Vecsés
town in Hungary
Vecsés (pronounced [ˈvɛt͡ʃeːʃ]; German: Wetschesch) is a town of 20,550 inhabitants in Budapest metropolitan area, Pest County, Hungary, situated adjacent to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport.
History
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 Count Antal Grassalkovich settled 50 families in Vecsés, who were mainly Swabian, and to a lesser extent Slovak and Hungarian inhabitants from the surrounding villages.
The Swabian farmers grew cabbage and brought their Germanic tradition of sauerkraut production with them and Vecsés is famous even today for its sauerkraut. 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 from village to town on 2 July 2001.
The 1943 novel Indul a bakterház by Rideg Sándor was set near the town, and the 1980 film film adaptation of the novel was shot on location.
Economy
At one time the airline Wizz Air had its head office in the Airport Business Park C2 in Vecsés.
“Vecsés” enters the record as town in Hungary. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Vecsés, town and Hungary can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Vecsés” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Vecsés, town and Hungary provides the most credible route into that argument.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q36063. VIAF identifies the subject as 153702741. The Library of Congress control number is n87882419. Authority coordinates are 47.411, 19.272. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1318, 1786, 2001 and 1943.
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This entry incorporates text from “Vecsés” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.