Orasch

Diósd
Orasch (in German)

Town

Coat of arms

Diósd

Location of Diósd

Coordinates: 47°24′15″N 18°56′45″E / 47.40417°N 18.94583°E

Hungary

Area

• Total

5.75 km² (2.22 sq mi)

Population (2014)

• Total

9,348

• Density

1,006/km² (2,610/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

Postal code

2049

Area code

(+36) 23

Website

diosd.hu

Diósd (German: Orasch), Hungary is a small town located between the larger cities of Budapest and Érd in the Budapest metropolitan area, Pest County.

Though many residents commute to work to the capital city Budapest, the largest employers in the town are a manufacturing plant named New MGM Zrt., that produces ball bearings and tapered roller bearing for worldwide OEM customers and dealers, an Interspar grocery store, and the International Christian School of Budapest [1], a school that serves missionary families, expatriates, and Hungarians.

The northern part of Diósd is located on the Tétényi plateau, which is a natural reserve. The ground has a very high concentration of limestone, and many uncommon plants can be found in this area. At least two Beehive Stones can be found in the forest in the northwest of Diósd. Two former limestone quarries also exist where locals often like to meet.

Diósd was first mentioned in 1417 under king Sigismund.

Diósd is known in German by the name Orasch. The reason for this phenomenon is that after the Turkish invasion, the area was fully uninhabited. Swabians arrived from Southern Germany to repopulate the town and they were in majority there until the end of the second world war, when many of the Swabes were chased away. The Swabians in Diósd usually lived from making wine in wine cellars. Many of these cellars were made as big as normal houses to fit in the equipment used to make wine. Some of the wine cellars were longer than 100 meters. In the 1880s most of the vineyards were killed by Phylloxera. Since the cellars and storage houses became useless, they were converted into new residential houses. Most of these are still inhabited. Since most cellars still exist and many are located under the roads of the town, weight restrictions have to be taken seriously. After the vineyards died, the residentials planted plums. Almost all of these were finally destroyed in the 2000s when many new houses were built on the location of the plum fields.

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