Kiss Katalin: Industrial Monuments - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1993)

Here the marvellous ceilings and structures should not be destroyed, but on the contrary, to be preserved even in the inner rooms of the building, for this is one of its excellent particularities. The individuality, the characteristic features of the old buildings, can and should be conserved.

The Abattoir

IX, Soroksári út 58

The construction and installation of the Budapest Central Abattoir was the most distinguished event of the city in the late 19th century. On the initiative of the Mayor Károly Kamermayer, the municipality undertook one of the most comprehensive enterprises of the period. In 1865 the municipality of Pest closed down several hundred private slaughter-houses and meat centres. The reason primarily concerned public health, for the driving and keeping of livestock and the storing of carcasses was carried out under unhygienic conditions and spread epidemics. In 1868 the municipality decided to build a slaughter-house under its own administration in the ploughfields along Soroksári út. The concentration of food processing in the southern part of Pest derived from the fact that the products and livestock transported from the Great Plain could easily reach the city here. The city council invited tenders for the slaughter-house

Gate of the Abattoir at the beginning of the centüry

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