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

mansion on the southern side of Szentháromság tér, on the spot where a playground lies today. His office, previously an important one, had no more than titular significance after the Battle of Mohács.

From 1853 Róbert Volkmann, composer, master of Romantic songs, and the first professor of musical composition at the academy lived next door at No. 3. (From 1841, he had lived in Pest, from where he sent his reports to the Allgemeine Wiener Musikzeitung. In 1848 he was employed as the organist of the Neolog synagogue in Pest. His many works with a Hungarian theme include twelve musical poems entitled Visegrádi, improvisations entitled Au tombeau du comte Széchenyi and further improvisations inspired by the poems of József Bajza.)

The building at No. 10 also has a musical connection. Here was born violinist Károly Matyéka, chairman of the Brassó Philharmonists. The house is joined to No. 9 Úri utca.

The Esterházy Mansion used to stand on the spot of today’s school building at No. 9-11 Tárnok utca. In the 14th century there used to be a chapel named after St. Ladislas in the southern half of the plot, in the graveyard of the Church of Our Lady (Matthias Church). There is documentary evidence of its existence in the form of a charter dated 1334.

The modern apartment building at No. 13 embraces a Gothic ground-floor level complete with sedilia. The house decorated with exterior ornamental painting at No. 14 bears the number “114” over a small window. The painted number appeared after reconstruction of the building in 1750. A minor stroke of fortune amidst universal disaster was that after the building had been severely damaged in World War II its medieval wall- remnants came to light, and hence it became possible to restore the fagade to its original, late 14th century condition. Itself resting on flat arcs of brick, the upper level rises above the arcades of the ground floor.

The building of the former city pharmacy stands at the corner of the small Anna utca; the foundations of this are also of medieval origin. On its Tárnok utca facade (No. 18) there is an upper niche with a Madonna statue by Margit Kovács, ln 1712 the building was owned by surgeon Lőrinc Stockher, and then in 1745

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