Nagykeresztúr

By the 21st main road,on the turn to Lucfalva there is the Kis-Zagyva valley's first village. Shady  groves, flowered meadows, and aspen woods are surrounding the village. The Krakkó barren belongs to the village, its natural value is the "dancing salloon" the so-called Majális-barren(because festivals and other ceremonies were held here on May 1), and its unique flora and fauna. The vault of  baron Andor and Géza Podmaniczky is standing here in an ancient cemetary, where headstones can be seen from the year 1700.
The ecumenical church was bult up by public subscription in 1997, which was consecrated in 1996. The wooden belfry near to the church contains a knell from Kisfalud, and its sign says: "Anno 1322 Losoncz".

The Past

1 May 1999 a new settlement was founded with the name of Nagykeresztúr, from Kiskeresztúr, Kisfalud and Nagykeresztúr. This is the youngest settlement in the county.The little town was also  populated in the first half of the 13th century-in the ages of the Mongol Invasion- as the written evidences say. In the turkish subjection (in 1559) the turkish wallah of Buda's census said that the village Keresztúr became to Sah Bej Bin Turna's currier estate. After the occupation's broke off, just a few cottar-families were living here. In the next 150 years the settlement's past is a "white patch" in the cyclopaedias.

The bigger landlords: Count László Teleki, Count Gedeon Ráday, Baron Radvánszky and Count Pál Thoroczky. In the "Krakkó-barren" Baron Podmaniczky, in Kisfalud György Irsay, in Kiskeresztúr the Radvánszkys, and in Nagykeresztúr the Széchenyi-Szabó family was the owner. In 1873 was a big contagious disease (cholera) and in these times the village was getting empty. Just the dependants were lived in Krakkó, Kisfalud and Kiskeresztúr and Nagykeresztúr, they attended the manor. The landlord spent his time periodically in the manor-castle. From these objects only the Széchenyi-Szabó Vilmos castle which still standing in its ruins in Nagykeresztúr.

Nowadays Krakkó is deserted. Its important natural value's the "Dancing-salloon", the so-called "Majális-barren". In the past harvest festivals and other ceremonies were held here. In 1908 András Surányi from Kisfalud was erected a thanksgiving cross  in front of the turnout of Krakkó. Dr. Klára Peresi found it, who was searched for her great-grandparents and she renovated and consecrated it in 1990. It was carved by sand-stone, its 3.5 metres tall and the corpus on it weighs 1000 kilogrammes by cast-iron. Sándor Pintér, who searched the memories of Szécsény found some slovakian findings in the cemetary of Kisfalud.