Bakony emlékműve - Ugod

The view from here is very nice.

Nice little park. With a nice view.

Beautiful view. I'm sorry I rarely get here.

In the “middle of the Bakony”, in the abundance of the largest forests, a steep, rocky-rocky side gravel forest road carved into the hillsides leads to a small plateau from which we can admire the highest peaks and largest forests of the Bakony. This is the Witt lookout tower, named after Lajos Witt (1898-1994), a forest engineer. A forest engineer who also worked for the Pope-Ugod Religious Commission, he had to leave the country in 1957 and emigrated to Canada with his family. He died in Vancouver in 1994. His last wish was to lay his ashes in his Hungarian homeland, Ugandan land, forever. This wish was fulfilled by his family on August 28, 1998, and his ashes rest forever in the forest of Ugod.

In the “middle of the Bakony”, in the abundance of the largest forests, a steep, rocky-collapsed gravel forest road carved into the hillsides leads to a small plateau from which we can admire the highest peaks and largest forests of the Bakony. This is the Witt lookout tower, named after Lajos Witt (1898-1994), a forest engineer. A forest engineer who also worked for the Pope-Ugod Religious Commission, he had to leave the country in 1957 and emigrated to Canada with his family. He died in Vancouver in 1994. His last wish was to place his ashes in his Hungarian homeland, Ugandan land, forever. This wish was fulfilled by his family on August 28, 1998, and his ashes rest forever in the forest of Ugod. Here, on the chosen hill, a plaque placed on a memorial stone pays homage to his memory and work, in front of which a tired hiker can relax on benches, admiring the connected forests, the view of Kőris Hill, the highest point of the Bakony, and the Pannonhalma Abbey complex in the distance. The locals also call this place the Kádár Lookout, remembering that during a visit they set dinner for János Kádár here because of the charm of the place and the wonderful view. The benches standing here still invite the visitor to relax and have a picnic. On the small clearing above the memorial stone stands the monument, which pays homage to the size of the mountains and the Bakony forest with the inscription “Praise the Bakony”.

The lookout commemorates Lajos Witt, a forest engineer who designed the Iharkút railway line, was a university lecturer in Sopron, and introduced modern forest farming. He emigrated to Canada in 1956, where he was curator at the Museum of the Institute of Zoology at British Columbia University. He died in 1994 and, at his request, his ashes were buried here in the Ugod forest, albeit only 4 years later.

The endless forest sea that lies at the feet of the resting hiker is very cool ?