Piliscsaba

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Piliscsaba
Piliscsaba Coat of Arms
Piliscsaba (Hungary)
Piliscsaba
Piliscsaba
Basic data
State : Hungary
Region : Central Hungary
County : pest
Small area until December 31, 2012 : Pilisvörösvár
District since 1.1.2013 : Pilisvörösvár
Coordinates : 47 ° 38 '  N , 18 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 38 '1 "  N , 18 ° 49' 37"  E
Height : 210  m
Area : 17.21  km²
Residents : 8,187 (Jan 1, 2011)
Population density : 476 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code : (+36) 26
Postal code : 2081
KSH kódja: 07144
Structure and administration (as of 2020)
Community type : city
Mayor : András Farkas (Fidesz-KDNP)
Postal address : Kinizsi Pál utca 1-3
2081 Piliscsaba
Website :
(Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal )

Piliscsaba (German: Tschawa ) is a Hungarian small town in the county Pilisvörösvár in Pest County .

geography

Piliscsaba is located in central Hungary, about 25 kilometers northwest of the capital Budapest in a valley between the Pilis Mountains and the Buda Mountains . The district town of Pilisvörösvár is seven kilometers and Esztergom about 20 kilometers away. The center of Piliscsaba is about 200 meters above sea level, the surrounding hills reach up to 450 meters in the municipality.

history

The present city area has been settled since the Bronze Age, which is proven by archaeological finds of the urn field culture from today's Calvary. Between the 2nd and 4th centuries there was probably a Roman dwelling in the area of ​​today's Piliscsaba.

The place was first mentioned as Csaba in 1263 . The name was spelled slightly differently on medieval documents, but the municipality only received the addition Pilis- at the beginning of the 18th century. From 1274 the place belonged to the monastery of the Dominican Order on what is now Budapest's Margaret Island . At the beginning of the Ottoman occupation of Hungary in the 16th century, Csaba was destroyed and only settled again in the 1690s. In the 18th century Slovak settlers first settled in Piliscsaba , and during Maria Theresa's reign also Danube Swabian settlers. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Germans made up the largest population group in town.

In 1808 Csaba came into the possession of the then Palatine of Hungary, Joseph of Austria . After his death, his son Joseph Karl Ludwig inherited a large estate on which he built the Klotildliget villa district named after his wife Clotilde , which initially attracted mainly officials from the capital. Starting with the Lazarist order, five monastic orders also settled in Piliscsaba from 1898. Joseph Karl Ludwig gave the Lazarists his palace in memory of his late son Ladislaus , which from then on functioned as a monastery.

Towards the end of World War II , the Soviet Red Army entered Piliscsaba on December 25, 1944. In 1946 a large part of the German-speaking population was expelled to southwest Germany , and in the following year many Slovak residents also emigrated to Czechoslovakia . In return, Hungarians from Transylvania settled in Piliscsaba.

On the site of the former barracks, which was used by the Hungarian army from the end of the 19th century and by the Soviet army from 1957 to 1990 , a new campus of the Péter Pázmány Catholic University, designed by Imre Makovecz , was built after the political change . In 1994 the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Budapest moved to Piliscsaba.

Piliscsaba has had town charter since 2013.

Town twinning

Attractions

  • Roman Catholic Church Szűz Mária , built in 1728 in baroque style
  • Szűz Mária Roman Catholic Chapel , built in 1898, opposite the Catholic Church
  • Reformed church in the Klotildliget district, built in 1939
  • Stefaneum , main building of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Péter Pázmány Catholic University, built in 1995 according to plans by Imre Makovecz
  • Dévényi Antal-kilátó lookout tower on the top of Nagy-Kopasz (447 m)

  • Szűz Mária Chapel

  • Reformed Church, Klotildliget

  • Stefaneum

  • Dévényi Antal-kilátó

traffic

The 10-es főút , which connects the city with Pilisvörösvár and Dorog , runs through Piliscsaba . The city is connected to the Budapest-Nyugati - Esztergom railway every half hour (as of 2020) . In addition to the Piliscsaba train station, there are three other stops in the city ( Pázmáneum , Klotildliget and Magdolnavölgy ). In addition to the direct trains from Budapest-Nyugati to Esztergom, Piliscsaba is connected with regional trains from Budapest's Angyalföld station.

Piliscsaba is crossed by the Országos Kéktúra long-distance hiking trail , which leads from the Pilis Mountains to the Buda Hills.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Piliscsaba  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History on the website of the city of Piliscsaba (Hungarian)
  2. ^ Piliscsaba in the course of political developments. In: Johann Hauck: Tschawa-Piliscsaba. 2nd Edition. Heimatverein Piliscsaba, Budapest 2000. ( online )
  3. ↑ Jonathan Glancey: Ideal dome exhibition. The Guardian, February 9, 2004, accessed April 9, 2020.