Erdőkertes

Until the 1st of July 1956 Erdőkertes belonged to Veresegyház, which's name first recorded in 1375 but then it appears as Ivacs, Ivacspuszta. Previous excavations showed that it existed long before Christ. In contrast, the history of Erdőkertes  only began at the beginning of the 20th century.

The first settler was a bourgeois from Budapest called Róheim Samu who in a little while cut most of the forests out and planted its area with grape wine. The good yellow clay gave an opportunity to build a brick factory, which produced high quality bricks, which from modern wine cellars and the houses of the dependants were built. The closeness of the more and more industrialised capital and the possibility of working attracted more dwellers. The environment with its forests to give wood and planes to be used as pasture land was suitable to make a living.

While in 1910 the number of dwellers was only 20, these figures raised to 400-500 until 1918, which meant 70-80 families. In 1910 the local commission of development was founded with Medve János, the owner of a little restaurant as a chairman. In 1916 the commitment made an application for the establishment of a railway station on the line between Rákospalota-Újpest and Vác. After the community built it, the authorities legalised it, and in 1918 the trains stopped in the new station called Kőhídkertek. In the same year on the 10th of October the commercial department allowed the settlement to be named Erdőváros.