Budapest Régiségei 24/1. (1976)

PESTI ÁSATÁSOK = EXCAVATIONS CONDUCTED IN PEST = RASKOPKI V PEST - Csorba Csaba: Pest városfalának vázlatos története 349-368

as Pest is concerned. These facts render the researcher' s task difficult, because under such circumstances, for want of written sources and archaeological data no representations can be drawn in to help in the elucidation of the single periods of building between the 1518th centuries. Thus research can rely merely on analogies and theoretical considerations. The Pest town wall remained intact up to the end of the 18th century. First the gates, then sections of the wall and round bastions were pulled down when the modernization of the town and hence that of the roads took place. However, along Tolbuchin Blvd, Múzeum Blvd and Tanács Blvd long sections of the wall are still to be seen, mostly as structures which form the boundaries between plots. In connection with the research on the town wall of Pest we had reckoned the areas covered by Buda, Pest and several other Hungarian towns encircled by walls by the geodetic surveyor Pál Héjjas (no such data were at disposal for Hungáriám historical research so far). Pest, covering 55 hectares in the late Middle Ages, made out exactly the half of Buda. The larger ones otthe other Hungarian towns extend over about 50 hectares. This value is surpassed by Pécs, Pozsony and Sopron, the latter being almost of the size of Buda. The calculation of the planimetric data also helps in reckoning the populations of the towns, since for several of our medieval towns there are no other written sources to be used for this purpose. (Figures: 93-94) 366