Csernus Lukács - Triff Zsigmond: The Cemeteries of Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

memorial of the recapture of Buda castle is a group of tur- baned tombstones inside the northern wall of the fortress on a bastion near the Bécsi kapu (Vienna Gate), which mark the graves of Turkish soldiers. There is another cluster of similar memorials along Kemal Atatürk promenade on the southern side.

The branch of the Habsburg family which once provided Hungary’s governors had its burial site in Buda Castle, too. After being pillaged and vandalised, the vault was restored to its former condition and the remains of the dead who had been reburied after the war abroad were returned home to be interred, once again, around the coffins of Palatine Joseph and his family. (The site can be accessed from inside the Hungarian National Gallery.) A reminder of the age of the dual monarchy is the last Hungarian soldier’s grave left in its original location outside a cemetery - in Pethényi út in the 12th district. This contains the remains of J. Kovács, a soldier who died in 1849. Another memento of the period is the grave of some Austrian officers on the precincts of the former military academy in Hűvösvölgy. Among the ashes moved here from the former Víziváros Cemetery are those of General Hentzi, military commander of the city, and of Colonel Allnoch. Their former, common headstone now stands, after being moved several times, among the Hungarian soldiers’ graves in Kerepesi Cemetery.

Having been kept in Vienna and then in Kerepesi Cemetery, the ashes of Ignác Semmelweis, “the saviour of mothers", were moved to the Museum of Medical History on the centenary of his death in 1965.

A particularly precious burial site is the family graveyard of József Törley, which is located on a hillside above the late champagne brewer’s own factory and mansion (Sarló utca, Budafok). Visible from a distance, its Art Nouveau superstructure was designed by Rezső Ray, while the sculptural decoration is the work of József Damkó.

The Belváros (Inner City) Parish Church is where Pál Kray's richly ornamented relief featuring the epitaph of the lieutenant-general can be found. In the same church, together with some other headstones brought here, stands a classicist relief, one of the few surviving works of István Ferenczy, above the tomb of writer and theatre manager István Kultsár. In the Kálvin tér Calvinist church lie the remains of András Fáy, that all-round servant of his country. In the recess where the body of Miklós Wesselényi was laid to temporary rest in 1850 before it was shortly transferred to his native Zsibó (where his monument has unfortunately perished), are now the remains of countess Zichy-Fer70