Borza Tibor (szerk.): A Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum évkönyve 1970 (Budapest, Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum, 1970)

Gyenes József: Szállodák Pesten a XIX. században

J. GYENES HOTELS IN PEST IN THE 19 th CENTURY The Magyar Király Hotel It was built in 1814 at the corner of what we call today Vörösmarty Square and Dorottya Street in János Halzl café owner's enterprise. Its turnover was based on the consumption of the artists and public of the adjacent German theatre. Until 1840 it was the first hotel in Pest, where a café, a restaurant, a barber's shop, a beer-house, a hackney-coach served the passengers' comfort. It was the first hotel in Pest where the hotel-trade was organized in its modern sense. Among the famous occupants of the hotel can be counted Miklós Wesselényi, the enlightened Transylvanian aristocrat, several artists of the German theatre such as Sarolta Hagen, member of the Munich Royal Theatre and Fanny Ellsler, the then European-famed dancer. From 1860 on the hotel's fame gradually dropped. In 1871 it was recorded among the third-rate hotels with the completion of the Hungaria Grand Hotel. In 1860 it was run with 110 rooms where the average price of a room per day ranged from 2 to 20 Fts. From 1911 until his marriage Endre Ady, the famous Hungarian poet was its dweller as well. After World War I the hotel was made use of for other purposes the upkeep of which didn't prove profitable. It was pulled down in May, 1937. The Angol Királynő Hotel It was erected at the site of the old, so-called northern round bastion. Its name in 1792—93 was Café Kemnitzer. A European-renowned lodginghouse was run in the 3-storied house. As a riverside café it provided promenade walkers and gangway crossing passengers with food and beverages. By that time the building was the property of János Kemnitzer, wealthy burger at Pest. In 1838 the flood did not spare the KemnitzerMansion either; the installation of the ground-floor rooms dilapidated completely, its foundations needed some reconstruction just as well. The Kemnitzer family had the whole building rebuilt and inaugurated it as the Angol Királynő Hotel on August 25, 1893. The original idea was given by the coronation of Victoria, Queen of England in 1839. The contemporary 271