Bicske

Bicske is a town of about 12 100 inhabitants in Fejér County, located approximately 35–37 km west of Budapest. First mentioned in the 13th–14th centuries, it grew significantly under the Batthyány family, who built a baroque castle, observatory, and astronomers’ tower around 1754–55. The town features an 18th-century Roman Catholic church, ruins of a Reformed church from the 15th century, and a railway station on the Budapest–Hegyeshalom–Rajka line. Historically it was under Ottoman rule and had a notable Jewish community in the 18th–19th centuries, which was devastated during the Holocaust .