Tanulmányok Budapest Múltjából 30. (2002) – Az ötven éves Nagy-Budapest – előzmények és megvalósulás
Czaga Viktória: Egy világváros margóján – Pesthidegkút 217-231
Czaga Viktória Egy világváros margóján - Pesthidegkút Viktória Czaga On the Margin of the Metropolis - Pesthidegkút Hidegkút, (meaning: 'cold well'), laying in the neighbourhood of Buda, the medieval Royal seat, was named after its spring abounding in fresh water. It is first mentioned in a charter from 1255. After 1451 it became desolated. After the liberating fights of the 17 th century, the reoccupation of Buda from the Turks gave way to new life. On 5 th July 1711 the landowner, Kurz János Antal, royal chamberlain, made a treaty with German settlers to cultivate the land. The narrow boundaries of the new homeland did not give an opportunity for exceeding wealth for the families called 'Sváb's (Swabians), or for their descendants, but the 18 th and 19 th centuries were the time of peaceful prosperity, when they could live out their customs and culture. Even at the beginning of the 20 th century the main bulk of the population remained agrarian. Their number was 1559. Their moderate income from selling vegetables and fruits at the marketplace of Buda was completed by mining stone, burning lime, making bricks and transportation. Between 1890 and 1941 the number of its inhabitants sextupled, the growth being partly the consequence of people migrating from the capital and the outcome of the Trianon Peace Treaty after worl War I. The removal of the population after the World War II effected a loss for the the German-speaking inhabitants of Pesthidegkút which could not havbe been recovered since then and it has also retarded the development of the village. The deserted German households were given to people removed from Czechoslovakia. The community heading for a slow development rejected the idea of uniting with the capital. Nevertheless it was worked out, but it did not bring about advantages for either party - it resulted mutual disadvantages . The problems of Pesthidegkút, the development of its road-network and infrastructure, were not solved by joining the settlement to Budapest, they were preserved. 231
