Csernus Lukács - Triff Zsigmond: The Cemeteries of Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

The mausoleum of prime minister Count Lajos Batthyány

constructed in a style of historicism to plans by the award winning Kálmán Gerster, after the statesman’s remains were brought back to Hungary from Turin in 1894. (The architect himself is buried in Section 39 behind the mausoleum.) The statues were all made by Alajos Stróbl, including a genius defeating a lion, a female figure with a crown on her head above, and the lions next to the entrance. Lajos Kossuth’s ornamental sarcophagus is in the middle of the inner space topped with a cupola; in the niches on each side his family members are interred, including two sons, also politicians. The mosaic covering the cupola was made by Miksa Róth to designs by Dezső Kőiben The complete renovation of the mausoleum is currently in progress. In Section 30 lies a Polish colonel called Mieczyslaw Woroniecky-Korybut, executed at the age of 27, with the heroes of the Hungarian War of Independence of 1848-49. In 1962, the ashes of Mihály Károlyi, president of the Hungarian republic of 1918, and those of his son, brought home from England, were buried in front of the mausoleum of Kossuth in Section 22; Károlyi’s wife Katinka Andrássy was laid to rest in the same sepulchral vault designed by Lajos Skoda. Walking towards the artists’ section, you reach the mausoleum, built in 1887, of Ferenc Deák, the statesman whose wisdom earned him the epithet “Sage of the Hation”. The structure, also designed by Kálmán Gerster, is ornamented with a bronze angel by György Kiss at the top, while there are frescos by Bertalan Székely inside. The sarcophagus, the work of Alajos Stróbl, has disappeared altogether.

Passing by a sculpture depicting a maternal figure by

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