Fehérgyarmat

Fehérgyarmat, town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, the traditional center of the Someș plain. It was mentioned for the first time in a source written in the first third of the 14th century. Its first owners developed it into the economic center of their property. Since 1418, it had the status of a market town. It was owned by the Báthori family from Ecsed, so later the city became the property of the Transylvanian princely families.
. During the reign of the Transylvanian prince István Báthory, Gábor Bethlen, I. and II. György Rákóczi, the development of the city was considerable. At that time the colonial earthen castle was built, which never played a strategic role, which was destroyed by Emperor Lipót I, and whose memory is still preserved today under the name of the southern part of the main street, Tömöttvár Street. . The settlement, which suffered significant damage during the 1970 flood, received city status in 1978. The subsequent reconstruction and population growth due to people moving in can also be “thanked” to this flood.