Sárbogárd () is a town 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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. The town is at the intersection of important railroad routes in Hungary: this is where electrified routes from Balaton and

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merge with non-electrified railways from Baja and

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. A double electrified track runs from Sárbogárd to

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allowing MÁV trains to provide quick access to the capital.

Twin towns — sister cities

Sárbogárd is twinned with: * Bene, Ukraine * Zetea, Romania

Notable people

* Zoltán Lengyel (1960–), politician * Géza Mészöly (1844–1887), Romantic painter * Lajos Májer (1956–1998), footballer *

Béla Jurcsek Béla Jurcsek (30 August 1893 – 1945) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Agriculture in 1944 and Minister of Welfare between 1944 and 1945. He was born into a landowning family. He attended secondary school in Nagykáro ...

(1893–1945), politician, Minister of Agriculture * Gábor Varga (1968–), politician * Zsuzsanna Kossuth (1817-1854), freedom fighter and nurse

Gallery

Sárbogárd-első-katonai-felmérése.jpg, The map of Sárbogárd from the First Military Mapping Survey of Austria Empire Sárbogárd-második-katonai-felmérése.jpg, The map of Sárbogárd from the Second Military Mapping Survey of Austria Empire Sárbogárd-harmadik-katonai-felmérése.jpg, The map of Sárbogárd from the 3rd Military Mapping Survey of Austria Empire

References

External links

* in Hungarian Populated places in Fejér County {{Fejer-geo-stub