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

A MAGYAR MALOMIPAR

The József Cylinder Mill in Pest (contemporary engraving)

The Gizella Mill aroünd 1930

quickly wore out and polluted the flour. Flour production in Hungary at the beginning of this century exceeded 700 million kilos. With this capacity the city took first place in Europe, and second worldwide, after Minneapolis in the CJSA.

From the end of the First World War a gradual decline set in. The Concordia steam mill, founded in 1866, stopped working in 1929. The Museum of the Milling Industry, which presents the development of this economic sector in Hungary, has been installed in its empty rooms. The Gizella Mill has also been given over for other purposes. Today it is a store-house. The entrepreneurs who competed for the mill, presented various

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