Demeter Zsófia - Gelencsér Ferenc: Örvendezz király város! - Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei. B. sorozat 51. A Fejér Megyei Múzeumegyesült kiadványai 8. (Székesfehérvár, 2002)
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on the left. From Ferenc Schmidl’s album (photo by Károly Tóth). 88. The Ethnographic Room of the exhibition of the Museum in 1937. From Ferenc Schmidl’s album (photo by Károly Tóth). 89. The construction work of National Flag Square was continued on the other side of Castle Boulevard: Szelke Manor was just demolished in 1935 to 1936, thus, you can clearly see the Vinegar Factory and Pickling Plant of the Karl Company in Kígyó Street, which were later demolished, too. The lot made here also received a tenement house, the so called ‘Iron’ House. 90. Eisenbarth House in 1935. The excavation could be started in the Garden of Ruins when it had been demolished (photo by Tibor Molnár). 91. The first sod cut by the Minister of Education Bálint Hóman to start the excavation in the Garden of Ruins on 29th April 1936. 92. The Garden of Ruins made in 1938 with a nice and tranquil atmosphere. 93. View from under the arcades of the Garden of Ruins. The house opposite was owned by photographer Károly Tóth. The house had a sky-lighted atelier, too. It was destroyed in 1944. 94. The wall of the St. Stephen’s Mausoleum built in the Garden of Ruins was decorated by the seccos by Vilmos Aba Novák, which has been renewed and can be seen again. 95. Picture card of the City Hall. Photo by Imre Bekey in the early 1930s showing the Hall after the first reconstruction in 1912 but before the reconstruction in 1938. 96. The passage made in 1912, connecting the Bierbauer House owned by the town already at that time to the old City Hall, still leaving the street character of the City Hall Close. Early 1930s. 97. The back of City Hall Close in the early 1930s. In front to the right the Obermeyer House, the former Hungarian School, beside the Kunze House, a gratis ambulatory, the former German School. 98. The east side of the court of the City Hall, with the sculpture unknown almost to date. The sculpture was not mentioned by the tourist guide published in 1926, nor that published in 1930. These guides depicted a Roman sarcophagus from Csákvár, and a marble tablet in memory of the demolition of the Buda Gate, this latter was placed on the wall of the Seminary Church in 1935. Finally, Dr. Béla Ágoston helped identify the sculpture, who recognized at first sight that the photo resembles the sculpture of Count Lajos Batthyány, first responsible Hungarian Prime Minister erected in Ikervár in 1913, molded by Jenő Bory as early as 1904-, The plaster molding of this sculpture was standing under the canopy in the court of the City Hall until the reconstruction of the building. The plaster model is standing in the Hundred-Columns court of Bory Castle. 99. Watering carts and a sweeper in front of the City Hall before the reconstruction of the building. 100. The reconstruction of the City Hall started with the demolition of the Bierbauer House in 1936. 101. The Obermayer House still standing on the site assigned for demolition. The Ormai Inn was located also here. 1936. From Ferenc Schmidl’s album (photo by Károly Tóth). 102. The reconstructed City Hall viewed from the Main Street. 103. The office of Mayor Csitáiy. 104. The room of the Public Utilities Director in the reconstructed City Hall at the end of the 1930s. Adolf Gelb and Ferenc Schmidl. From Ferenc Schmidl’s album. 105. A gobelin by István Pekáry has been a valuable treasury of the Mayor’s Office since 1938. 106. Painter Vilmos Aba Novák while drafting the scene of Champion Graduation 246
