Kiss Katalin: Industrial Monuments - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1993)
enough. What he knew about the world, he saw with his own eyes, received into his heart and mind. That little town, which could easily be looked over in space and in time, has became a complicated, large city with complex inner networks. It is sometimes frightening and incomprehensible for people who live in it. The face of our city is wrinkled by the years of its rugged youth. To these facelines also belong the buildings left to us from the period of Budapest’s industrial boom. Let us try to find, with the help of this booklet, the most beautiful ones-our unknown acquaintances. The Castle Garden Pavilion I, Ybl Miklós tér 9 The Castle Garden Pavilion was built between 1875 and 1882 on the basis of the plans of Miklós Ybl. Ybl was the most outstanding Hungarian architect of the late 19th century. He designed many famous buildings in the capital, including the Opera House, the former Savings Bank of Buda, the Rác Baths, the Customs House on the banks of the Danube, the structures around the Castle Garden, several aristocratic palaces, both existing and now destroyed buildings on Margitsziget (Margaret Island), and many other public and private buildings. The Castle Garden Pavilion was built to mark the borders of the gardens around the Royal Palace of Buda It was built at the same time as the Castle Garden Bazaar. The free-standing building hid the pump-room which provided the royal castle with water, which was drawn from the Danube, filtered and pumped up to the palace. The first stock of the building contained staff dwellings. The chimney of the boilers was hidden by the ornamental tower. The small pumping plant was completed on its northern side by an elegant pavilion, with an entry decorated by loggia. The eclectic pavilion was a decorative blend of Renaissance and Baroque elements. Its graceful sculptural ornaments were made by György and Ármin Schröffl, and the grotesque sgraffito frescoes by Róbert Scholtz. Between the two world wars, and for a while even later, the Castle Garden Pavilion was a popular place of 6
