- Békásmegyer
Békásmegyer ( _de. Krottendorf) is a neighbourhood in
Budapest ,Hungary . It belongs administratively to District III. Békásmegyer is consisted of two different parts, a huge high rise housing estate and the traditional "Ófalu" ("Old Village") with older houses. Békásmegyer is divided into two by the Szentendre Suburban Railway line. It was an independent municipality until1 January 1950 when it was merged into Budapest.Location
It is situated on the edge of Budapest next to
Budakalász , theDanube and the hills of Buda. Békásmegyer is the last train station inside of Budapest on theHÉV suburban railway line.Name
The first recorded name of the village was "Megyer" which refers to the fact that people from the Megyer tribe (who gave their name to
Magyars ) settled here after the migration of Hungarians intoPannonia in the early 10th century. Megyer belongs to the oldest strata of Hungariantoponymy .In the second half of the 17th century Megyer was destroyed by the wars with
Ottoman Turks . The village was resettled by German colonist from the 1740s onwards. They called the village "Krottendorf" (literally "Frogbury") because of the frog-populated marshes of the Danube river meadows.Hungarians called the village "Békás-Megyer", meaning "Frog's Megyer", since the beginning of the 19th century. Now District III. is officially called Óbuda-Békásmegyer.
External links
* [http://www.obuda.hu The official website of Budapest's Third District]
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