Dorog

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Dorog
Town
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
2510
Area code(+36) 33
Websitehttps://www.dorog.hu/

Dorog (German: Drostdorf) is a small town in Komárom-Esztergom County, Hungary. It lies 38 km (24 mi) north-west from the center of Budapest.

Etymology

The name comes from Slavic drugъ (drug) - a partner, comrade, "brother".[3][4]

History

North of Dorog with the power plant
Housing estate

The valley between the Pilis and Gerecse mountains has been inhabited since the Neolithic. A Roman military road westwards from Aquincum passed by the present-day town of Dorog, where Roman dwellings with floor heating have been found, along with conduits, graves and milestones. When Hungary's kings resided at Esztergom in the 11th and 12th centuries, Dorog was where the cooks of the castle lodged. Roads from all directions met here in the Middle Ages, and the Chapter of Esztergom had the right to levy custom duties. The name, which appears in the form Durug, Drug and Durugd, is first mentioned in an extant document in 1181.

The medieval settlement, destroyed in the

Roman Catholic
church built in 1767–1775.

The first written contract on

power plant was constructed (which was rebuilt in the 1980s with a 120-metre (390 ft) high chimney). In 1900 Dorog had 1966 inhabitants (1369 Germans, 477 Hungarians, 55 Slovaks
).

Budapest's factories and population needed more and more coal in the

Catholic church, a Reformed church in Transylvanian style (which was constructed by Transylvanian coalminers who moved there after the Treaty of Trianon), two new schools, a kindergarten, a modern hospital, a mine manager's club, mine manager's residences, a town hall
, a World War I memorial and a recreation ground. Most of these were designed by the engineer Zoltán Gáthy.

Some 300 men of Dorog lost their lives in the Second World War. A few years after the war, many Germans were expelled. During the

Gedeon Richter company, Hungaroton record plant, a machine factory). Dorog became a town in 1984, the industrial park
was established in 1999.

Economy

There are several factories in Dorog, including:

  • Panasonic Corp. (solar cell manufacturing) (closed down)
  • Gedeon Richter Plc.
    (medicine)
  • Novoprint Corp. (printing complex)
  • Dorog-Esztergom Hőerőmű Ltd. (power plant)

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1850 540—    
1857 837+55.0%
1870 1,161+38.7%
1880 1,163+0.2%
1890 1,363+17.2%
1900 1,966+44.2%
1910 1,949−0.9%
1920 3,943+102.3%
1930 5,863+48.7%
1941 8,182+39.6%
1949 8,855+8.2%
1960 9,994+12.9%
1970 10,744+7.5%
1980 11,844+10.2%
1990 12,798+8.1%
2001 12,609−1.5%
2011 12,199−3.3%

Ethnic groups (2001 census):

Religions (2001 census):

  • Roman Catholic
    — 57.4%
  • Calvinist
    — 8.9%
  • Lutheran
    — 0.8%
  • Other Christian — 2%
  • Atheist
    — 19.1%
  • No answer, unknown — 11.8%

Traffic and transport

Roads 10, 111 and 117 and the

Commuter bus no. 800 (with Volvo 7700A buses) connects the town with Árpád híd metro station
. It runs every 20 or 30 minutes on a typical weekday.

Notable residents

Twin towns – sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Hungary

Dorog is twinned with:[5]

References

  1. ^ Dorog at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Hungarian).
  2. ^ Dorog at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Hungarian). 2012
  3. ^ Varsik, Branislav (1977). Osídlenie košickej kotliny III (in Slovak). Bratislava: Slovenská akadémia vied. p. 446.
  4. ^ Kiss, Lajos (1978). Földrajzi nevek etimológiai szótára (in Hungarian). Budapest: Akadémiai. p. 185.
  5. ^ "Külkapcsolatok". dorog.hu (in Hungarian). Dorog. Retrieved 2021-03-23.

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