Szűcsi is a village in

Heves County Heves county (, ) lies in northern Hungary, between the right bank of the river Tisza and the Mátra and Bükk mountains. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest (county), Pest, Nógrád (county), Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and ...

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, beside the Ágó creek, under the

Mátra The Mátra () is a mountain range in northern Hungary, between the towns Gyöngyös and Eger. The country's highest peak, Kékestető (1014 m), belongs to this mountain range. Formation Pre-volcanic formations The formation of the Mátra ...

mountain ranges. As of the 2022 census, it has a population of 1425 (see Demographics). The village is located 9.4 km from (Nr. 81) the

Hatvan–Fiľakovo railway Hatvan– Fiľakovo railway is a non-electrified railway connecting Hatvan, Hungary with Fiľakovo, Slovakia. Once a major connecting railway, the line currently sees only local Regionalbahn service and local goods traffic. It is double tracke ...

line, 9.9 km from the main road 21 and 21.4 km from the M3 motorway. The closest train station with public transport is in the village of Zagyvaszántó.

History

Artifacts from the late

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and the 9th century were found within the boundaries of the settlement. Its first documented mention occurred in 1267 in the form ''Swch''. In the 15th century, it was listed under the names ''Zeuch, Zewchy, Zwchy'', owned by the Szücsy family, and then King Zsigmond donated it to . In 1527 it became the property of Zsigmond Ráskay. The village church was built by Károly Ráby in 1828. The population was mostly engaged in

viticulture Viticulture (, "vine-growing"), viniculture (, "wine-growing"), or winegrowing is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture. While the native territory of ''Vitis vinifera'', the common grape vine ...

. Two

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mines were opened in the second half of the 1950s, but they were closed after the 1959 accident in which 31 people died. The notable native of the village is the poet József Bajza (1804–1858).

Demographics

According the 2022 census, 92.7% of the population were of Hungarian ethnicity, 2.3% were

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and 7.2% were did not wish to answer. The religious distribution was as follows: 50.7%

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, 1.7%

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, 7.8% non-denominational, and 37.1% did not wish to answer. 5 people live in two outskirts close to the village. Population by years:

Politics

''Mayors since 1990'': * 1990–1998: Károly Kulcsár (until 1994 independent, but after that MSZP) * 1998–2008: István Szekeres (independent) * 2008–2019: István Berta (independent) * 2019–: Krisztina Kovács, Mrs. Hordós (until 2024 independent, but after that

Fidesz–KDNP Fidesz–KDNP Party Alliance (), formerly also known as the Alliance of Hungarian Solidarity (), is a right-wing national conservative political alliance of two political parties in Hungary, the Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (Fidesz) and ...

)

References

Populated places in Heves County {{Heves-geo-stub