cool nontouristic spots of Hungary!

[Jana]

I'm very fascinated with heavy industry which is normal since I come from heavy industrial city. I like what is ugly, scary and decayed - it create special atmosphere and aestetics.
modern sterile materials of glass, plastic etc are soulless and uninspiring - they can't let you think/imagine, flow in some other kind of dreamworld

we often make videos exploring csepel island in Budapest -where was based lot of industry
I like brick, steel, brutalist architecture (that will be reviewed in other posts) - but spending too much time there can overwhelm you, and you need to recuparate in idylic nature surrounding.

Cool spot 1: Manfréd Weiss Steel and Metal Works

The Weiss Manfréd Acél- és Fémművek (“Manfréd Weiss Steel and Metal Works”), or colloquially Csepel Művek (“Csepel Works”) was one of the largest machine factories in Hungary, located on Csepel island outside Budapest.

It played an integral role in the heavy industry and military production of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Founded by Baron Manfréd Weiss of Csepel, a Jewish industrialist, by the time of World War I the company was one of largest defense contractors in Austria- Hungary, producing all types of equipment, from airplanes and munitions to automotive engines and cars.

By the outbreak of World War II the company had become a modern industrial conglomerate, with over 40,000 employees, a large part of its management remained largely composed of Hungarian Jews. When Nazi Germany overran Hungary in 1944, the majority of them were arrested by the Gestapo. The Weiss family was allowed to emigrate to Portugal and escape the horrors of the Holocaust, but their large art collection, along with the entire industrial complex bearing their name was taken over by Germany.

Badly damaged by Allied air raids and eventually pillaged during World War II, the company continued in existence until 1950, when it was nationalised and renamed to Rákosi Mátyás Vas- és Fémművek (“Mátyás Rákosi Iron and Metal Works NV”, where “NV” means Nemzeti Vállalat, “National Company”).



Good photos here: http://www.linthout.it/csepel.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfr%...nd_Metal_Works



imagine living there when tens of thousands people work live and die there! I don't think you want, ? but....it has story to say.

WATCH Csepel Island on google maps! 48 km long on Danube

https://www.google.com/maps/place/%C...d47.25!4d18.95

[Jana]

Cool spot 2: Dunaújváros

so ugly that it inspires! The construction of this new industrial city started in 1949 and the original village was renamed Sztálinváros ("Stalin City") in 1951. After the Hungarian revolution of 1956 the new government renamed the city the neutral Dunaújváros in 1961, which means "Danube New City" (New City on the Danube).

Soviet architecture in full bloom plus flatland surrounding on big lazy river. Can be situated in middle of Siberia if you didn't know.
awesome atmospheric town!!! Heart of Hungary.

watch it on Google maps: https://www.google.com/maps?q=dunauj...ziAVIQ_AUIDygC

even better to visit in winter snows



The feel of complete calm when walking in this calm sleepy town.

[Jana]

[Adam Janossy]

I'm very fascinated with heavy industry which is normal since I come from heavy industrial city. I like what is ugly, scary and decayed - it create special atmosphere and aestetics.
modern sterile materials of glass, plastic etc are soulless and uninspiring - they can't let you think/imagine, flow in some other kind of dreamworld

we often make videos exploring csepel island in Budapest -where was based lot of industry
I like brick, steel, brutalist architecture (that will be reviewed in other posts) - but spending too much time there can overwhelm you, and you need to recuparate in idylic nature surrounding.

Cool spot 1: Manfréd Weiss Steel and Metal Works

The Weiss Manfréd Acél- és Fémművek (“Manfréd Weiss Steel and Metal Works”), or colloquially Csepel Művek (“Csepel Works”) was one of the largest machine factories in Hungary, located on Csepel island outside Budapest.

It played an integral role in the heavy industry and military production of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Founded by Baron Manfréd Weiss of Csepel, a Jewish industrialist, by the time of World War I the company was one of largest defense contractors in Austria- Hungary, producing all types of equipment, from airplanes and munitions to automotive engines and cars.

By the outbreak of World War II the company had become a modern industrial conglomerate, with over 40,000 employees, a large part of its management remained largely composed of Hungarian Jews. When Nazi Germany overran Hungary in 1944, the majority of them were arrested by the Gestapo. The Weiss family was allowed to emigrate to Portugal and escape the horrors of the Holocaust, but their large art collection, along with the entire industrial complex bearing their name was taken over by Germany.

Badly damaged by Allied air raids and eventually pillaged during World War II, the company continued in existence until 1950, when it was nationalised and renamed to Rákosi Mátyás Vas- és Fémművek (“Mátyás Rákosi Iron and Metal Works NV”, where “NV” means Nemzeti Vállalat, “National Company”).



Good photos here: http://www.linthout.it/csepel.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfr%...nd_Metal_Works



imagine living there when tens of thousands people work live and die there! I don't think you want, ? but....it has story to say.

WATCH Csepel Island on google maps! 48 km long on Danube

https://www.google.com/maps/place/%C...d47.25!4d18.95

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...nfred_1901.jpg
This picture is from the A-H Monarchy, such large industry did not exist in Orthodox countries that time..

[Adam Janossy]

This video is full with 120 years old industrial places.

[noricum]

Cool spot 2: Dunaújváros

so ugly that it inspires!

The achitecture isn't that bad in my opinion, at least not with all the green around. But the utter lacking of any traces of landscape really hurts my Austrian eyes. How do Hungarians manage to not get lost without using sextants in the vast plain? That remais miracle to me.

[PaleoEuropean]

Cool spot 2: Dunaújváros

so ugly that it inspires! The construction of this new industrial city started in 1949 and the original village was renamed Sztálinváros ("Stalin City") in 1951. After the Hungarian revolution of 1956 the new government renamed the city the neutral Dunaújváros in 1961, which means "Danube New City" (New City on the Danube).

Soviet architecture in full bloom plus flatland surrounding on big lazy river. Can be situated in middle of Siberia if you didn't know.
awesome atmospheric town!!! Heart of Hungary.

watch it on Google maps: https://www.google.com/maps?q=dunauj...ziAVIQ_AUIDygC

even better to visit in winter snows



The feel of complete calm when walking in this calm sleepy town.

Looks like an awesome place to visit!

[Blondie]

Bonanza Banzai is the hungarian Depeche Mode, Ákos maked good music in the old times, unlike today :/

[Jana]

Bonanza Banzai is the hungarian Depeche Mode, Ákos maked good music in the old times, unlike today :/

There was big Depeche Mode fan club in Budapest, but the warehouse was demolished....(Pesca?)
do you know good industrial places to visit in Hungary ?

I like trains, locomotives and etc.

But I don't like Ghetto places like certain areas of Miskolc where Gypsies live.

[Jana]

Y Houses Tapolca - the architecture, volcanic hills / Balaton Lake in background...awesome set !