Nagyveleg is located between Vértes and Bakony hills, it is 10 km far from Mór. You can approach the village from Mór or Bakonycsernye.

The first written records are known from 1230. It is one of the oldest Hungarian communities. The name of the village is probably come from Chief Velek (Veluk) who is mentioned many times by King Béla's unknown recorder and he was Árpád's most noble-minded soldier.
The name of Veleg is mentioned for the first time in 1230 in connection with reclaiming Miklós Csák's castles who was the younger brother of archbishop Ugrin Csák. The next written records can be read in Queen Elisabeth's commands derived from 1439.

According to Ulászló's letters Mátyás Hunyadi confirms Rozgonyi's heirs and their possession in 1458 in a document and the name of Nagy Velegh is also written there.

The names of Pál Marton and Balázs Vincze serfs from Velegh were recorded with others concerning the fight against Crusaders in 1498.

In 1691 King Lipót I donated the lordship of Csókakő with its all dependents to Baron János Hochburg. After filing out of Turkish, 40 families were invited here, Slovaks from Trencsén, Hungarians from the counties of Vas and Veszprém being promised that they were allowed to practice their religion freely.

The Lutheran Church in Nagyveleg was founded officially in 1746 when the church was built there you can still see in the village. There were 87 families, 2/3 of them were Hungarian and 1/3 of them were Slovak. There were 584 Hungarians and 30 Slovaks in the village in 1859. The foundation-stone of the church was grounded on 4th August in 1784 with the permission of King Joseph II and was consecrated on 8th December.

The whole village was burned in 1796. The church, the Lutheran school and the houses of the teacher and the pastor were rebuilt in 1796 permitted by a national collection.
In the 1800s the lord of the village got into debt then the Grünfeld family bought the castle.

The inhabitants of Nagyveleg played an active role in the war of independence of 1848-49. Lutheran pastor János Rajcsányi and judge Ádám Farkas became the members of the Commission of County. Nagyveleg provided 67 militiamen.

The Lutheran Church maintained a common school from 1746 to 1945 which was operated as a primary school after nationalisation.

The inhabitants of the village suffered from both World Wars and it was a scene of serious fights. There is a marble plaque for the memory of the heroic dead in the church and the cemetery.

Development of the village started after the World War I.

The Grünfeld family built houses for servants and as they were Catholics, they built an appropriate church for their religion in the village, too.

With the purpose of processing his own products Pál Grünfeld established a distillery that gave work for many people in the village.
During World War II it was destroyed and the equipments were carried away.

The furnishment of the castle was totally destroyed in World War II.

You can read more details about the village here.