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, Cr ...
. 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) blasted the train to
Vienna
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on the viaduct of Biatorbágy.
Sport
*
Biatorbágyi SE, association football club
Twin towns – sister cities
Biatorbágy is
twinned with:
*
Herbrechtingen
Herbrechtingen () is a town in the district of Heidenheim in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in E ...
, Germany (1989)
*
Remetea, Romania (2001)
*
Kiti, Cyprus (2004)
*
Dolný Štál, Slovakia (2012)
*
Velyka Dobron, 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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