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Pákozd

Village of Fejér county in Hungary

Field	Value
official_name	Pákozd
image_skyline	Pákozd légifotó.jpg
image_caption	Battle of Pákozd monument from above
image_shield	Coa_Hungary_Town_Pákozd.svg
image_flag	Flag of Pákozd.svg
pushpin_map	Hungary
pushpin_map_caption	Location of Pákozd
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Hungary
subdivision_type1	County
subdivision_name1	Fejér
area_total_km2	43.32
population_total	2829
population_as_of	2004
population_density_km2	65.3
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	8095
area_code	22
blank_name	Motorways
blank_info	M7
blank2_name	Distance from Budapest
blank2_info	54.3 km Northeast
website

Pákozd is a village in Fejér county, Hungary. Set between Lake Velence and the granite dome of the Velence Hills, Pákozd covers 43.3 km2 of rolling loess and ancient crystalline outcrops just off the M7, 15 km north-west of Székesfehérvár. The village is nationally significant as the site of the Battle of Pákozd (29 September 1848), commemorated by the Katonai Emlékpark Pákozd (KEMPP), a National Memorial Site that attracts over 90,000 visitors annually with its military history exhibits and re-enactments. Once primarily a lakeside farming community, Pákozd has transformed into a growing commuter and recreational settlement, with its population increasing from 2,245 in 1980 to 3,665 in 2022, driven by second-home development and its proximity to Budapest.

Description

The village core edges the northern lakeshore, but its cadastral land climbs south-west to the panoramic Mészeg-hegy and south-east to Sár-hegy, where a 44-ha protected geotope shelters the celebrated Ingókövek ('balancing rocks'). These weather-rounded granite blocks—Pogány-kő, Oroszlán-szikla, Kocka and others—rose to the surface as overlying gneiss eroded, making Pákozd the only Hungarian site with textbook granite tors. Way-marked trails link the rocks to vineyards belonging to the Etyek–Buda wine district and to the new Bence-hegy Lookout Tower, whose steel lattice affords wide views over the lake, reedbeds and migrating waterfowl. Sport fishing, sailing and a 33-km cycle-ring around Lake Velence reinforce Pákozd's role as the outdoor hub of the Gárdony District.

Pákozd entered national consciousness on 29 September 1848, when General János Móga's outnumbered Honvéd army halted Ban Josip Jelačić's advance on the capital in the Battle of Pákozd. An obelisk raised on Mészeg-hegy in 1951 grew into today's Katonai Emlékpark Pákozd (KEMPP)—a 1.6-ha National Memorial Site with open-air artillery displays, interactive galleries on Hungarian military history and re-enactment events that draw more than 90,000 visitors a year. Census data show that the settlement, once a lakeside farming village, is now a fast-growing commuter and holiday community: population climbed from 2,245 in 1980 to 3,665 in 2022, fuelled by second-home construction along the lake and daily commuting to Budapest (54 km by motorway). Despite suburban pressure, local planners have kept a green corridor between the memorial park and the Ingókövek, ensuring that hiking routes, wine-cellar lanes and the lakeshore reeds remain contiguous.

Gallery

File:Pákozd-első-katonai-felmérés-térképe.jpg|The map of Pákozd from the . File:Pákozd-második-katonai-felmérés-térképe.jpg|The map of Pákozd from the . File:Pákozd-harmadik-katonai-felmérés-térképe.jpg|The map of Pákozd from the .

References

(13 June 2022). "Balancing rocks of Pákozd". Magyar Természetjáró Szövetség.
(2024). "Katonai Emlékpark Pákozd – Nemzeti Emlékhely". KEMPP Foundation.
(26 September 2023). "Pákozd, Gárdony District – Population Census 2022". CityPopulation.de – data from Hungarian Central Statistical Office.
(2023). "Lake Velence Cycle Ring and Watersports Guide". Velence Lake Tourism Association.

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