Town in Pest, Hungary
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Pilisvörösvár (German: Rotenburg or Werischwar) is a town in the Danube Bend region. 18 km north-west of Budapest. There are over 12,000 residents. Solymár (German: Schaumar) is a village next toward southwest one settlement with Pilisvörösvár. The population of this village over 9,000 people.
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Pilisvörösvár vasútállomás
Trains from Budapest Nyugati Railway Station. Located along the Esztergom-Budapest railway line.
Solymár vasútállomás
Trains from Budapest Nyugati Railway Station. The next stop is Pilisvörösvár.
Mű-hely Galéria
Collection of the works of the contemporary painter Gizella Czeglédi. Guide: by request, in English, German, Russian and Hungarian
Török kút
The Baroque, old water well is not in the same place as the new one, but the old place is marked, too
All Saints Church, Nagyboldogasszony, Mindenszentek Római katolikus templom
After the Turkish occupation, the first temple built using wood around 1690. The first stone church in 1705 was consecrated in the name of St. Philip and St. James the Apostle. Later the name was changed a couple of times, finally to Our Lady of Hungary. The Our Lady of Hungary is the patron saint of the Swabian majority parish church. The neo-classical style church build by a German master.
Művészetek Háza
This is the town's modern cultural center. Here placed in the second half of the 19th century a pub. Later, in 1929 it was rebuilt to a restaurant and extended with a stage. Since 1945 is a Culture Center.
Sváb Sarok
Since 2013, it is the city's newest event venue. This is a government-owned building (a former slaughterhouse and butcher shop, a grocery store, tobacco shop, dwelling house). The facility is intended using for temporary exhibitions, planned to present here some local ethnographic material, now stored in warehouses of Country House, and hold smaller outdoor events.
Stui Chapel, Pfeiffer Chapel, Hu: Maria-hilf kápolna, Pfeiffer-kápolna, Stui-kápolna
The chapel was built in 1773 Steinmillner Matyas. It has been renovated several times.
Szent Család templom
Built in the early 1990s. The interior of the church include the altar and the image of the altar, the stand reader designed by Dennis Perczel.
Erdei kápolna
Already in 1780 a chapel was here, which was very popular among the pilgrims. The present chapel was built in the 1840s, honored to Our Lady of Sorrows and the Fourteen Holy Helpers
Kálvária-kápolna
The first Calvary Chapel of Pilisvorosvar built around 1710 in the same place, the current chapel was built in the middle of the 19th century.
Zsidó temető
Before the Second World War, several dozen Jewish families lived Pilisvörösvárott and the surrounding villages, the graveyard of Lőcsei street served as their burial place. No people were buried here since the late 1940s. The graveyard is a monument of local importance with many old tombstones.
Lahmkruam Helytörténeti Emlékpark
The Local Historical Memorial Park established in the city's former brickyard site. The name of the area indicates original the utilization (Lahmkruam means in the Swabian: clay mine). Walkways, ponds and small islands were formed here. Based on the information boards (German, Hungrian), visitors can learn about the most important events in the history Pilisvorosvar, starting from colonization of the Germans, more than 300 years ago.
Bányász emlékpark
The memorial park was created in the central area of the former Mine Complex of Pilisvörösvár. Here is memorial of the big 1928s miners' strike Pilisvörösvári, a painted black (carbon imitating) stones filled coach,and miner symbols shaped by paving stones. A few steps away are the former officer's mine, mine administrative buildings, in one of them a miners' memorial room established,
Református templom
Here was an old farmhouse, which is converted into a church in 1950. Replaced the small house built on the site in the first half of 1980 a new church based Botzheim István's plans. A runic inscription wooden column with silhouette of Greater Hungary and stylized representation of the Holy Crown can be seen in the garden.
Tájház, Helytörténeti gyűjtemény
Local History Collection.
Szarkavár
There are still excavations and reconstructions nowadays but visitable. Ottoman style elements. The wooden tower (old tower), the front entrance, a crucial part of the walls and design of the superstructure of the castle fountain was renovated in 2005-2006.
Dr. Jablonkay István Helytörténeti Gyűjtemény
Located in a monument building. Historical, ethnographical, agricultural items of the area. Guided tours available: Hungarian, English, German, by booking: +36 70 7749303.
Evangélikus Templom
Római katolikus templom
This church was built between 1782-1785 in late baroque style
Egyházközségi gyűjtemény
Located in the former sexton house
Református templom
The church built in the 1980s replacing a temple which was located here, the interior is decorated with more than one hundred wood-panels painted with plant ornamentation, decorative painted pulpit, other sight of the church is a wooden belfry in the yard.
Hivatal Galéria
Local and municipality artists works for temporary exhibitions can be seen here.
Községi temető
Several big monument crosses, the ancient priestly tombs located in M plot, old tombstone collection before the funeral home.
Nieger-Valkó-kúria
It was a private museum until the 1980s.
Szent Anna-kápolna
origins in the early 19th century, and renovated in the 2000s
Fatimai kápolna
Built in 2009
Krisztus-szobor
It is made in "Sténeherrgott" - late Baroque style, probably in the last decades of the eighteenth century.
British Cemetery. Hu: Budapesti Háborús Temető, Brit Temető
It contains 173 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, all of them airmen whose graves were brought in from sites all over Hungary after the war, plus a single First World War burial. The cemetery also contains one French and more Polish War Graves.
Pest Megyei Műanyagipari Vállalat /PEMŰ/ 50 éves fennállásának emlékműve
Made using artificial stone and bronze. A low memorial, recalls a mile stone. The bronze part format a plaque shows a plastic processing machine tool erected in 2009.
Ancient Roman: Ad lucum felicem (Happy Grove)
The village houses till the 1950s, mostly built of adobe and mud, the Uradalmi (lit.Manor) House is one of them. Now here is the local historical collection in an exhibition hall (Hu:Uradalmi ház. Loc.:Templom tér 13., Phone: +36 26 374063, uradalmihaz@gmail.com). Klotildligeti Church and the statue of Ferenc Rákóczi II before it. (Hu: Loc.: Klotild tér 1., Phone: +36 30 9494028 — infopiliscsaba@gmail.com). Roman Catholic Parish Church, the single nave, front towered church dedicated to the Holy Virgin birth was completed in 1781. (Hu: Loc.:Templom tér 12., Phone: +36 26 375024 — infopiliscsaba@gmail.com). Kálvária hill with chapel (Hu: Loc.:Kálvária hill, Phone: +36 26 375024, infopiliscsaba@gmail.com). Csodásérmű Blessed Virgin Chapel (Hu: Loc.:Templom tér 14., Phone: +36 30 8411608, infopiliscsaba@gmail.com). Ancestor Park (Hu: Loc.:Garancsi út, Phone: +36 70 4563857). Do: Because the town is surrounded by forested hills: hills of the Pilis Mountains to the north and hills of the Budai Mountains to the south there are many walking, hiking trails.
Ördög-lyuk barlang, Solymári-barlang, Sojmári-ördögluk, Solymári zsomboly
An extensive cave system. Approximately three km long. It is possible for experienced spelunkers to explore the caves with a guide. Specifications: Length 5550m, Depth 78 m, Height 348m (above sea level). Location: Solymar, Zsiros Hill (which is part of the Buda Hills). Type: hydrothermal. The cave can be visited throughout the year, regardless of the weather, summer and winter. The temperature is 10°C, so pleasantly cool in summer, warm in winter. Map.
Rózsika-forrás
a popular tourist place. Picnic.
Apáczai Csere János Művelődési Ház és Könyvtár
built between 1905-1909, was a restaurant of a wealthy, local family. Over the library there is a theater, several smaller events room, a rehearsal room and a cellar club.
Emil Cukrászda
About seventy kinds of cakes and pastries
Gazdakör Vendéglő
Hungarian food. Air/Con. Capacity: forty persons.
Fetter Kisvendéglő
Swabian restaurant with outdoor terrace. Traditional Hungarian cuisine. Capacity: 60 seats inside plus eighty in the garden. Famous for its specialty: Schwarzwald's (Black Forest) stewed veal.
Rotburger Sörfőzde és Söröző
Covered garden section. Hungarian food. Capacity forty seats.
Aranykorona Hotel és Vendéglő
Gilde Étterem és Panzió
Ten rooms. Beauty salon, catering here. Shopping, fishing, hiking in nearby. Dental tourism, 50m away a small dental clinic. Restaurant Opening hours: Every day 12:00-23:00. In the center of Pilisvörösvár. Familiar surroundings. International and home-cooked meals.WiFi. Restaurant's capacity: sixty persons. Average prices. Spoken: German.
Gondola Panzió és Étterem
Seven double rooms and one apartment. The Pension offers spacious rooms with private bathroom, minibar and color TVs. Wifi/Wlan. Hunting and fishing facilities in nearby. Restaurant every day of the week open 11:00-22:00. Hungarian and Italian flavors with plenty of choice, self-service salad bar, summer terrace with BBQ.
Edelweiss Panzió
Eight rooms and one apartment. Breakfast room with buffet breakfast, fitness equipment, sauna, solarium and closed parking
Pilis Club Panzió
Family atmosphere, comfortable rooms. The area around town is the venue for mountain trips. Different hiking, cycling tours/paths in nearby. Fourteen rooms.
Wieszt László Vendégháza
apartments: 50-55m² in size. Capacity: ten persons.
ATM. Gas station (24h). Post office.
Free WiFi. Traded currencies: EUR, USD. ATM:24h.
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