Göd

Göd is famous for its thriving tourism. It has a thermal spa open almost 365 days a year with its water already declared as rich in minerals.

Göd is a small city in Pest CountyHungary.

  • From Budapest, it can be reached by car on the main road 2 or the M2 motorway , by train on the Budapest – Szob railway line ( Alsógöd , Göd and Felsőgöd stops ), by Volánbus or on the cycle path along the Danube .
  • 1846 . The first Hungarian railway line opened here on 15 July . In 1877, the line had stations only in Rákospalota , Dunakeszi and Göd.
  • There are four intercity Volan bus routes through the city ( 300 , 301 , 345 , 371 ) and a privately operated local service (an Ikarus 405 bus).

Sights

Buildings 

  • Nemeskéri-Kiss Mansion
  • Treasure stable and inn – He rented a stable here and prepared the famous racehorse, Ernő Blaskovits, for the competitions.
  • Traces of the late Roman oval fortification of Contra Constantiam with 12 circular towers excavated near Göd-Bócsaújtelep in 2001 
  • Pich Villa (today’s town hall)
  • Tost-Wigner villa (ma piarista school)
  • Schöffer Castle (children’s home-Újtelep)
  • Walch House (now a primary school), the office of a former brick factory, then a villa
  • Irma-lak
  • Bar bar villa
  • Mirror villa
  • Villa Huzella, (in the Huzella Garden ), owned by ELTE
  • Pheasant restaurant, built in 1876 as accommodation for journalists coming here because of Kincsem
  • László Németh’s villa, the writer and his family vacationed and lived here, he wrote his works entitled Human Play, Wednesday Reception Day and Witness
  • Szapáry castle
  • Biciklista Nagyv Vendéglő, today’s József Attila Cultural House, got its name from the first Hungarian amateur bicycle competition, which took place between Budapest and Göd
  • The hotel, which has won the World Travel Awards three times, is the Pólus Palace Thermal Golf Club Hotel.
  • Country flag, the country flag torn down after World War II was inaugurated in 2009

Churches 

Göd was already a church place in the Middle Ages, its circular church stood near today’s castle hill. Today there are 5 churches. Felsőgöd:

  • The Parish Church of the Heart of Jesus in Felsőgöd, the church inaugurated in 1924 was helped to build by Colonel Gyula Bozóy of Pilismaróti
  • Felsőgöd Reformed Church, built in 1939

both churches are in neo-Romanesque style. Alsógöd:

  • The church of St. Stephen in Alsógöd, a small church built in 1908 and then supplemented several times, was set on fire in 1993, and was gradually rebuilt from 1996 until the early 2000s.
  • Alsógöd Reformed Church, completed in 1999
  • Alsógöd Lutheran Church, the church built near the Bottomless Lake was consecrated in 1929

Natural values 

  • A section of the Danube is a popular excursion destination.
  • The island of ‘sand’ in Göd is especially protected due to its unique values.
  • The Szakáts Garden and fishing lake.
  • The Huzella Garden and the “Huzella Garden” of the Eötvös Loránd Garden Herb Garden are nature and ecotourism stations.
  • Széchenyi spring (formerly Zsuzsi spring), named after Ödön Széchenyi, spent one of his summers in the nearby Danube villa.
  • There was a giant walnut tree over 120 years old that was cut down in 1982. It can still be seen in several landscapes today.
  • 25 acres of forest cut into tarra in the fall of 2018 due to the expansion of the South Korean factory!
  • 50 hectares of wooded meadow with lakes.

Other sights 

Thermal water beach.

Contact

MAYOR'S OFFICE
email
varoshaza@god.hu
address
2131 Göd, Pesti út 81
phone
(06-27) 530-064