Hosszúhetény (, german: Hetting, Heting, Langheting) is the most populous village in

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, southwest

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, a significant centre of village tourism. It is located 18 kilometres northeast to

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, the county capital, in a valley between the feet of Zengő, the highest peak of the Mecsek mountains and the peak called Hármashegy. It has a population of 3424 (as of 1 January 2010) and an area of . The valley has been inhabited since the Stone Age. Two other nearby villages belong to the administration of Hosszúhetény: Püspökszentlászló and Kisújbánya. Located in an environmentally protected area, a special microclimate producing rare flower species like '' Paeonia officinalis ssp'', among picturesque mountains, the three villages are popular among tourists who arrive from all parts of Hungary and abroad. One of the main sites is the arboretum of the episcopal castle in Püspökszentlászló. Tourism gives an increasing portion of the villagers' revenues after the decline of coal mining which flourished in the region between the 1950s and 1990.

NATO radar

In the 2000s the Hungarian government wanted to build a

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radar station on the top of the Zengő, but the plan foundered in 2005 on fierce resistance from the inhabitants of Hosszúhetény and nearby

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and environmentalist groups including Greenpeace. Mecsek magyaro 1

People

* Bertalan Andrásfalvy, politician, ethnographer * Gyula Bocz, sculptor * Zsuzsa Deák, graphic artist *

Alajos Degré Alajos Degré ( Lippa, Hungary (today in Romania), January 6, 1819 – Budapest, November 1, 1896) was Hungarian lawyer, legal historian, author and one of the key figures of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Life He was born to a middle-class, ...

, jurist * Mária Fischer, writer * Tamás Herbert, environmentalist * Károly Hetényi Varga, writer :hu:Hetényi Varga Károly

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Hosszúhetény is twinned with: *

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* Hetin ( hu, Tamásfalva),

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* Săvădisla ( hu, Tordaszentlászló),

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* Alfdorf,

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