Kossuth tér
The Lajos Kossuth space is a historically significant place where the Danube remote longitudinal side of the Hungarian Parliament building in Budapest . It is located in the 5th district of Budapest and is connected to a station on the Budapest Metro Line 2. It has only borne the name of the Hungarian revolutionary Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894) since 1927 , before it was called Országház tér ("Parliament Square ", 1898-1927), Tömő tér or, in German, the town of Schopper Platz (1853-1898). The latter name refers to the backfilling of the swampy area near the Danube. Its first known name was Städtischer Auswindplatz (ship unloading area - 1820).
Towards the end of the 19th century, Imre Steindl's mighty parliament building (1885–1904) and today's Ethnographic Museum were built here, originally the Palace of Justice . The Ministry of Agriculture also flanks the square.
The normally quiet square in the government district was the site of numerous political demonstrations, for example on October 23 and 25, 1956 in connection with the Hungarian uprising - on the 25th, ÁVO was shot into the peaceful crowd by snipers from the political police . On March 15, 1989, the anniversary of the revolution of 1848 , an important rally took place here at the beginning of the democratic revolution.
In autumn 2006 there were weeks of demonstrations against the government of Ferenc Gyurcsány on the square, which resulted in several months of suspension.
The Kossuth tér is also distinguished by its monuments as a symbolic place of high political importance. The Kossuth memorial, completed in 1927, was removed after 1945 because it was designed “too little optimistically” and also reminded of other, aristocratic protagonists of Hungarian uprisings. For this, a statue of the poet Attila József (1905–1937) was erected after 1945 . Is that of since 1935 on the south side of the square János Pásztor created equestrian statue of Count Ferenc II. Rákóczi , the leader of the anti-Habsburg Hungarian insurgency from 1703 to 1711 . A memorial also commemorates the victims of 1956.
The Orbán government, elected in 2010, plans to reconstruct the overall artistic condition of the square from before 1944. Among other things, the Kossuth monument is to be rebuilt and existing monuments such as B. the one for Attila József (in the case of Attila 20 meters closer to the Danube bank).
literature
- Bob Dent: Every Statue Tells a Story - Public Monuments in Budapest , Budapest 2009
- Steindle Imre Program (SIP), Budapest 2011
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tamas Hofer: The Demonstration of March 15, 1989, in Budapest. A struggle for Public Memory , Harvard University, Program on Central and Eastern Europe Working Paper. Series No 16 - available as a web document
Coordinates: 47 ° 30 ′ 25 ″ N , 19 ° 2 ′ 50 ″ E