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A lágymányosi telek története - The History of the Site in Lágymányos GY. Balogh Ágnes

The development of the area of Lágymányos started after the disastrous flood of 1838 with the purpose of flood-control and also to facilitate river-control. The sandbanks (named Kopaszi and Nyúlfutási] previously found at Lágymányos (Kopaszi and Nyúlfutási) as well as Csepel Island hold up the ice-drift in springtime, which was the reason why icy floods used to be regular. In line with Act X. of 1870, the Municipal Public Works Council drafted the control schemes, and the Ministry of Public Works and Transport launched the development project to construct the embankment along the control area of the Danube and a vast harbour in the area of today's Kopaszi Dam. First of all the bay of the Lágymányosi Lake was cut out from the widening Danube by constructing a dike south of Gellért Hill. However, the harbour and the industrial zone embracing it, completed with the Southern Railway Bridge (built from 1873 on), failed to live up to expectations as ships kept using the Embarkment (today: Széchenyi) Square. The control zone of the Danube, the development reaching south from today's Gellért Square and the evolving industrial zone (the premises of Zartl's chair manufactory, Kohn's distillery and Brunner's brickworks) are already shown in the map of Buda drawn in 1870. Kohn's distillery occupied the site of today's Library of the University of Technology, and was an enclosed courtyard, which is documented in a photograph made by György Klösz in 1890, along with the dam and the Lágymányos Lake. The structures of the distillation plant were used later on as preparatory buildings of the construction works of the university, and then only gradually demolished.

Although the area of Lágymányos was still a marshland, its advantageous downtown location along the Danube bank inspired a variety of development plans. The first scheme in 1873 proposed here a winter harbour, but the idea was rejected a year later. The Municipal Public Works Council projected large-scale urban development here in the 1870s. In line with these concepts, the new bridgehead was to be built on a would-be

A CAMPUS ÉPÜLETEI 1871-ES TÉRKÉPRE VETÍTVE

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