Balatonrendes () is a village in

Veszprém county Veszprém ( hu, Veszprém megye, ; german: Komitat Wesprim (Weißbrunn)) is an administrative county (''megye'') in Hungary. Veszprém is also the name of the capital city of Veszprém county. Veszprém county Veszprém county lies in western ...

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

. It is one of the least populated locales on the northern shore of

Lake Balaton Lake Balaton () is a freshwater lake in the Transdanubian region of Hungary. It is the largest lake in Central Europe, and one of the region's foremost tourist destinations. The Zala River provides the largest inflow of water to the lake, and th ...

, having lost much of its population over the course of the 20th century due to

urbanization Urbanization (or urbanisation) refers to the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change. It is predominantly t ...

. One of the last permanent sources of work in the village, a local

quarry A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The operation of quarries is regulated in some jurisdictions to reduce their envi ...

, closed in the latter part of the 1900s. As with almost all townships near the Balaton, in the summer months it attracts vacationers, but due to its distance from the lake shore proper and its more elusive location, traffic is lower than average. Significant

viticulture Viticulture (from the Latin word for ''vine'') or winegrowing (wine growing) is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture. While the native territory of ''Vitis vinifera'', the common grape vine, ran ...

, due to the proximity of the

Badacsony wine region Badacsony wine region ( hu, Badacsonyi borvidék) is located in central Transdanubia, on the Northern shores of Lake Balaton, around mount Badacsony. Its area is approximately 1600 hectares. History Grapes were already cultivated in the area duri ...

, is present. Notably, its main street has been renovated and stands as a picturesque remnant of old-style rural Hungarian architecture. The etymology of the village's name comes from the combination of ''Balaton'' with the suffix ''-rendes'', which translates to "orderly" or "normal".

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Populated places in Veszprém County {{Veszprem-geo-stub