For lovers of peace and quiet.
A spacious and very comfortable house in a quiet village, tranquility, nice people, beautiful nature, hiking trails, many nice eateries, delicious wines, beautiful towns, beautiful Budapest and of course Lake Balaton.
Behind the house is a spacious barn with garden furniture and between the house and barn is a spacious and light canopy.
The garden is sheltered on all sides, with several places to sit in and out of the sun or the wind. There is a swimming pool for children. The site continues to the rear for about two hundred meters.
POSSIBILITIES IN THE AREA
There is a shop in the village. The opening hours are on the door. For larger groceries you can go to Veszprem. In the city itself there are many shops and markets. On the ring road (north-east) there are also a Tesco, Spar, Aldi, Lidl and an OBI and many other large stores.
From Hidegkut you can go to Lake Balaton by car, but you can also stay in this quiet area and go hiking. A bike ride around Lake Balaton is also recommended! You can swim in many places at the lake. There is often about 2 euros entrance fee, but then you will also find neat toilets and showers.
There are also restaurants everywhere, where you can go very reasonably for little money.
Budapest is of course a beautiful city to visit. You can take the train or motorway from Veszprem – don't forget to check if your vignette is valid.
You can go horseback riding in many places. The Tihany peninsula is beautiful for a visit, although very touristy. Spread over the country there are several places with thermal baths.
THE VILLAGE ITSELF
Hidegkut is located on the northeastern tip of Lake Balaton in a quiet valley. The stream flows through the hills and forests to Lake Balaton.
Hidegkut has about 450 inhabitants. That is less than before, but in recent years it has been growing again. Many young people with children come to live there. Proportionally, many older people live there, many of German origin. This is often the case in northwestern Hungary.
Hidegkut – it means cold spring or cold well – is one of about 300 villages populated by the Habsburg emperors in the 18th century with Catholic Swabia Deutschen, because the country had become very empty after Turkish rule. As a result, the main street also has a characteristic structure as you find in many of those villages: separate houses next to each other with a strip of land behind them. They used the lands around the village jointly, and at home they had cattle and vegetable gardens until the sixties. Everyone had a few cows, one or two horses, pigs, chickens and goats. You can still see that in the construction of the yard. Now there is not a single farmer in the village.
There is a service in the church every Sunday.
In the Hosszu Utca there is a point of sale of goat cheese.
The nearest gas station is in Nemesvamos, on the road from Veszprem to Hidegkut (so you often pass by).
THE JOURNEY THERE
You can fly to Budapest, Vienna, Bratislave, Graz or Balaton (Keszthely, on the west side of the lake), but we usually drive there.
The journey there from our house in North Groningen is about 1300 kilometers by car. You can easily take several days here, along various beautiful routes in central Europe. In the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, you have to buy a vignette for the motorways via the internet. You will be registered electronically after payment.
We usually drive in one day over Oldenburg, Bremen, Hannover, Magdeburg, Leipzig, Dresden, Prague, Brno, Bratislava, Györ, Zirc, Veszprem. In 2024 we also got the tip to drive from Györ to Veszprem over Papa. In any case, you will then arrive at the ring road. Here you go around the city and take the exit in the direction of Tapolca. On this quiet road you will see, after about 10 km a sign to Hidegkut, turn left. Then after the exit you will see the village after a few minutes.
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