VII. Budapest district
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VII. Budapest district Erzsébetváros Elisabethstadt |
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| State : | Hungary | ||
| Region : | Central Hungary | ||
| County : | Budapest | ||
| Coordinates : | 47 ° 30 ' N , 19 ° 4' E | ||
| Area : | 2.09 km² | ||
| Residents : | 64,451 (Jan. 1, 2011) | ||
| Population density : | 30,838 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postal code : | 1071-1078 | ||
| KSH kódja: | 29744 | ||
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| Community type : | district | ||
| Structure : | Districts
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| Mayor : | Péter Niedermüller (DK) | ||
| Postal address : | Erzsébet krt. 6 1073 Budapest |
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| (Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal ) | |||
The VII. District in the Hungarian capital Budapest is also known as Erzsébetváros ( German Elisabethstadt ). Before World War II , it was the center of the city's Jewish community.
The name of the Elisabethstadt district is derived from the Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary .
The district was laid out in the middle of the 19th century. During the German occupation in World War II , Adolf Eichmann ordered the establishment of a ghetto in Erzsébetváros, where around 60,000 Jews were locked up in a confined space. Thanks mainly to foreign aid, around three quarters of the population survived the war, significantly more than in many other ghettos.
The building fabric of the district was hardly damaged by the war, not even during the final battle for Budapest , and hardly changed during the Hungarian socialism. As a result, many old buildings have been preserved to this day, but some of them are in poor condition. In many of the old buildings there are now the so-called "ruin bars", which attract a young, party-loving audience and have made the area a popular nightlife district. Elisabethstadt is strongly influenced by gentrification .
photos
Madách tér
Blaha Lujza tér
Synagogue in Dohány utca
Rózsák tér with the parish church of St. Elisabeth
The Evangelical Church in the Városligeti fasor
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Between demolition and departure. Elisabethstadt in Budapest. Deutschlandfunk . November 19, 2005, accessed February 24, 2019.