Buza Péter: Spring and Fountains - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1994)
sculptor had seen Pecz wearing this historical attire at a fancy dress ball in those days of yore when it was not beneath respectable professional men to join the dancers. If for no other reason, they perhaps deserve a statute on that account. The Széchenyi Fountain, made by Ede Teles and erected in Szabadság tér in 1930, is an homage to one particular person. It is a modest edifice with a relief. The bronze plaque features characters in a scene connected to the location-Cres- tentia Seilern, wife of István Széchenyi, can be seen planting a sapling in the first public park of Pest. Today there is hardly any trace of the many thousands of young trees that took root after being planted in sandy soil at that time. “Virulj”, the Hungarian word urging the trees to bloom, with which Cres- tentia encouraged her own sapling according to the plaque, has gone unheard. The fountain is a monument evoking memories of happier days. The memorial fountain in the Castle District erected to commemorate the centenary of the death of Ferenc Kazinczy, the apostle of Hungarian language, dates back to 1936. This The Kazinczy Memorial Fountain !Rflp (;Ej|i rttMMi IS.fl- 111! 47
