Urbs - Magyar várostörténeti évkönyv 4. (Budapest, 2009)
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446 Abstracts importance, particularly with the Turkish peril in mind, and also served as a screen - on such as health and commercial criteria - for those wishing to enter. Water, and institutions connected with it, such as water pipes and baths, bore significance primarily for nutrition, but were also important for hygiene and social life. Besztercebánya already had water supply pipes during the period, led into buildings and gardens, and maintained by the town. The baths, in addition to hygienic activities, were venues of social life and also repositories for poor relief. The Ring originally took form among the land owned by mining burghers in the 13th century, but by this period Ringbürgers included merchants and farmers as well as mine-owners. ADRIENN PAPP The development of Tabán during the Ottoman Occupation The Tabán district has long been laid out as a park, and has therefore not been the site of large-scale building projects. It has therefore yielded much less archaeological data than elsewhere in historic Buda. Major excavations led by Sándor Garády were carried out during the demolition of Tabán, and in recent years excavations have been linked to reconstruction and development work in the baths. During the Turkish Era, Tabán covered the flat area bounded by Gellért Hill, Naphegy hill, Várhegy hill and the Danube, absorbing the medieval district and building up on a larger area, encroaching on the slopes of the surrounding hills. It is interesting that work on reorganising the area started almost immediately after the capture of Buda. By the end of the period of office of Sokollu Mustafa Pasha in 1578, Rác Baths, Rudas Baths, Ibrahim Chaush’ mosque, Sokollu Mustafa’s mosque, Hindi Baba’s monastery and Sokollu Mustafa Pasha’s caravanserai were all in place. Excavations have shown convincingly that the two baths were built from scratch, but there have been none to determine whether the other buildings were new or involved conversion of existing buildings. The mosque incorporated into today’s parish church is also presumed to have been newly built. A striking example of the conversion of medieval buildings followed by their complete demolition has been found at the site of a medieval spring head which continued in use at the start of the Turkish Era. The original building and those around it were knocked down in 1571 to make way for one of Buda’s most imposing Turkish-Era buildings, the Rudas Baths. The Turkish Era quarter outgrew its medieval boundaries and spread westward to embrace the area of the present park and the still built-up stretch along the Danube.
