Gál Éva: Margaret Island - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2000)
Where ferryboats püt in The club and boat house of the Hungária Rowing Association was built to the south of this in 1911; in the place of the defunct building now stands the Honvéd Europe House. The Hungária was a “genteel” club, like the other sports associations that had their bases on Margaret Island. Its honorary members, board members and regular members included several leading figures of the political and economic life of the inter-war period, such as István Bethlen, Tibor Eckhardt, Gyula Gömbös, Kuno Klebeisberg, Henrik Haggenmacher, Antal Sorg, János Lingel, Gyula Somogyvári, Jenő Huszka and many more celebrities of the period. A number of further club and boat houses were built in the 1930s along this section of the riverbank — the one belonging to the Seagull Rowing Association was designed by Pál Ligeti and György Révész. The building still exists and is used partly for sports-related purposes, but it is, needless to say, in a poor state of repair. In 1937 the club house of the Pannónia Rowing Association was built above this to plans by Tibor Hübner. The fine, modern building fell victim to the war, and although its architectural value would have deserved a better fate, its ruins have not been rebuilt. In the place of two older 58
