Horváth M. Ferenc: Vác Magyarország kincsestára (Vác, 2018)

The name of the part of the town established around the turn of the 19th and the 20th century, Deák Castle, is rooted in its past: there were clay and sand mines here, where students (the old word for them was: deák) built castles. On the area over the railway line, divided into plots by Mihály Bauer, a teacher and farmer, officials and public servants settled and built their villas or simpler family houses. The character of this part of the town changed when in the middle of the 20th century the development of the cement factory accelerated, and for the settling employees and workers the first housing estates of the town were built. Development continues to this day, but now again condominiums and family houses are built in this suburban part of the town. The Calvary building complex, the gathering chapel, the hermitage and the group of statues on a fortress-like structure, built by János Schick in the 1720s, are located on the south-east edge of Deák Castle, in Homok Lane. The Catholic church of Deák Castle was built in 1940; the Baptist church was built in 2004. Colourful bee-eaters nest in the loess hillside nearby every year.

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