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A lágymányosi telek története - The History of the Site in Lágymányos GY. Balogh Ágnes
THE HISTORY OF THE SITE IN LÁGYMÁNYOS Lágymányos was a sparsely developed area even as late as in the 19th century, featuring vineyards, farmland, pastures and woodlands. The land marked out for the purposes of the new university campus and its surroundings was typically cultivated in the early 1800s, whilst the eastern half was still an integral part of the riverbed of the Danube widening right here. Only a few buildings had stood in the area around today's Gellért Square, one of them, Sáros Fürdő (meaning "Muddy Bath"] on the site of the present-day Hotel Gellért. This is the starting point of two highways: the one closer to the Danube bank named Albertfalvi (later on: Promontori, then Budafoki) Road and the old-time highway (later on Fehérvári, then Horthy Miklós, and today Bartók Béla Road). The areas between them cLoser to the river were mainly cultivated as ploughlands, whilst farther on all over the slopes of Gellért Hill as vineyards. The catchment area of the Danube span between these two roads at the time. In the map surveying the damage caused by the great flood in 1838 the houses which had collapsed are coloured in black. The same map also shows the area underwater which almost reached as far as today's Bartók Béla Road. What survived of the building stock of the rarely developed surroundings was located on the perimeter of the later Gellért Square: a few houses, the building of the Sáros Bath being one of them. All the houses built on the rectangular site where the Library of the University of Technology stands today collapsed during the flood. The first owner of this site that we know of was Imre Szabó, a member of the royal septemvirate (the Hungarian Supreme Court of Justice till 1868), who sold it on June 15th to Terézia Kohn (née Schossberger) who paid 23.000 Crowns for it. In Lágymányos, which formed part of Tabán as the outskirts of Buda, land registration was only introduced from the mid-19th century onward. BUDA, PEST VÍZRAJZI TÉRKÉPE, 1833 HYDROGRAPHICAL CHART OF BUDA AND PEST, 1833
