Pusztaszer

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Pusztaszer

Pusztaszer is a village on the edge of the Pusztaszer Landscape Protection Area, northwest of Ópusztaszer. It is an important crossroads of the Hungarian occupation, as according to the legend of Anonymus it was the site of the first legislative assembly of the Hungarian nation. Here the leader Árpád and his companions stopped for 34 days and passed laws. However, during the Tatar-Turkish occupation, the settlement and its surroundings were repeatedly depopulated. Settlement from Kecskemét began again in the 1700s. Following the unsettled ownership of the area, the northern part was purchased by Kecskemét in 1828. From then on, the farming and public life in the area was supervised by a pusztabíró appointed by Kecskemét. Until 1881 it belonged administratively to Kecskemét, then due to the great distance between 1881 and 1934 the official affairs were conducted in Kistelek. The settlement became administratively independent on 1 January 1934. Most of the population lived on farms, and in the 1960s the settlement of the farm population in the village center began. Today, there are only about 130 inhabited farms on the outskirts of the village. The village's sights include the memorial column of the Seven Generals on the Árpád Hill. The Hungarian National Students' Union has erected a memorial column with portraits of the conquering leaders on the site of the Seri Assembly, on the occasion of the thousandth anniversary of the conquest of Hungary According to legend, the tents of the seven chieftains stood on the seven mounds in the vicinity of Pusztaszer. Other places of interest are the Pusztaszeri Landscape Protection Area and the Büdös-szék.