Vince Bereczky, the grave of the last gold miner from Csallóköz

The gold that was produced in the footsteps of the fairies was soon discovered by the conquering Hungarians. He brought with him the art of gold panning, or as they said in Csallóköz, the art of goldsmithing, as an ancestral occupation, probably from his ancestral homeland on the Don, and he probably learned it from the Alans living in the vicinity of his ancestral homeland. From them he learned about gold and the tricks of gold panning. This somewhat romantic-sounding, but very laborious occupation was considered a separate craft along the two Danube rivers until the 1920s. ; The memory of the former gold panning places in Csallóköz is still preserved today in the names of their villages, e.g. Csallóközaranyos or the Aranyüllő dűlő in Eperjes. The people of Kolozsnéma and Szapi were also famous gold panners at one time. The last known gold panner was Vince Bereczky* in Szapon, who died around the mid-1960s. The goldsmith's tools are kept by the Csallóközi Museum. ; ; * The author incorrectly states the name Berec Vince in the publication.