares inner city area and 422700 ares outskirts.
2624 people live in Jászszentandrás, there are 370 people under 18 years, there are 1390 people between 17-59 years and above 60 years there are 864 people. A part of the active workers work for the big companies and factories in this area, like Jászberény, Visonta and Jászfényszaru .
From the 90’s the number of the enterprises and private entrepreneurs are developing , at the moment there’re 35 merchants, 22 catering trades, 68 services, 8 industrial works and 10 agricultural enterprises work in our village and 51 primary producers have got their license.
Presently the main agricultural sector is the cultivation of plants, but we have to mention the growing of watermelon, corn, grape and fruit and very significant our silviculture.
From the stock-raising point of view the most important are the cattle, swine and the poultry breeding.
The infrastructure of the settlement is developed, the main traffic direction is the public road 31st. and the slip-road 3228th which connects our settlement with Jászapáti.
There is no railway station in Jászszentandrás, the nearest station is in Jászapáti(10 kms) and in Heves(11 kms).
Inside the village the streets’ve got massive road surface(9,797 kms long), for walking there is a 35,43 kms long pavement. Our electricity, telephone network, piped water and piped gas are built up inside the village.The latest generations were the drainpipe, the cable television and the wide-striped internet network. Besides these things there are 25 pits and 56 fireplugs.

The mayor’s office serves the duties of the inhabitants with 12 people in the office.
In Jászszentandrás there is a council who does the direction of the settlement.
The memebers of the council are: Banka Ferenc mayor, Nagy László deputy mayor, Dr Czók Zoltán, Dávid Áron, Éles Andor, Fehér Attila, Gonda Lászlóné, Hegyi Zoltán, Kertész Zoltán, and Szabó László.



Primary School, Nursery School and First Grade Art School
The leaders of this institute are:
Muhari Zoltán , headmaster and Gonda Lászlóné, nursery school director.
In 1983. the building of this school was built and in 2005 it was renewed.
Here there are 16 educators, 1 admininstrative worker and 3 technical workers help our 165 children’s work. A gym belongs to this institute where the teachers can assure us that our children get the chance of everyday sport.
In front of the building there is a wooden headboard which was made by Dávid Sándor.
From 1950 there are 3 groups in the nursery school, where the children can play in good- equipped classes. Presently 43 children go to this kindergarten, there’re 4 nursery teachers and 3 nurses.
The institute does art duties : musical education, folk dance classes colour the children’s everyday life from their age of 4. It is very popular round the children.

Waldorf Napsugár Primary School
Our village this institute works from 2005.

House of the Country
This building was renewed in 2007 which is going to be handing over during the XIII. Jazygian World Conference. It was built in 1857. as a school building, but now it is going to be as a museum from the June of 2007. which would show our ancestries’ everyday life.

Community Centre and Library
This is the only institute which services the cultural programmes. Here take place some civil clubs and it’s amateurish art groups. It helps their work and gives them place to show their work.
In this building there is a library where you can select out of 19 thousand volumes.
This library includes of an adult- and a child library sector, a reading room and a video cassette- and DVD store. There are 2 computers with internet usage and you can photocopy your papers.
This institute organises the programmes of the village: Village-day, Grape harvet festival, Christmas ceremony, Culture-day concert,, national celebrations, anniversaries and commemorates.

Health services
The inhabitants are supplied by the family doctor’s surgery, the dentist’s and the pharmacy.
Our family doctor is Dr Czók Zoltán, the dentist is Dr Lefter Piroska who’ s got a modern dentist’ s surgery.
In our village there is a health visitor and a children welfare service.

Social services
For the old people there is a really big help , this is the farm warden’s service, it works in 2 areas. They carry their lunch, their medicine, and helpgiving when they need a really urgent help.


Andrástermál Kft.
This company’s owner is the government, which gives our water and it operates our thermal bath and the camping.
The camping and the bath is in the minddle of our village, it takes place around 20.000 m2 park. The water in the bath consists of iron and it has got a high curative power.
This power is good for rheumatical problems, locomotor diseases and gynaecological problems.
In the area of the bath there is a thermal pool, a swimming pool with stretch of water and waterspinning system, there’s a child pool, and a great 3 lines slipway.
In the beautiful park you can play table tennis, billiard, there is a playground and some swings.
In the area of the camping next to the campsites, the wooden houses are waiting for the guests. This camping has got 3 stars and it’s wide range of services calls back the people year by year
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IPA park
This is the International Police Association’s memory park, in which a statue was established about Arthour Troop, who was the founder of the police association.
In the August of 1998. was the laying of the foundation stone of the memory park and after that in 2000.it was inaugurated by Stuchlik László.

Truffle Museum
You can find it under the earth, this is the truffle. This is not just a gastronomical epicureanism, but it is a natural curiosity, too.
The collection is famous all around Europe and it shows rarity for the curious people.
This is the first Hungarian Truffle Museum which is the second museum in Europe.
It was founded by Stuchlik László.

Parks, statues
The statue of the World War I.
It was made by Kisfaludi Strobl Zsigmond in 1926. for the 144 hero people who were killed in the war.
The statue of the World War II.
It was produced by Csíkszentmihályi Róbert, and it was inaugurated in 12nd of May, 1992.

Swallow house
This building was built in 2003 for the young couples in Jászszentandrás. This rented flat helps them to start their life together. This building there are 5 all comforts flats between 65-80 m2.

Maple
The honour of our village is the 100 years old maple. Presently it is keeping with the monument the memory of the revolution of 1848.



In the settlement’s life , the foundations, clubs and associations have got very important role .

Institutes of the government:
Primary School, Nursery School and First Grade Art School
Farm warden’s service
Andrástermál Kft.
Community Centre and Library
House of the Country

Institutes of health:
Family doctor service
Dentist’s
Pharmacy

Other institutes:
Cemetary

Major enterprises:
Ko-Bor Hús Kft.
Trans-Ker-Szolg. Kft.
Prince Oliver Bt.
Taxus 2004 Kft.
Éles Andor
Agrowerk co-operative society
Sylvain Kft.
Rehabit komplex Kft.
Fort-kom Kft.
Grain and laktofarm Kft.
Jazygian governor Kft.
Kókainé Balla Katalin
Önért-Közért
3 Kiss Bakery
Lambardova winery
Novák Károlyné’s garden tree school
Jászinvest Zrt.
Wood propertied Association
Jászfa-ker 2003 Bt.
Doma-Fruct Bt.