Egyházaskér – Verbica

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Vrbica

According to a charter in which Egyházaskér was mentioned in 1247, the settlement was located between Padé and Tiszaszentmiklós as the property of the Csanád clan. However, it was destroyed during the Turkish rule.
When Lőrinc Marczibányi bought the estate in Csóka in 1782, he also bought the nearby deserted lands: Czernabara, Imretelek, Monostor, Terján and Verbicza. In 1789, he settled families of tobacco gardeners from around Szeged in Verbicza, which, after becoming a settlement from a deserted land, in 1888 was renamed Egyházaskér, in the course of the Hungarianization of the geographical names.
Its current population consists of the descendants of the tobacco gardeners of Szeged and the onion growers of Makó, who, meanwhile, settled in Egyházaskér.