Vecsés is a town of 20,550 inhabitants in Budapest metropolitan area, Pest county, Hungary, situated adjacent to Budapest’s Ferihegy Airport. Vecsés  is a town of 20,550 inhabitants in Budapest metropolitan area, Pest county, Hungary, situated adjacent to Budapest’s Ferihegy Airport.

Sights

• Roman Catholic Church – completed in 1800 , for which a tower was built in 1835 .
• There are 1-1 churches in the four settlements
• Grove of Heroes
• Elizabeth Square and the monuments in the square
• Vecsés Exhibition Hall of the Hungarian Oil and Gas Museum (Technical Memories of Oil and Gas Transmission)
• Ágnes Bálint Cultural Center
• Szent István Koronás fountain – the work of Zsigmond Szórádi and János Seres

Calendar of events 

• Farewell to Vecsés : every September (after Mary’s Day). In addition to the church farewell, a 3-day farewell will be held in Epres (the square next to the Main Road), with plenty of carousels, target shooting ranges and fairs. Note: The temple farewell is not tied to Mary’s Day. The title of the church is “Exaltation of the Holy Cross”. Its celebration is on September 14, so the church feast will be held on the 14th and the following Sunday.
• Cabbage festival : every September. A series of cultural events dotted with programs and competitions in accordance with the traditions of the city. ^[11]
• Harvest Ball : held every year on the first Saturday of October.
• Spring Festival : is held in April every year. The festival lasts for a week, with exhibitions, theater performances and literary evenings organized for visitors at various venues. On the closing day, a full-day program awaits those interested in Epres, next to the Main Road.
• Bálint Ágnes Fairy Tale Festival : it is held every year on the weekend of Children’s Day, at the external and internal venues of the Bálint Ágnes Cultural Center and the Bálint Ágnes Memorial House.

History

The village was first mentioned in records in 1318. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the region had a dense network of villages and extant documents mention it as an ecclesiastical place. In 1786 Count Antal Grassalkovich settled 50 families in Vecsés, who were mainly Swabian, and to a lesser extent Slovakian and Hungarian inhabitants from the surrounding villages. The movie Indul a bakterház was shot here.

The Swabian farmers grew cabbage and brought their Germanic tradition of sauerkraut production with them and Vecsés is famous even today for its sauerkraut. Vecsés started to develop quickly after it was formed. From the end of the 19th century, the population started to grow, the village had a busy social, cultural and political life. It had a high number of victims in World War II. By the late 20th century, Vecsés became a town of individual character and as such was elevated from village to town on 1 July 2001.