Óváros
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Óváros or Pentele is the central district of
Őrhegy
. Buildings here save the history of Pentele. Fences shows some parts of the national culture.
History
There are some findings dating back to prehistory. There are human settlements here dating back 10,000 years.
Avars
later came to the area.
There is an Eastern Catholic monastery. Rávdomb was built at the same time, and then it was called Dunapentele.
There was built a
hill fort here during the Middle Ages during the reign of Anjou dynasty in Hungary. Its original name (Pentele) may have Greek origin. There was a village around the fort. The church was rebuilt as the center of the parish. It is known today as Ráczdomb. In 1526, after the Battle of Mohács, both the Hungarian and the Ottoman Armies crossed the village. There was built a Pfostenschlitzmauer
here.
Temporally it was an inhabited region during the
Serbs came here as residents. The current Baroque structure of the Greek church is from 1748. When the number of Rascians decreased, the owner of the village, József Rudnyánszky
in 1743 settled here Hungarian serfs.
In 1833 it gained the status of market town in 1833, and there were markets held here every week. The Hungarian Revolution of 1848 had numerous victims from the town.
In 1870 it became a village, though pharmacy and veterinary physician, and its population significantly grew. During the
Second World War
110 houses were destroyed by bombings. The construction of Route 6 improved the economy of the settlement.
Further reading
- Dunaújvárosi Köztéri Szobrai, Várnai Gyula - Gyöngyössy Csaba, 1999, Ma Kiadó, ISBN 963 85423 7 3
- Dunapentele Sztálinváros, Dunaújváros Numizmatikai Emlékei 1950-2010, Asztalos Andrásné, ISBN 978-963-08-1300-6