Royal apartment building
The Royal Apartment Building (Hungarian Királyi bérház ['kiraːji' beːrhaːz] or Királyi bérpalota ['kiraːji' beːrpɒlotɒ]) is a monumental residential and commercial building in Budapest's Franciscan Square in the V district . The townscape-defining house was built from 1899 to 1902 in an eclectic style with a mixture of neo-classicism and art nouveau styles .
location
The concave-quadrangular property of the building is bordered by four sides of the street: from the north and east by the Franziskanerplatz , in the south by the Curia utca ( Kuriengasse ), in the west by the Veres Pálné utca (formerly Grünbaumgasse / Zöld Fa utca ).
Its official address is Ferenciek tere 2 . The main entrance is on the north side at Ferenciek tere (formerly Schlangenplatz ). Directly in front of the main entrance is a staircase to the pedestrian underpass leading to the Ferenciek tere subway station (line 3) .
history
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construction
The imposing royal apartment building on the southeast side of the former Schlangenplatz (today Franziskanerplatz ) was built according to the plans of the Hungarian architects Flóris Korb and Kálmán Giergl on the site of the Royal Hungarian Curia ( Supreme Court ), which was demolished during the construction of the Elisabeth Bridge . The client was the general management of the private and family funds of Seiner k. and k. Apostolic Majesty , d. H. the Austrian Emperor and Hungarian King Franz Joseph I , who personally approved the construction plans and inspected the construction work twice. The monumental appearance of the house, decorated with stone towers, gables and grandiose roof volumes, refers to the Klothilden palaces, also commissioned by members of the ruling family and designed by the same architectural duo . The first residents were members of the nobility and the high officials of the imperial-royal administration.
In the 20th century
The Habsburgs sold the building for financial reasons during the First World War . The proclamation of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 brought serious changes to the life of the house. With the collapse of the monarchy, most of the residents left the house, and the property management itself was also eliminated. In front of the house and the Klothilden palaces, a provisional victory gate, covered with red cloth, was built to commemorate the dethronement of the Habsburgs.
The four-story house had 24 (now 66) upper-class apartments and 12 business rooms on the ground floor. From Fiume originating Brothers Deisinger opened in the corner shop Fratelli Deisinger , one of the largest tea and grocery store in the Hungarian capital. The luxury shop, colloquially just called Fratelli , operated under the name of Csemege Delicatessen as one of the rare shops that carried imported goods from western countries during socialism . During the Second World War , the entire roof structure burned out, the reconstruction took place in a greatly simplified form.
Redevelopment
With the election of a new property management representative, Tamás Rádiusz, whose family has lived in the house for three generations, the gradual renovation of the now almost dilapidated building began. The stone facades, which had been discolored black for decades, have been cleaned in recent years, and the interiors, which were painted gray under socialism “for political reasons”, were given their original Habsburg yellow color again. There are still private apartments in the house.
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The original appearance of the four-storey building was characterized by a richly structured facade, an elaborate roof landscape with stone turrets, ornamental lattices and a temple gable between the two domed central projections. These two domes are in harmony with the towers of the neighboring Klothilden palaces and thus form an almost uniform building ensemble. The stone-clad north and east facades facing the square are richly decorated with colossal columns , obelisks and other sculptural ornaments. The street-side, plastered south and west facades are kept simpler. The building has two stately stairwells, the wings are connected by a glazed inner courtyard. One of the six service staircases was destroyed by an air raid in World War II and was never rebuilt. The balcony above the main entrance is supported by two atlases formed as herms , representing Hungarian tribal men .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ A Királyi-bérpalota. Translation: The royal apartment building. In: urbface.com. Retrieved July 26, 2020 (Hungarian).
- ↑ Ház története. Translation: History of the House. Retrieved on July 26, 2020 (Hungarian, website of the property management of the royal apartment building).
- ↑ A Királyi-bérpalota. In: UrbFace. Retrieved July 26, 2020 (Hungarian).
- ↑ Felújítások története 1998-tól. In: berpalota.hu. Retrieved on July 26, 2020 (Hungarian, website of the royal apartment building).
- ↑ János Gerle: Basket Flóris - Giergl Kálmán . In: Az építészet mesterei [masters of architecture] . Holnap Kiadó, Budapest 2010, ISBN 978-963-346-886-9 , p. 101-105 .