Kiss Katalin: Industrial Monuments - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1993)

The former Goldberger Dyeing Works

Ferenc Goldberger installed his dyeing and calico printing works in a two-storey Baroque building at Lajos utca 136-138.

(Calico or indigo printing comes from East Asia and India, and is one of the oldest industries of the world. It became popular in Europe in the second half of the 18th century. Indigo is a tropical shrub. The textiles painted with indigo were very popular because the colour resisted light and soap, and the textile was also protected against various physical influences.)

The former dyeing factory can be seen on the side nearest the Danube of the enormous, regular textile works, and is inserted between factory buildings and chimneys. Its facade with seven windows is decorated with pilaster strips on the first floor. In the middle axis of the ground floor an entry opens with a triple-centred arch and stone framing. The building has been recon14