Tanulmányok Budapest Múltjából 31. (2003)

A MÚLT RÉTEGEI - A SZENT GYÖRGY TÉR TÖRTÉNETE - Farbaky Péter: A Sándor-palota, a Teleki-palota és az udvari istálló : a Szent György tér épületeinek változásai az újkorban 137-160

A SÁNDOR-PALOTA, A TELEKI-PALOTA ÉS AZ UDVARI ISTÁLLÓ The Sándor Palace, the Teleki Palace and the Royal Stable Modifications of the Most Important Buildings on St. George Square in Modern Times The strategically significant territory lying between the royal palace and the city was occupied by the army after the siege of Buda in 1686. Two barracks were built on the walls of the mediaeval Franciscan monastery by 1696 on the eastern side of the area. After the buildings had lost their function they were bought by Count Vince Sándor from the Treasury in 1803 then he built a new neo-classic, aristocratic palace with an inner court. The northern and southern wings were absolutely new, the latter included the main entrance and the representative areas on the first floor. Reconstructions were finished by 1806, the state of the building from around 1820 was recorded on a series of sketches and in a description by Franz Schams found in the archives of the Pallavicini family who owned the palace from 1831. Between 1851-1856 Prince Regent Albrecht resided in the palace then after the Compromise in 1867 the office of the Prime Minister moved into the building. At that time architect Miklós Ybl was put in charge of the reconstruction of the palace and he designed the neo-baroque ornaments of the interior which were redesigned in neo-Empire style by Rezső Hikisch in 1927-1928. The building, mostly the southern wing was badly damaged in 1944-1945. The second floor of the eastern wing and the terrace over the Danube were demolished. The exteriors were reconstructed in the second half of the 1980s under the supervision of László Fodor and finally the complete reconstruction was finished by Ferenc Potzner between 1999 and 2002. The plot on the north-eastern side of the square was bought by Count József Teleki in a military auction in 1787 then he ordered architect Anton Fisches from Pozsony (Pressburg) to build a twostorey palace in 1789. The mass of the U-shaped buildings cube-like, to neo-classic taste. The palace was rebuilt by the designs of Lajos Frey and Lipót Kauser in 1869. It was bought by Archduke Joseph from the Treasury in 1892 then he commissioned architects Flóris Korb and Kálmán Giergl to rebuild the palace in historic style. The new entrance to the palace was removed from the eastern side facing the square to the northern side facing the garden. A new park was created in the place of the demolished houses on Szent György Square, which could be reached through the garden gates. While the eastern and southern wings of the Teleki palace remained relatively unchanged with new architecture, the western wing was extended, a new wing was built in the north with a central projection including the drive-way. The inner court got a new glass covering to transform it into a vestibule, from where a flight of stairs similar to the Habsburg Steps of the royal palace led to the ballroom on the first floor. The palace was badly damaged during the siege of Buda in 1944-1945, in 1949 permission was given to destroy the palace, and although the building was surveyed and documented in 1953 ready to be restored to its late Baroque state, all the remaining parts were demolished in 1968. Records have mentioned artillery barracks to the north of the Outer Court from 1712, then the Fortifications und Bauamt resided there from 1786. Several plans had been made to build a stable on the location by Franz Anton Hillebrandt and the Landesbaudirection in Buda but none of them were 159