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by István Molnár, 5 March 2003
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Csatka is a village in Komárom-Esztergom county in Hungary
near to Town of Kisbér (20 km
south-west) at the North-Eastern edge of the Bakony Mountains.
The village has got 317 inhabitants (2001 census), all of them
are Hungarian. Neighbouring settlements are Súr, Ácsteszér,
Réde, Bakonyszentkirály and
Bakonyoszlop villages.
The first mention of the settlement is from 1326. Near the
village there was a monastery founded in 1361. At the time of the
Turkish wars the settlement was devastated in 1543. Csatka was
resettled with Hungarians in 1724. In 1910 Csatka was a village
in the Zirc district of Veszprém County. Number of its
inhabitants in 1910: 730; 728 (99,7%) Hungarian and 2 (0,3%)
other by mother tongue, 692 (94,8%) Roman Catholic, 23 (3,2%)
Calvinist and 12 (1,6%) Jew by religion. In 1950 the village
annexed to Komárom county
Description of the Coat of Arms: The Coat of Arms of the village
is a standing triangular gold shield with a blue stake. In the
gold field there is three green hills, in the green field of the
hills there is a silver spring from a gold fountain marked with a
gold crucifix. This symbol relates to the holy spring of the
village. The red shield with a silver lion was the Coat of Arms
of the Csák family, the red shield with three silver stakes was
the Coat of Arms of the Héder clan. The Csák Family was the
first landlord, Palatine Kont from the Héder clan was the famous
landlord of the village. In the blue stake there is a gold arm
holding a gold crosier. This symbol relates to the medieval
monastery. Below the shield on a gold stripe there is the name of
the village: 'CSATKA'.
The flag is white with two - blue and gold - stripes on the
flying edge, on the white field there is a Coat of Arms of the
village. Ratio 1:2.
Sources: Photo of the Coat of Arms and description from
the Mayor's Office of the municipality, historical datas from
<www.terseg.hu/bakalja/csatka>
(only in Hungarian).
István Molnár, 5 March 2003