Budapest/Csepel

Csepel (German: Tschepele) is the official name of the 21st district of Budapest. It is located at the northern end of Csepel Island in the Danube. Being on an island, it is the only complete district of Budapest which is neither in Pest nor in Buda. It has approximately 85,000 inhabitants.

Understand
The village and the island were named after the first comes (Hungarian: ispán) of the area, Csepel. Csepel Island became the personal domain of Árpád after the migration of Hungarians into Pannonia in the early 10th century. It remained a favourite resort of the Hungarian kings in the Middle Ages. From 1484 onwards Csepel was the wedding present to future Hungarian queens. The Ottoman Turks totally destroyed the village and the royal manor house in the 16th century. At the end of the 17th century, Serb refugees from Turkish-occupied Serbia settled here. At the beginning of the 18th century Prince Eugene of Savoy, owner of the island, re-established the settlement and populated it with German colonists. It became an independent municipality in 1742. The original village was located in the present-day freeport (Szabadkikötő) area but it was totally destroyed by the great flood of 1838. The new village was built on higher ground, in present-day Ófalu (Old Village). Formerly it was a working-class borough with several factories; there was even a bicycle named Csepel. Today, Csepel contains housing estates as well as middle-class garden suburbs.

Get in
To Csepel from the center:
 * From Boráros tér by to.
 * From Kőbánya–Kispest by or  to.
 * From Közvágóhíd by to Csepel, Szent Imre tér (only on weekdays).

Public transport map of Csepel.

Culture




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