Biatorbágy (german: Wiehall-Kleinturwall) is a town in
Pest County,
Budapest metropolitan area
The Budapest metropolitan area ( hu, budapesti agglomeráció) is a statistical area that describes the reach of commuter movement to and from Budapest and its surrounding suburbs. Created by Hungary's national statistical office HCSO to describe ...
,
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 has a population of 13,889 (2019).
Districts
* Bia (german: Wiehall)
* Torbágy (german: Kleinturwall)
History
On 13 September 1931 a demented man (
Szilveszter Matuska
Szilveszter Matuska (29 January 1892 – disappeared c. 1945) was a Hungarian mass murderer and mechanical engineer who made two successful and at least two unsuccessful attempts to derail passenger trains in Hungary, Germany and Austria in 1 ...
) blasted the train to
Vienna
en, Viennese
, iso_code = AT-9
, registration_plate = W
, postal_code_type = Postal code
, postal_code =
, timezone = CET
, utc_offset = +1
, timezone_DST ...
on the viaduct of Biatorbágy.
Sport
*
Biatorbágyi SE
Biatorbágyi Sport Egyesület is a professional football club based in Biatorbágy, Pest County, Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it i ...
, association football club
Twin towns – sister cities
Biatorbágy is
twinned with:
*
Herbrechtingen
Herbrechtingen () is a town in the Heidenheim (district), district of Heidenheim in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is situated on the river Brenz (river), Brenz, 7 km south of Heidenheim an der Brenz, Heidenheim, and 28 km ...
, Germany (1989)
*
Remetea, Romania (2001)
*
Kiti, Cyprus (2004)
*
Dolný Štál
Dolný Štál ( hu, Alistál, ) is a village and municipality in the Dunajská Streda District in the Trnava Region of south-west Slovakia.
Geography
The municipality lies at an altitude of 112 metres and covers an area of 29.997 km². It ha ...
, Slovakia (2012)
*
Velyka Dobron
Velyka Dobron ( uk, Велика Добронь, hu, Nagydobrony) is a village in Zakarpattia Oblast (province) of western Ukraine.
Geography
The village is located around 42 km south-east of Uzhhorod, and 23 km west of Mukachevo among ...
, Ukraine (2013)
Notable people
*
Ferenc Juhász (1928–2015), poet
*
Gyula Juhász (1930–1993), historian
*
Csaba Horváth (born 1971), canoeist
References
External links
* in Hungarian, English and German
Hungarian German communities
Populated places in Pest County
Budapest metropolitan area
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