Pomáz (german: Paumasch) is a small town in Pest County,

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. It is located on the HÉV commuter train line from Budapest to

Szentendre Szentendre () is a riverside town in Pest County, Hungary, between the capital city Budapest and Pilis Mountains, Pilis-Visegrád Mountains. The town is known for its museums (most notably the :hu: Szentendrei Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, Open- ...

Teje.

Sights

Pomáz is famous for its

Serbian Orthodox The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. The majority of the population in ...

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. Just as in nearby Szentendre, a Serbian community existed in the town since the time of the Ottoman presence in Eastern Europe. There are also a

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and a

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church in the town. The town also features the Teleki-Wattay castle, built in 1773 in baroque style, but extensively renovated in the second half of the 19th century. After the

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, it was converted to an

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, and successively a child-care institute; in the early 21st century it was renovated once again under the EU

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programme, and became a venue for

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projects, known as the Choral Castle.

Notable people

The Teleki family, which owned the castle, counted among its members controversial prime minister

Pál Teleki Count Pál János Ede Teleki de Szék (1 November 1879 – 3 April 1941) was a Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1920 to 1921 and from 1939 to 1941. He was also an expert in geography, a un ...

(in office 1920-1921 and 1939–1941). *

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, (1856–1924), Rabbi, expert in the negotiations to the

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, 1919 *

Andreas Alföldi András (Andreas) Ede Zsigmond Alföldi (27 August 1895 – 12 February 1981) was a Hungarian historian, art historian, epigraphist, numismatist and archaeologist, specializing in the Late Antique period. He was one of the most productive 20th-c ...

(1895–1981), historian *

Sándor Egervári Sándor Egervári (born 15 July 1950) is a Hungarian football manager. He attended the University of Physical Education in Budapest and qualified as a football coach in 1983. He has completed the UEFA A and B course and as well as the pro lic ...

(b. 1950), football manager *

Gyula Glykais Gyula Glykais (9 April 1893 – 12 June 1948) was a Hungarian fencer. He won a gold medal in the team sabre event at the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also known as Lo ...

(1893–1948), fencer *

Ádám György Ádám György (; born 28 January 1982) is a Hungarian pianist. György started his music studies at the age of four. While studying under Katalin Halmagyi, he was accepted to the Béla Bartók Conservatory of Budapest in 1994. György won the N ...

(b. 1982), pianist

Twin towns – sister cities

Pomáz is twinned with: *

Krzywiń Krzywiń (german: Kriewen) is a town in west-central Poland in the Kościan County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, located at the Obra canal. History Krzywiń was first referred to in scripts as ''Crivin'' in 1181. But it was not until 1237 that ...

, Poland *

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, Germany

References

Populated places in Pest County Serb communities in Hungary {{Pest-geo-stub