Vecsés Wetschesch | |
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 The church | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
 Location of Pest county in Hungary | |
  Vecsés Location of Vecsés | |
| Coordinates:47°24′21″N19°15′53″E / 47.4057°N 19.2648°E /47.4057; 19.2648 | |
| Country |  Hungary |
| County | Pest |
| Area | |
• Total | 36.18 km2 (13.97 sq mi) |
| Population (2009) | |
• Total | 20,550 |
| • Density | 518.79/km2 (1,343.7/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 2220 |
| Area code | 29 |
Vecsés (pronounced[ˈvɛt͡ʃeːʃ];German:Wetschesch) is a town of 20,550 inhabitants inBudapest metropolitan area,Pest County,Hungary, situated adjacent toBudapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport.
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The village was first mentioned in records in 1318. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the region had a dense network of villages and extant documents mention it as an ecclesiastical place. In 1786 CountAntal Grassalkovich settled 50 families in Vecsés, who were mainlySwabian, and to a lesser extent Slovakian and Hungarian inhabitants from the surrounding villages.
TheSwabian farmers grew cabbage and brought their Germanic tradition ofsauerkraut production with them and Vecsés is famous even today for itssauerkraut. Vecsés started to develop quickly after it was formed. From the end of the 19th century, the population started to grow, the village had a busy social, cultural and political life. It had a high number of victims in World War II. By the late 20th century, Vecsés became a town of individual character and as such was elevated fromvillage totown on 2 July 2001.
The 1943 novelIndul a bakterház [hu] by Rideg Sándor was set near the town, and the 1980 filmfilm adaptation of the novel [hu] was shot on location.[1]
At one time the airlineWizz Air had its head office in the Airport Business Park C2 in Vecsés.[2] The airline moved into its current head office on the property ofBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport in the northern hemisphere summer of 2011.[3]
The autobus company "VOLÁNBUSZ" operates 3 buses to Vecsés town:
Lăzarea, Romania
Rheinstetten, Germany
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