Szücs - from 1954: Bakonyszücs - the first written mention of its name dates back to 1249 (Schelch), when it was part of the Ugod manor. According to the surviving documents, it came into the possession of the Koppán family during the conquest. Some sources assume that the central part of the village's calvary dates back to the time of the Koppány leader.
Opinions differ on the origin of the name: some claim that it derives from a family name, while others claim that the name is due to the fact that the village supplied the Ugo castle with sücsi products in the Middle Ages. It was once the property of the Kraków castle lords, then of the St. Mauricius Monastery, and finally, after a long legal dispute, of the Ugod manor.
At the end of the 15th century, it was the residence of the ecclesiastical judge of Bakonybél.
Already at the beginning of the last century, traces of the medieval robber castle of the Podmaniczki family were visible on its borders, in the part formerly known as Bakonyújvár Hill.
The village was depopulated at the beginning of the Turkish occupation in 1544.
In 1736–37, the Esterházy family settled German-speaking residents, including Bavarians, Württembergers, Austrians, Germans from Moravia and Bohemia, and Germanised Croats.
The village's population lived mainly from agriculture, but some also worked in the quarry on the slope of Kőris Hill, which was in operation until the mid-19th century and produced high-quality red marble. This marble was used to make several stone carvings of the local Roman Catholic church, the base of the cross in front of the Calvary Chapel and the two lion statues guarding the entrance to the courtyard of the Papal Castle of Count Esterházyak.
After World War II, the village suffered a heavy loss of blood when more than a third of the population was deported to Germany. This is commemorated by the ash tree broken at the waist of the current village coat of arms, while the green branch growing from it symbolises a carefree new beginning as well as the resettlement of Hungarians from the Highlands and Garam Region, who also lost their homeland as part of the Slovak-Hungarian population exchange. The historical continuity is indicated by the image of the Calvary Chapel in the lower part of the coat of arms, which still lies in ruins.
The village's Roman Catholic church was built in 1786 by Károly Eszterházy, Bishop of Eger. The painting of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in the church was painted in 1789 by the Eger artist Ferenc Huszár. Also worth mentioning is the carved sacristy in the folk style. The pulpit, side altars and ciborium are classicist. The side altars depict St. Florian and St. Sebastian. In front of the church there is a memorial to the victims of the two world wars. Opposite the church is the late Baroque rectory from 1787, whose street façade is divided by arcades and whose courtyard façade has a walled-up arcade eaves.
After the Second World War, it was the seat of the district registrar for the Fenyőfő-Bakonykoppány-Szücs area, then a settlement with its own municipal council until 1962. Later, together with four other villages, it belonged to the municipal council with its seat in Ugod, and from 1990 it was again the seat of the district registrar with responsibility for the village of Bakonykoppány.
Since 1989, the settlement has been home to a home for the psychiatric rehabilitation of cancer patients. The facility offers nationwide spiritual care for patients suffering from cancer and other chronic diseases.
Bakonyszücs has a large border compared to its current population of just under 300 inhabitants. It also includes the highest point of the Bakony, the 709-metre-high Kőris-hegy, and on its side the Odvas-kői cave, known since the early Árpád era and still popular today. In the south-southwestern part of the municipal border, on the bank of the Gerence stream, Huszárokelőpuszta is also part of it as a remote inhabited place; the number of permanent residents in the part belonging to Bakonyszücs is 8 people.
The difference in altitude between the southern and northern ends of the village border is almost 500 metres.
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