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

structed several times, and only the two vaulted windows to the right of the entry have been preserved in their original form. The building’s doorway and ground floor rooms are vaulted. This so-called “old roller” serves today as an office building, and cannot be visited.

It is very touching to look at this little modest building. In the course of time it became cramped and increasingly outdated, but the directorship of the works spared the old roller, in which their forefathers laid the foundations of their successful enterprise.

The former Óbuda Silk Winding Plant III, Harrer Pál utca 44

Among the modern tall blocks in Óbuda we can find an attractive building with a peculiar form. The history of this oval-shaped building dates from the late 18th century, when the first silk industry plant of the Habsburg Empire was established here with the support of Emperor Joseph 11.

The former Óbüda Silk Winding Plant

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