 In 1770/71 Banat Swabian colonists from Germany settled here in a place called "Neuhoff".By the 1920 Treaty of Trianon, the area fell to the Kingdom of Romania.Under its Hungarian name "Bogdarigós", it was the site of a well-known health spa including a chapel and a way of the cross, which existed until the 1948 expropriations in the Socialist Republic of Romania.