The name Nagyesztergár preserves the Hungarian version of a word of Slavic origin meaning carver, planer, or turner.

According to family records, Ányos Boldizsár gave the Esztergár partial estate as a pledge to György Marczaltőy in 1589.

After that, the village is no longer mentioned as a inhabited place, except in 1632, when it was listed in the Turkish treasury defter (tax census) with an income of 6,000 akce as an accessory of Palota Castle.

In 1593, Grand Vizier Szinán occupied the castles of Palota and Veszprém, then in 1594 he marched across the Bakony to besiege Győr.

Ferdinánd Esterházy's castle for Imren Csesznek, one of which was part of the Bakics estate in Esztergár, which returned to the king.

The count agreed to the agreement on two conditions: Ányos should pay the HUF 220 he paid for the estate, and the young man should go to the war of Austrian succession in his place as a noble insurgent.

It was then that the heroic work of breaking up and populating a wild, scrubby and wooded mountainous area that brought little profit began.

Ferenc Ányos set out to break up and populate the Esztergár wilderness without reserves that would provide financial security.

Ferenc Ányos could only count on internal migration, immigrants looking for a new place in the hope of even better opportunities, but already staying in the country, for whom he tried to create favorable conditions.

In his establishment certificate issued in 1751, he promised the construction of 20 farmhouses, the payment of extermination costs, two years of tax exemption and free movement.

The daily productive work of the farmers of Nagyesztergár was closely intertwined with the Bakony forest surrounding their settlement.

The collection of the fruits of the natural vegetation, as well as the catching and hunting of game, provided food raw materials, but they also got fuel from the forest.

The first inhabitants of Nagyesztergár were also representatives of these industries requiring special expertise: coal burner József Janisch and ash maker Mihály Salczburger and his wife.

The cavity left inside was filled with flammable material (chips, wood waste) and ignited through the top.

It was sold packaged in small bags, which were bought by blacksmiths and locksmiths for annealing metals, and housewives for ironing.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Nagy and Kisesztergár (later Kardosrét) part of the settlement separated as a result of the distribution of property by members of the Ányos family.

Before the 1880s, emigration occurred only sporadically in Hungary, but at the turn of the century we can already speak of a mass movement of people, which can be traced back mainly to economic reasons.

The majority of Hungarian emigrants were agricultural workers and dwarf landowners, who (unlike other nations) did not travel with the intention of permanently settling abroad.

Their general idea was to collect capital in America, which would then enable them to establish some kind of independent existence after returning home.

An important city for emigration was Jaraguá do Sul, located in the state of Santa Catarina in Brazil, where part of the colonization began.

Those whose own possessions were not sufficient for subsistence took advantage of the opportunities provided by the forest: they burned charcoal and made wooden tools.

During the Second World War, the SS recruitments of the German army also meant losses, primarily among the younger generations.

For them, the displacement was a tragedy, they had to go into the uncertain unknown, they had to leave the result of the work of generations, the house, land, furniture, everything except the allowed fifty kilos.

The exchange of population, which itself represented a strong, traumatic effect, was essentially accompanied by another trauma, the introduction of the Soviet-type system and its imposition on the village.

A traditional peasant society functioned and reproduced for a good two hundred years after the settlement, the occupation of the majority of the population was agriculture.

On the other hand, according to the 1970 census data, the majority of the people of Greater Esztergária already work in industry (primarily in the Dudar mine), the proportion of active earners and dependents employed in agriculture is only twenty percent.

After that, however, there is stagnation and slow weight loss, the reasons of which can be, among other things, the decrease in births, the increase in the number of deaths and the migration of young people to the city.

Its highest point on the western side of the Cuha valley is 443 m, the lowest is 335 m at the outlet of the Gaja stream, while its inland center is 418 m above sea level.

Around the inland area, there is an Oligo-Miocene detrital assemblage under the loess and, in smaller patches, Eocene limestone, which sometimes reach the surface.

Larger patches of forest can be found in two places, southeast of the interior and northwest of the border, around Cuha Valley.