In 1960 the communist government took the saint out of the name, and for thirty years the town was called Jur pri Bratislave — Jur near Bratislava. The vineyards were collectivised: private plots were merged into one cooperative, and terraces too narrow and too steep for a tractor stopped paying their way, so the higher ones were abandoned and scrub and woodland took them back. In 1952 the Šúr was declared a national nature reserve, which is why the alder swamp survived the very decades in which most wetlands of its kind in Central Europe were drained. The old street, meanwhile, was neither restored nor knocked down — and that indifference is the reason it is still there.V roku 1960 vyhodila komunistická vláda z názvu svätca a mesto sa tridsať rokov volalo Jur pri Bratislave. Vinice sa kolektivizovali: súkromné diely sa zlúčili do jedného družstva a terasy, príliš úzke a strmé pre traktor, prestali byť rentabilné, takže tie vyššie ľudia opustili a zarástli krovím a lesom. Šúr vyhlásili v roku 1952 za národnú prírodnú rezerváciu — a práve preto jelšový mokraďový les prežil tie isté desaťročia, v ktorých sa väčšina podobných mokradí v strednej Európe odvodnila. Starú ulicu zatiaľ nikto ani neobnovil, ani nezbúral — a tejto ľahostajnosti vďačí za to, že tu stále stojí.
