Zeidler Miklós: Sporting Spaces - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2000)

ful, well-balanced Neo-Renaissance building was the fact that it housed the largest banqueting hall of the capital together with a billiards and card-playing club. Almost completely rebuilt to plans by Rezső Ray, the shooting gallery had become, by October 1932, the largest and most modern shooting range in Europe, according to contemporary reports. Besides dozens of rifle stands, the architect also found room for five archers’ ranges. Badly damaged in World War 11, the shooting gallery was renovated and reopened in June 1947. In principle, the building still belongs to the Budapest Civilian Shooters’ Association, but the marksmen have moved out, and proprietorship has been an object of litigation for the past few years.

There are several more sports facilities in the middle of the square. There is a full-size football pitch and a tarpaulined tennis court, and it is also Marczibányi

The deserted rifle-range at Marczibányi tér

16