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

The First Hungarian Brewery Share Co., 1902

to do the same on industrial buildings. Only in special cases, when it was necessary because of the place and the environs, were industrial buildings “dressed” this way. In the suburbs it was enough to build factories and workshops with a simple, functional appearance.

At the beginning of the 20th century the situation changed. On the one hand, the epoch of historical styles came to an end, and on the other, industrialization gained ground in Hungary. In few decades so many industrial plants were built that their appearance could no longer be neglected. The new experiments in style took into consideration not only new building materials, but also the latest conceptions of “industrial building”. Acknowledgement of this made it possible to build factories without hiding their function. Attractive brick panelling, emphasized cornices, fences and gates, and many other small details, served only as decoration on the mass of the buildings determined by their function. These important changes in the history of architecture can be clearly studied in relation to the breweries.

Until the middle of the 19th century we know only of some little brewhouses in Budapest. The mass production of beer began in the years following the 1848-49 War of Independence, primarily in the suburb of Kőbánya (today’s 10th district), where the water was of excellent quality, which was very important for beer production.

In the 1850s no buildings stood on the site of the

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