Sipos András: Joint Database as Research Tool – Sources on the Society of Budapest (1870s–1910s) on ’Hungaricana’ Portal. Tagungsblog En route to a shared identity. Sources on the history of Central Europe in the Digital Age. 2016.
Real Estate Register Sheets of Vili. József körút 27 with the entry of purchasingthe plot by Gustav Petschacher and Irma Weninger. BFLXV.37.C - 5732. We gain an also fundamental information from the Charges section of the same estate register: 15th July 1889 the architect and his wife received a mortgage of 60.000 Fl. ö. W. from the K. und k. Privilegierte Allgemeine Boden-Credit-Anstalt in Wien, to be repaid in 84 bi-annual annuities of 1575 FL, being the 85th annuity 2361 Fl. The digitisation and on-line publication of the real estate registers opens the possibility to collect data ,,en-masse” on the credit financement of house-building. At this moment we have only blurred and diffuse picture about that. It seems to be quite interesting, that Petschacher, who had intimate relationship with the financial market of Budapest through the family of his wife, turned to the Viennese credit market, when he needed a really big sum for a long term. This raises a general question about the role of the Viennese credit market in the finance management of the building and housing sector of Budapest, and Hungaricana may be a therefore useful tool to try to gain at least some tentative conclusions about that. Petschacher’s part of the house ownership was inherited by his six children (five daughters and one son). Their guardian was Irma Weninger’s brother, a banker himself. On the Charges section of the estate register occurred new and new mortgages charged on the widow’s part of ownership. Her share was burdened with 32.587 Fl. new mortgage altogether in 1895/96. Among the biggest creditors we
