Dorog
Dorog ( German Drost village) is a Hungarian town in Komárom-Esztergom county. It is located 38 km north-west of Budapest.
History
Even from the Neolithic period to the valley was populated between Pilisgebirge and Gerecse Mountains area. Here was the Roman military road from Aquincum (now Budapest) coming into the western provinces. During excavations a Roman villa with a hypocaust, the remains of an aqueduct, a milestone and a sarcophagus and many other discoveries came to light. After the Conquest ( Honfoglalás ) in the near Esztergom emerged ( German Gran ) the Hungarian royal residence, but lived in Dorog the chefs of the queen. In the Middle Ages the settlement hub of the connected four directions streets where the Esztergom cathedral chapter was entitled to levy customs duties. 1181 is the name of the place as Durug, Drug, Durugd first time in documents mention.
During the Turkish occupation Dorog was destroyed, 1542-1649, it was considered uninhabited. In the aftermath met in three waves of immigration, a German settler, where later the returning Hungarian inhabitants joined. The development of the 20th century, attracted miners from Bohemia, Moravia and around Petrozsény ( Hungary, now Romania) here, all beitrungen to create the diversity of the local culture. By 1700, the settlement was again transport hub. Frequent guests of the stagecoach station included the language innovators Ferenc Kazinczy, the tycoon and politician István Széchenyi and Baron Miklós Wesselényi. The number of houses and streets around the 1767-1775 built in the Baroque style Catholic Church increased steadily.
The first written agreement for the coal mining in Dorog 1845 concluded between the Esztergom cathedral chapter and the pit directors Ferenc József and János Wasshuber Jülke. From that time worked on the development of coal mining in Dorog such well-known figures such as the mining engineer Vilmos ZSIGMONDY (1811-1888), the geologist Miksa Hantken (1821-1893), and mining engineers Drasche Heinrich (1811-1880) and Sándor Schmidt (1882 -1953 ), under their proper management are becoming more and more productive exploited shafts were opened. In 1900 Dorog became the center of the coal basin (1911 ). With the capital city by a railway line (Budapest -Esztergom suburban railway ) is connected; also the coal transport on the Danube vessels is possible.
In the first decades of the 20th century saw a miner colony, a worker dormitory, a Protestant Bergmann church in the Transylvanian style, two new schools, a kindergarten, a modern hospital, a casino and apartments for higher mining officials, a community house, the monument to the fallen the First World War and the sports facility, for the most part by the architect Zoltán GATHY. In Dorog Jenő Buzánszky and Gyula Grosics began their career, the Olympic champions were as members of the legendary Aranycsapat.
Population
Twin Cities
- Germany Wendlingen am Neckar, Germany since 1998
- Slovakia Žirany ( Zsére ), Slovakia since 1998
- Germany Marienberg, Germany since 2009