Biatorbágy

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Biatorbágy
Biatorbágy coat of arms
Biatorbágy (Hungary)
Biatorbágy
Biatorbágy
Basic data
State : Hungary
Region : Central Hungary
County : pest
Small area until December 31, 2012 : Budaörs
Coordinates : 47 ° 28 '  N , 18 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 28 '16 "  N , 18 ° 49' 31"  E
Area : 43.80  km²
Residents : 12,567 (Jan. 1, 2011)
Population density : 287 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code : (+36) 23
Postal code : 2051
KSH kódja: 08891
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Community type : city
Structure : Bia, Torbágy
Mayor : István János Tarjáni (Fidesz-KDNP)
Postal address : Baross Gábor u. 2 / a
2051 Biatorbágy
Website :
(Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal )

Biatorbágy ( German Wiehall-Kleinturwall ) is a Hungarian city ​​in Pest County .

Railway viaduct in Biatorbágy

The small town gained notoriety through an attack on the night express train Budapest - Vienna on September 13, 1931. The railway bomber Sylvester Matuska blew up the tracks of the 25 meter high railway viaduct as the train was passing it. As a result, the locomotive and six of the train's twelve cars fell into the depths. 24 people were killed.

The viaduct is no longer used for rail traffic today. The railway line and the station were moved north out of the village. The old route has been renatured and partially built on. There is a path on the viaduct and can be crossed on foot or by bike.

Until the evacuation (1944) and the final expulsion (1946) of the German population after the Second World War, the community was mainly shaped by Hungarian Germans and Danube Swabians from the 18th century . Until then they had retained their traditions and their German mother tongue, even if the official and school language was Hungarian. Small settlement houses, German inscriptions on buildings and a memorial in front of the Catholic Church still remind of this today. Most of the displaced people from Biatorbágy found a new home in Baden-Württemberg .

In recent years, a new industrial area and several outlets have emerged around the motorway junction .

Sándor-Metternich Castle in Biatorbágy

Town twinning

traffic

Biatorbágy is connected to the railway line from Budapest East Station to Tatabánya . Express trains run from here in the direction of Budapest, Győr, Hegyeshalom , Sopron and Szombathely .

The city is on National Road 1, with the old country road going around the center. At the city limits, the M1 motorway runs between Hegyeshalom and Budapest with the Biatorbágy junction.

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