Solymár (German: Schaumar) is a village in northwest of Budapest metropolitan area, bordering the 3rd and 2nd districts of the city, as well as Nagykovácsi, Pilisszentiván, Pilisvörösvár, Csobánka, Pilisborosjenő, and Üröm. Its picturesque surroundings (hills to the south and east, the highest point is Zsíroshegy at 424m) and good accessibility the 64, 64A, 64B, 164, 164B, 264, 157 and 964 city buses from Hűvösvölgy, 218 from Óbuda, 831 from Pilisszántó, a train from Budapest Nyugati and Esztergom, and coaches from Árpád-híd made it a desirable destination for affluent city-dwellers moving to suburban homes outside of Budapest from the mid-1990s. Its historical German-speaking majority was depopulated following the Second World War, some non-compulsively, and a great majority by force in a series of deportations, which is solemnly remembered in a commemorative monument erected in the village in 1990.
