FILIPOWA HISTORY PAGE
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FILIPOWA HISTORY ...
Source: MAGYARORSZÁG VÁRMEGYÉ VÁROSI, edited by BOROVSZKY SAMU DR. 1909
Szentfülöp. In the district Hódság, upper Hódság to Northeast; it's
earlier name was Filipova. It is referred at first by a document written in the
age of King 3rd Bela. (1173 - 1196)
"terra monasterii sancti Phillipi" (Latin: "the field of the St.
Phillip monastery") It was here that a monastery was ordained to the honor
of St. Phillip, but did not retain the name at all times and was not mentioned
by the Turkish tax collectors. The priests never having to pay taxes. (Perhaps,
it was a monastery only, without a village and containing servant houses)
In 1693 the village Filipoveselo (Slavic name, for "field of Phillip")
was given by the deputy king (special Hungarian office, similar to the vice
president of the USA) to the lieutenant of Fort Fülek (today in Slovakia)
called János Zsoinai Gombkötő and István Rimai who populated this
uninhabited area. In 1652, it was tenured by Ferenc Wesselényi, with the name
Filepfalu. (Phillip village) There were seven houses at this time. At
1655, it was tenured to Adam Wesselényi, the name given, village of Fülepi
being the Wesselényi family were barons. In 1737 a cow trader from Eszék (the
daily Osijek in Croatia) and in 1755 a man, called István Nagy rented the
fields. In 1742 the name Filipova was written - puszta. (prairie)
By 1763 it began to be populated by Anton Cothmann with German families and the
next spring 20 houses were built. The soil was very suitable for green fields
and for plough land, but there weren't many trees (therefore called "puszta")
the trees being not far from the forest of the Archbishopery Bács, so the
village rented part of the forest. The village population growing with 75 German
families in 60 houses. The verge of the village is 4052 moons. (one acre is
0,703 moon) The documents of 1801, told of 257 peasants and 15 cotters in 272
houses.
The Church, what is here, was built in 1804 on an older church's base, for the
honor of Philip and Jacob, the apostles and records are from 1763. A community
of the village built a classroom for the nuns, called "Our Lady"
(Maria Virgin) in 1903 for girls.
A stamp of the village was developed at 1790-91, inside a man dressed in a long
garment, who has a stick in his right hand and later a "bishop-cap" on
his head. In 1863 a great fire devastated in the village.
By the 1900 census there lived 3593 persons in 535 houses; 3478 Germans, 75
Hungarians, 15 daily Belarus and Ukraines, 9 Serbs, 9 Slovakians, 7 others.
Religion: 3550 Roman Catholic, 21 Lutheran, 14 Greek Catholic, etc. The verge of
the community today is 5446 moons. It has a steam mill, butter factory, and a
cooperative of milk producers. The village has three savings banks, Post Office,
telegram office and railway station.
Translation by: Lajos Reich