Headquarters of the soviet army
If Disney did Military bases! That is what I always think when looking at my pictures. Things were once a lot grander for this dilapidated building though.
Located an hours and a half from Budapest and half an hour away from the Great lake is the Giant and very ornate Hajmáskér Barracks, built by Francis Joseph I (who was the Emperor of Austria, and King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia) in the late 1800's as housing for the army right next to what was to become Hungary's largest artillery range. During the First World War the barracks housed a POW camp. The second world war saw the barracks change hand first into Nazi ownership and then the Soviets who used this as their major base of Operations until 1990.
Now the concrete flats that went up around the base, I am assuming for Soviet family housing, are lived in by the locals the barracks sit abandoned in what is essentially now a housing estate making it look very odd. The artillery range is still there and has remnants of tanks littered about but sadly not accessible by car :(
There is not a lot left to see inside and nature is slowly reclaiming this vast building with big parts of the barracks now collapsing, still it was a very good stop on the way to Budapest
Located an hours and a half from Budapest and half an hour away from the Great lake is the Giant and very ornate Hajmáskér Barracks, built by Francis Joseph I (who was the Emperor of Austria, and King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia) in the late 1800's as housing for the army right next to what was to become Hungary's largest artillery range. During the First World War the barracks housed a POW camp. The second world war saw the barracks change hand first into Nazi ownership and then the Soviets who used this as their major base of Operations until 1990.
Now the concrete flats that went up around the base, I am assuming for Soviet family housing, are lived in by the locals the barracks sit abandoned in what is essentially now a housing estate making it look very odd. The artillery range is still there and has remnants of tanks littered about but sadly not accessible by car :(
There is not a lot left to see inside and nature is slowly reclaiming this vast building with big parts of the barracks now collapsing, still it was a very good stop on the way to Budapest
