Ráckeresztúr

Ráckeresztúr is a village in Fejér County, Hungary. It is situated in the Martonvásár District of Fejér County, about 30 km south-west of Budapest on the broad alluvial plain between the Vértes Hills and the Danube. The settlement occupies 35.3 km2 and had 3,581 inhabitants at the 2022 census, giving a population density just above 100 per square kilometre. It lies on the left bank of the Szent László-patak, a minor stream draining the mezzanine between Lake Velence and the Danube, and functions today as a commuter village with direct road links to the M7 motorway and suburban rail connections through nearby Martonvásár.

The first extant written reference to the locality—then simply "Keresztúr"—occurs in a 1347 boundary charter issued during the reign of Louis I, while archaeological surface finds point to earlier Avar, Celtic and Roman activity. The prefix rác-, denoting Southern-Slav (Serb) settlers, became attached after Orthodox farmers repopulated the area circa 1629 following the long Turkish wars. Baron Anselm Fleissemann purchased the estate in 1717 and soon financed a single-nave Baroque church dedicated to the Exaltation of the Holy Cross; construction stretched from the 1720s to its vaulting in 1769, and the tower was repeatedly rebuilt after fire and storm damage. Eighteenth-century tax rolls already list over ninety peasant houses and a handful of craftsmen; by 1830 the population had passed 1,300, rising steadily with new house-plots laid out on former pasture.