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 describ ...
,
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, Croa ...
. 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 i ...
) 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
Twinning (making a twin of) may refer to:
* In biology and agriculture, producing two offspring (i.e., twins) at a time, or having a tendency to do so;
* Twin towns and sister cities, towns and cities involved in town twinning
* Twinning inst ...
with:
*
Herbrechtingen
Herbrechtingen () is a town in the district of Heidenheim in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is situated on the river Brenz, 7 km south of Heidenheim, and 28 km northeast of Ulm.
Twin towns – sister cities
Herbrechtin ...
, 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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