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Taliándörögd

(Veszprém County)

The settlement’s coat-of-arms goes back to the coat-of-arms of the members of the Tallián family of Vizek, who used to own Taliándörögd in the 18th century.

The settlement’s coat-of-arms can be described as follows:

Shield erect and azure, its base is rounded. Issuing from a base vert the figure of a Hungarian warrior is borne, armed argent and habited gules. The figure of the warrior is not holding the common emblem of the flag of crusaders in his hand, but he has a rare plant of the region, the so-called pheasant’s eye in it. The settlement’s coat-of-arms described above refers to the historical past of the village and to the uninterruptedness of history, and, at the same time it also symbolises the inhabitants’ current ambitions and their harmonious co-existence with nature.

The area of Taliándörögd has been inhabited for a long time. Traces of a Roman settlement were discovered by archeologists in the outer fields of the village. The first written mention of Dörögd goes back to a document of 1249, an official document, which identified the borders of the land possessions of the bishop of Erek. Drugd, as it was then called, was a settlement inhabited by members of the nobility. In the Middle Ages int he area of present-day Taliándörögd there were four settlements. These included Felső-dörögd, Alsó-Dörögd, Imár and Ráskó. All four settlements could boast their own churches. The name and the life of the members of the Dörögdi family have always been closely linked to the history of the settlement. Felső-Dörögd, Alsó-Dörögd and Imár belonged to the family possessions of the Dörögdi family. In 1548 the village got burnt down by the Turks and it remained uninhabited until as late as 1718. The new village was not built up in the area of the former one, but it was rebuilt on a new site. After the period of the Turkish Conquest several families shared the ownership of the four villages in the area. When the male line of the Dörögdi family died out,, the ownership went down to Colonel Ferenc Tallián of Vizek and his wife. The name of present-day Taliándörögd goes back to Ferenc Tallián of Vizek and it was given to the settlement so as to differentiate it from medieval Tóth-dörögd, a settlement called Ódörögd puszta today.

In 1745 the majority of the inhabitants belonged to the Lutheran faith. In 1760 Mrs. Ignác Tallián expelled the Lutheran preacher from the settlement. In 1773 Taliándörögd was inhabited by people who belonged to various religious denominations. This is why the village has three different church buildings today.