Alcsútdoboz is a village in

Fejér county Fejér (, ) is an administrative county in central Hungary. It lies on the west bank of the river Danube and nearly touches the eastern shore of Lake Balaton. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Veszprém, Komárom-Esztergom County ...

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. Alcsútdoboz was created in 1950 by the merger of the municipalities of Alcsút (German: ''Altschutt'') and Vértesdoboz.

History

Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary Archduke Joseph Anton of Austria (; ; 9 March 1776 – 13 January 1847) was the 103rd and penultimate palatine of Hungary who served for over fifty years from 1796 to 1847, after a period as governor in 1795. The latter half of his service coin ...

had his country estate

Alcsút Palace Alcsút Palace (Hungarian: ''Alcsúti kastély'') is a former country house located in Alcsút, Hungary. It was the country estate of the Hungarian branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. History On 20 September 1795, Holy Roman Emperor ...

there. It was constructed by the renowned architect Mihály Pollack. It was destroyed during

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, with only the

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remaining.

Archduke Joseph August of Austria Archduke Joseph August Viktor Klemens Maria of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia (9 August 1872 – 6 July 1962) was a '' Feldmarschall'' (field marshal) of the Austro-Hungarian Army and for a short period head of state of Hungary. He w ...

, who was for a short period

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he head of state He or HE may refer to: Language * He (letter), the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads * He (pronoun), a pronoun in Modern English * He (kana), one of the Japanese kana (へ in hiragana and ヘ in katakana) * Ge (Cyrillic), a Cyrillic letter cal ...

being an embodiment of the State itself or representative of its international persona." The name given to the office of head of sta ...

of Hungary, was born in Alcsút.

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Viktor Orbán Viktor Mihály Orbán (; born 31 May 1963) is a Hungarian lawyer and politician who has been the 56th prime minister of Hungary since 2010, previously holding the office from 1998 to 2002. He has also led the Fidesz political party since 200 ...

was raised in Alcsútdoboz. His family owns nowadays the

Hatvanpuszta Hatvanpuszta is a historic manor house in Hungary, located near Alcsút, notable for its origins as part of a model farming operation established by Archduke Joseph of Austria, the Palatine of Hungary, in the 19th century. Originally serving a ...

manor house.

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Aerial photographs of Alcsútdoboz
Populated places in Fejér County {{Fejer-geo-stub