Tanulmányok Budapest Múltjából 31. (2003)

VÁROSTÖRTÉNETI TANULMÁNYOK - Horváth J. András: Nézetek és törekvések a budai várospolitikában 1867 és 1873 között 289-332

HORVÁTH J. ANDRÁS Aims and Aspirations of Local Politics in Buda 1867-1873 The lecture focuses on the manifestations and the deeds concerning the political activity of Buda royal city from the period of the compromise and the reconstruciton of the selfgovernmental rights in 1867, to the time of the city unification in 1873. That Act of 1872 extinguished centuries of independence in the cases of Buda, Pest and Óbuda. Still, the aldermen's great majority of Buda supported the aim of the government to establish a representative national centre, regarding only of marginal importance to the solicitudes occured around this process, though those weren't remained unmention. They rather favoured the governmental policy in the issues of nationwide scales too, opposing the fulminative declarations of other selfgovernments, which attacked the compromise. Although but a few couples of the old aldermen from the time of 1848 existed in 1867, the freedom-fighting traditions from those times lived vividly in the whole body, making considerable effect on the fields of symbolical, or on the human politics, regarding the appointing procedures of the city authority. The heavy burden of a debt didn't ease the situation of the city, bearing traditionally the name „Capital", which hindered seriously to develop any field of the administration, would it be matched to its city-rank. So, didn't secluded itself the city-management from the idea to transfer the businesses of the police to the government, as well. As for the public health, or the public sanitation it can be mentioned the serious tasks to menage with the several kinds of epidemics, or in the sphere of the public education, some reparations of smaller degree, of which administrative branch wasn't really able to cope with the growing public demands, and it is interesting mention too, the strong aspiration to promote the secularization. That latter aim grounded for ardent debates over the issue of the Pope's infallibility-dogm at the chamber of the city-council. The priorities of the city-planning coincided basically to that of the governmental aspirations, and the majoriy of the city-representatives looked forward to as a solution to win the government for this activity. 332