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unusual facts about Győr–Celldömölk railway


Győr–Celldömölk railway

Győr–Celldömölk railway line is the number 10 line of the MÁV.


Antal Pusztai

He was born in Mosonmagyaróvár (near Győr), Hungary, in 1978, and he started guitar at the age of seven.

Attila Pacsay

At age 14, he was accepted in the composition class of László Draskóczy and Attila Reményi at the János Richter Conservatory in the city of Győr.

Battle of Graz

At this time Ignaz Gyulai's corps lay at Zagreb (Agram) while Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary collected about 10,000 Hungarian Insurrections militia at Győr (Raab).

Centrope

CENTROPE is a joint initiative of the Austrian Federal Provinces of Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland, the Czech Region of South Moravia, the Slovak Regions of Bratislava and Trnava, the Hungarian Counties of Győr-Moson-Sopron and Vas as well as the Cities of Bratislava, Brno, Eisenstadt, Győr, Sopron, St. Pölten, Szombathely and Trnava.

Ferenc Chalupetzky

Ferenc Chalupetzky (6 April 1886, Magyaróvár – 19 August 1951, Győr) was a Hungarian chess master and author.

Ferenc Nemeth

At 14 he left home to study classical percussion at the Richter János Conservatory in Győr.

Győr-Pér International Airport

The direction of the airport is shown by traffic signs in the village of Pér.

Hungary in World War II

Approximately half of the six thousand Jewish forced laborers working in the copper mines in Bor, Yugoslavia (now Serbia) were executed by the Germans during the death march from Bor to Győr on August - October 1944, including the 35 year old poet Miklós Radnóti, shot at the Hungarian village of Abda being too weak to continue after a savage beating.

Jan Čapek ze Sán

He was first mentioned in Hungarian sources as a leader of Władysław’s Hungarian-Polish army, which around 15 June 1440 occupied Győr, a territory belonged to Elizabeth of Luxemburg and her son, Ladislaus the Posthumous.

Körmendy

The said heroic act occurred in a battle at the Hungarian town Győr, rescuing some Christians from the Turks.

Márton Illés

Illés received musical training in piano, composition and percussion in Győr from 1981 to 1994.

Ottoman–Habsburg wars

Keresztes was a bloodbath for the Christian armies – thus it is surprising to note that the Austrians renewed the war against their enemies in the summer of 1597 with a drive southward, taking Pápa, Tata, Raab (Győr) and Veszprém.

Patrick Mevoungou

Patrick Mevoungou (born 15 February 1986 in Yaoundé) is a Cameroonian football midfielder playing with Hungarian side Győr.

Tour de Hongrie

The cyclists hit the road as early as four in the morning, and the Budapest-Szombathely-Győr-Budapest stage was accomplished the quickest by Károly Jerzsabek, who managed to cover the distance of 510.5 kilometres in 22 hours and 10 minutes to become the first ever champion of the event.

Wien Südbahnhof

Two railway lines were planned, extending from Vienna to the south and east: one to Wiener Neustadt and Gloggnitz, and one via Bruck an der Leitha to Győr (German: Raab), with an extension to Uj-Szöny (now a suburb of Komárom) and a branch line to Pozsony (now Bratislava).


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