Nagykörút
Nagykörút (Nɒɟkøɾuːt; German "Great Ring Road") is an approximately semicircular, just over four kilometers long road in Budapest. It consists of the parts Szent István körút (length 533 m), Teréz körút (1054 m), Erzsébet körút (764 m), József körút (1223 m) and Ferenc körút (556 m). At the octagon , the 30 m wide boulevard crosses with the radial avenue Andrássy út . The Margaret Bridge ( Margit híd ) in the north and the Petőfi Bridge ( Petöfi híd ) in the south form its endpoints.
history
Instead of today's ring road , a flat tributary of the Danube once extended. Pest , the center of the settlement on the eastern bank of the Danube , was therefore in a militarily favored island location. However, the shallow river arm increasingly silted up. In 1867, the town planner Ferenc Reitter suggested making the water flow navigable and stabilizing it through a canal project with locks . After long debates, the large ring road was finally built in several stages from 1872 to 1896, following the course of the former tributary. It was one of the major projects of the Budapest Millennium of 1896. The Teréz körút and Erzsébet körút sections were renamed Lenin körút from 1950 to 1990.
Attractions
The Vígszínház Comedy Theater , the Budapest West Railway Station and the New York Café are located on the large ring . It is accessed by tram lines 4 and 6.
literature
- Ferenc Vadas: Budapest city planning in the 19th century , in: Peter Csendes , András Sipos : Budapest and Vienna: Technical progress and urban boom in the 19th century . Budapest, Vienna 2003, p. 19ff
Web links
- Nagykörút ( Hungarian )
- A Nagykörút építése, 1871. (Hungarian)
- Tourist summary