Zádor Anna: Neoclassical Pest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1993)

to the church in Terézváros (Theresatown) was built in the first third of the nineteenth century.

There were various new features of János Hild’s town plan: the expansion it proposed was based on a regulated system of streets; previously existing buildings were incorporated into the plan and it did not neglect the system of streets branching in other directions, i.e. towards Városliget. However, its most important element was the principle of “beautification”, which, as a new aspect in the field of town planning, was not considered a pre-requisite at that time. There were few towns and cities where so much deliberate attention was devoted to aesthetic considerations in the process of planning.

It was to assert this principle that Viceroy József founded the Beautification Committee. The Hild-plan and the Beautification Committee played equally important roles in the creation of neoclassical Pest.

The neoclassical style, which, for the most part, grew out of the ideas of the Enlightenment, dominated the whole of Europe at this time. There was a longing in society for balanced, harmonious, rationally compre7