Szatmári Gizella: Walks in the Castle District - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2001)

vator of the Hungarian language and organiser of the country’s literary life. A relief depicting the portrait of the writer himself is an unassertive feature of the plinth (1931). Nearby, at No. 53 Úri utca stood Kazinczy’s former prison—perhaps the reason why his memorial well was set up here. (Kazinczy was imprisoned for his participation in the “Jacobin”, i.e. republican, conspiracy headed by Ignác Martinovics. For the role he played in the plot, Kazinczy was sentenced to death on 8 May 1795, but was given mercy, and the capital punishment was converted to seven years’ imprisonment, which he served in Spielberg, Kufstein and Munkács.)

Three streets converge on Bécsi kapu tér—Táncsics Mihály utca, Fortuna utca and Petermann bíró utca, which is named after a magistrate of old and which leads to Kapisztrán tér.

This walk continues along Táncsics Mihály utca, in the direction of Mátyás-templom, or the Matthias Church, among the buildings of what was once the Jewish quarter. In the early 14th century, the Jewish population of the city lived, according to historian László Zolnay, on the western side of today’s Szent György tér (St. George Square), a fact mentioned by the Illuminated Chronicle (Képes Krónika) of 1358. Following their

Reliefs on the facade (No. 7 Bécsi kapu tér)

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