Klemmné Németh Zsuzsa szerk.: Maróti Géza és Zebegény (1875–1941) (Pest Megyei Múzeumok Igazgatósága, 2003)

Schuiarzmaier villa a Dunai oldalról, 2001 THE SCHWARZMAIER-VILLA, PRESUMABLY DESIGNED BY GÉZA MARÓTI In a manuscript kept in the Museum of Architecture there is a chapter on holidays spent in Zebegény - unfortunately incomplete - whose page 51 starts with the following interesting detail: "...Honourable. ... He was fond of constructing walls on the Danube-bank, designing houses and dealing with grounds, I often assisted him with. We often worked together - in trunks - in quiet summer afternoons. He was telling - I was drawing. In Master Gyula's mind, there was a medieval castle with towers and I had tremendous difficulty in dissuading him from it. It was a great struggle when I planned his two-storied house on the Danube-bank - just for friendship - and we furnished it with valuable old furniture, huge wardrobes of Maria-Theresa period. There are real, first-rate Renaissance railings on the house, I do not know at which scrap-dealer, who had not known its value, he got it. ... Poor Gyula, he suddenly died after an operation. His house - as he had not got a will - was inherited by an ex-mayor, who he had never mentioned his any relationship to.

6 We can discover who this Master Gyula was and which house it is about from the letter written by Melinda Bartóky, Mrs. Szőnyi, to one of her acquaintances, Lajos Voit. "The house of Gyula Schwarzmaier and Lajgerli became the B building of the Holiday Home of Public Servants", it is 26, Táncsics Mihály Street, later no.

34, topographic number 100. 7 In 1996, it was privatised and the new owner is going to start its reconstruction. The house, some meters lower than the Maróti-villa, was built next to the water-bank contrary to the other country cottages, which had been built on the upper end of the ground because the owners had considered recurrent floods. You can get to the building from the old highway through a small lane, from where you can see the beautiful wrought-iron fence, though the gate has already been stolen unfortunately, now it is replaced with unsuitable iron bars. The railing of the balcony is still there, this may be what Maróti wrote about in his diary: "there are first-rate Renaissance railings on the house". The general effect, the proportions but even the smaller solutions of the building show analogy with the Maróti-villa. The documents available and the stylistic-critical examinations make it presumable that Géza Maróti designed this house as well. "Id. p. 51 7 Mrs. Szőnyi's letter to Lajos Voit, Bp. District XI. Tass Vezér u. 28. Szőnyi Museum, Repertory of Documents, IX/I/6.