For those who live far away, the place name Söréd probably sounds unfamiliar, but it has become a concept for many in Székesfehérvár and other settlements of Fejér County. Since the early 1980s, disabled children and young people have been vacationing in the small village near Székesfehérvár, in the southwestern foreground of the Vértes Mountains.
The strip-plot settlement with barely 500 inhabitants is located 18 km from Székesfehérvár. It is only 8 km from the center of the famous Mór wine region and the town of Mór. Only a few kilometers towards Mór is Csókakő, the grape growing and holiday village located directly at the foot of Vértes. The village offers a very nice view of the medieval castle ruins of Csókakő towering over the village and the Vértes mountain range.
According to a certificate from 1523, Söréd was already a temple village. The medieval settlement was located slightly north of the present one and was destroyed during the long Turkish rule. The neighborhood was freed from Turkish rule in 1688. From 1695, the village received a pastor from the Capuchin monastery in Mór, and from 1744, from Bodajk. The Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint Michael was built in 1813-1814.
The main street of the village, Rákóczi út, can be reached from the main road 81 via a short access road. The XVIII. since the 19th century, the center of the village has been located in its central axis. The mayor's office, the doctor's office, the cultural center, the kindergarten and the Roman Catholic church of St. Michael, built in 1952 on the site of the destroyed old one, are located here. In 1932, an obelisk was erected in the square behind the church for the heroic dead of World War I. In addition, in 1994, commemorative plaques were erected for the II. In memory of the victims of World War.
The building used by the Teljes Élet Szociális Alapítvány (Complete Life Social Foundation) is located directly next to the church for vacations for young people with physical and cumulative disabilities.
