Szatmári Gizella: Walks in the Castle District - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2001)

“Honvéd” Memorial in Dísz tér (György Zala)

bronze of the monument comes from the state foundry of Compaignie des Bronces, Belgium., where the statue was cast, symbolically as it were, from metal used for making cannons. The bronze wreath on the plinth was donated by Hungarian women in token of their respect and gratitude.

The statue rises above the ruins of the St. George Church built in the second half of the 14th century, under King Louis the Great. That is how the former name of the square, once used as Buda’s marketplace, originated.

The building at No. 1 Tárnok utca, which connects Dísz tér and Szentháromság tér, is noted for its chronogram: the letters highlighted in the inscription above the gate express, when read as Roman numerals, the date of the reconstruction whereby the building was converted for András Palkovits, Surgeon General of Buda (1795). (Incidentally, the first proprietors after 1686 were merchants Frigyes and Farkas Sauttermeister.)

The street was named in memory of Count József Brunszvik. Brunszvik, the last tárnokmester, an archaic Hungarian word for treasurer, of the country had a

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