Demeter Zsófia – Gelencsér Ferenc: Székesfehérvár Anno… Pillanatképek egy város életéből. – A Fejér Megyei Múzeumegyesület kiadványai 6. – Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei: B sorozat 38 (1990)

ment, Regent Horthy is recei­ved by Mayor Csitáry and Lord Lieutenant Count Széchenyi. 61. Gallery of the Parliament. 62. Corner Kossuth Street — Main Square, with Zichy Palace and Szigethy House, about 1930. 63. The Szigethy House (6, City Hall Passage) was demolished in 1937 for the second recons­truction of the City Hall. 1936. (Photo: Károly Hege). 64. Narrow curve of Kossuth Stre­et, with Szigethy House. Early 1930's. 65. War Memorial, by János Pász­tor and Rezső Hikisch, at the entrance of the crypt of the Cathedral. Since the square was originally too narrow, the recumbent figure of the sol­dier was added only after the demolition of the Szigethy Hou­se. The monument was erected in 1929, the photo was made in 1936. 66. The complete monument in 1938, after the square was ar­ranged. 67. Reparation of glazed tile pave­ment in front of the Eisenbarth House, Castle Boulevard. The house was demolished in the 30's, when the Ruins' Garden was being made. Since 1938, the Wathay statue stands at its place. The photo was made in the early 30's. (Photo: Tibor Molnár; cf. Fig. 42.). 68. Look-out from the arcades of the Ruins' Garden. The oppo­site house belonged to the pho­tographer Károly Tóth and was destroyed during World War Two. The show-edifice of the Ruins' Garden was designed by Géza Lux. 1938. 69. May 22. 1938. Ruins' Garden and surroundings flagged for the festival of First War veterans. 70. Unearthed during the explora­tion of the Ruins' Garden, the skeletons were inhumed on Au­gust 13. 1938 by Bishop Lajos Shvoy. 71. Opening of the Ruins' Garden on August 18. 1938. Wallpain­tings of the mausoluem by Vil­mos Aba Novak. 72. June 1. 1938. The „Golden Tra­in" bringing the Holy Right Hand of St. Stephen arrived to Székesfehérvár. On the Square of Our Lady (Today Market Pla­ce) a high mass was celebrated in the presence of 50 000 per­sons by the papal nuncio, Arc­hbishop Angelo Rotta. Guarded in the Cathedral, the cranial re­lic of St. Stephen was also expo­sed. 73. June 1. 1938. The ashes of Bis­hop Ottokár Prohászka, died in 1927, are conveyed to their final resting-place in the Prohászka Memorial Church built out of public contributions (cf. Fig. 11-12.)-74. Laying of the foundation-stone of the head office of War Vete­rans (today that of the Trades Union). 75. The building of the Deutsch-Deák Store was reconstruc­ted in 1910 in secessionist sty­le. The secessionist ornaments and the hemispherical cupo­la were removed in 1938, when the building was reconstruc­ted in its actual form (cf. next Fig.)-76. War memorial by Pál Pátzay in remembrance of the war dead of the Cavalry Regiment Nr.10, erected in 1938. (Photo: Ernő Vadas. ). 222

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