Újbuda, Budapest — #5 Best Neighborhood in Budapest

About the neighborhood

District of Budapest in Central Hungary, Hungary

Újbuda (lit. New Buda) is the 11th district of Budapest (Hungarian: Budapest XI. kerület), Hungary. It is the most populous district of Budapest with 137,426 inhabitants (2008). Until the 1890s, Újbuda's present territory was a field south of the historical town of Buda. The construction of a new residential area started in the 1900s, the present district was formed in 1930. From 1880 to 1980, Újbuda's population increased from 1,180 to 178,960. There are boulevards, avenues with tram lines, and communist-era housing estates in the district. Line 4 of the Budapest metro passes through Újbuda.

Neighborhoods

Albertfalva

Dobogó

Gazdagrét

Gellérthegy (partially)

Hosszúrét

Infopark

Kamaraerdő

Kelenföld

Kelenvölgy

Kőérberek

Lágymányos

Madárhegy

Nádorkert

Őrmező

Örsöd

Péterhegy

Pösingermajor

Sasad

Sashegy (partially)

Szentimreváros

Spanyolrét

Tabán (partially)

Population

Ethnic groups (2001 census)

Magyars - 91.4%

Germans - 1.2%

Others - 1.8%

No answer - 5.6%

Religions (2001 census)

Roman Catholic - 47.1%

Calvinist - 12%

Lutheran - 2.8%

Greek Catholic - 1.4%

Jewish - 0.45%

Other (Christian) - 1%

Other (non-Christian) - 0.5%

Atheists - 18%

No answer, unknown - 16.6%

Transport

Traffic to Budapest from Western Hungary enters the city in this district; a main road, Budaörsi út is the direct continuation of motorways M1 and M7. Three bridges on the Danube are located in the district; the bridges Liberty, Petőfi and Rákóczi/Lágymányosi connect the district to the neighboring 5th and 9th districts on the Pest side.

Kelenföld Railway Station, the fourth largest railway station of Budapest is in the district. Most of the trains heading to Western Hungary and Western Europe pass through the station (including commuter trains to the agglomeration). The district also has a smaller station, the Albertfalva station.

Kelenföld Railway Station is also the terminus for Metro Line M4; the line, opened in 2014, is the first of the Budapest Metro to serve the district, where it has 5 of its 10 stations. It connects the district with Keleti Railway Station, the largest railway station in Hungary. Next to the Kelenföld Railway Station there is also a major bus station for local buses and another for buses serving the nearby towns.

The district has 46 bus lines, 9 night bus lines and 11 tram lines (among them Lines 4 and 6, two of the most important tram lines of the city, both of which have their terminus in the district).

There are no airports with scheduled flights within the district, however, it is home to Budaörs Airport, the pre-1950 main airport of Hungary. This was the second international airport in Budapest (after Mátyásföld Airfield), and the oldest still existing one, although today it serves general aviation only. During World War I one of the first military airfields, Albertfalva Military Airfield was located in the district, next to the first Hungarian airplane factory.

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International relations

Twin towns – Sister cities

Újbuda is twinned with:

Ruse, Bulgaria

Prague 5 - Czech Republic

Trogir - Croatia

Vienna – Döbling – Austria

Ustroń - Poland

Bad Cannstatt Stuttgart – Germany

Sânzieni (Kézdiszentlélek) – Romania

Târgu Mureş (Marosvásárhely) – Romania

Trstice (Nádszeg) – Slovakia

Ada – Serbia

Cortona – Italy

Berehove Raion – Ukraine

Újbuda

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