The tomb of the Šoljmoš family would have suffered the same fate as the tomb of the landowner Rohonczi if it had not been entrusted to the family and relatives of the late Dr. Bela Farkaš in 1980, who was buried there that year. Thanks to this change of ownership, the tomb is well-maintained and today represents, just as it did in its time, an ornament of the Catholic cemetery in Novi Bečej.
The Šoljmoš family had a large agricultural estate just outside Novi Bečej towards Kuman, on the right side, from the Kuman road to the Tisa River. Along the Tisa, there was a whole little village of the estate with the manor and other buildings (14 buildings) of the Šoljmoš economy. This estate was acquired by their ancestor through the female line, Đula Urban, as a dowry for his wife, the granddaughter of Klara Šišanji. It was a large estate of about 700 juts of land, with particularly beautiful brick buildings covered with tiles and an exceptional grove that surrounded the lovely manor. All of this was located right by the dolm on the bank of the Tisa, where today the confluence of the Danube-Tisa-Danube Canal flows out of the Tisa near Novi Bečej.
The estate had about sixty juts of vineyards and its own glasshouse (greenhouse) where vegetables were grown and delivered to customers in Szeged, Budapest, Graz, and Vienna, and it also reached Germany.
One of the descendants, Elemer Šoljmoš, built a beautiful manor in the center of Novi Bečej on the Tisa quay. He was so beloved by everyone that he was considered a true symbol of Novi Bečej. Unfortunately, it was demolished because, according to the urban planner's concept, it had to give way to an architecturally modern Health Center.
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