Andrássy út

Andrássy út ( German: Andrássy Street; formerly 1876-1885: sugárút (radial road ), 1950-1956: Sztálin út ( Stalin Street), 1956-1957: Magyar Ifjúság útja (Street of Hungarian youth), 1957-1990: Népköztársaság útja ( street of the people's Republic of )) is the most famous, approximately 2.5 kilometer long boulevard road in Hungary's capital Budapest, which connects downtown with the city Park and heroes Square.

The stretch of road was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site together with the running under the road Földalatti ( oldest metro line in continental Europe ) 2002.

History

Until the 19th century, parallel to the Andrássy út running Király utca was considered a main street of the 6th district of Budapest Terézváros. The relatively narrow Király utca but managed from the middle of the 19th century no longer able to cope with the growing traffic.

In the newspaper Pesti Hírlap appeared in 1841 in Lajos Kossuth's essay What needs the city of Pest, in order to lay the foundation for a capital city? the idea of ​​a tree-lined avenue between the city center and the City Park. " What would dodge for the Budapest nicer and cozier than to walk among shady tree rows as in a park or coach ride from the Chain Bridge to the City Park and the close Király utca with their boring, never-ending row of houses. "

Prime Minister Gyula Andrássy took the idea up again, however, it came to resistance in Parliament to higher road network because of the missing links. Only in December 1870, the Parliament could decide the necessary budget for the construction of the road in 60 Journal of Laws.

So already started in 1871, the construction work. In the same year, the government decided the establishment of the great ring road. Both major boulevards should be cut to the octagonal open wide and place octagon.

The road was soon made ​​, the construction of the houses went ahead slowly. Many old existing building had to be demolished at the beginning of the construction work, which is why some 10,000 residents were between time homeless. According to the original plans, the construction of the road should be completed by 1872, within 5 years, the surrounding houses were given a period of 10 years for the construction.

As planners and architects was commissioned Ybl and István Linczbauer. The uniform style owes the road of emerging just at this epoch eclectic neo-Renaissance.

The economic crisis of 1873 slowed the construction work. In addition, in 1876 gave several companies acquired their reasons back to the city because they could not build their buildings within the time limits set by contract. A new broad construction wave began, although these are no longer concerned about financial entrepreneurs, but rather the middle and upper classes and the aristocracy. Among them were other Kálmán Szili, Mihály Szemler, Count István Erdődy, Countess Iona Keglevich, Count Aurél Dessewfy, Countess Zichy Jánosné. They built especially in the outer part beyond the ring road, which was installed loosely with villas.

At the height of today's opera was on swampy ground a csárda of dubious repute, which hindered the construction of the road for long. It finally succeeded in also that land for the construction of the road to expropriate.

The original coating of road consisted of wooden pavement in order to save the horses' hooves.

In October 1876, the road was completed and ( German: Radial Road ) sugárút called. It was not until 1885 and given its present name Andrássy út, named after Count Gyula Andrássy.

During the period of Communist- Socialist People's Republic between 1945 and 1990, the street was renamed several times. Only after the turn of 1990, the road got its old familiar name.

With the approaching millennium celebrations in 1896, the question came up for a mass transportation between the city center and the City Park, where new construction projects were built as part of the celebrations and was expected larger crowds of visitors. It was decided due to the excitation of the Director General of the Budapest trams, Mór Balázs, for the construction of an underground railway, which was built within a record time of two years.

Structure

Andrássy út can be divided into three sections:

• Deák Ferenc tér - Octagon: avenue boulevard character, enclosed construction with 3 to 4 storey apartment buildings.
• Octagon - Kodály körönd: Closed-back design, but not so high. Here are also two tree-lined side roads.
• Kodály körönd - Heroes' Square: The road will be wider and is surrounded by palaces and villas and gardens in an open design.

Significant house numbers

Postal Museum

The Postal Museum is located in the Andrássy út 3 display will be pieces from the 18th and 19th centuries in the postal and telecommunications services. The museum's collection includes more than 20,000 individual specimens, 67,000 documents and 15,000 books.

Founded in the Postal Museum zwischen 1885 and 1890. The first permanent exhibition was in 1955 in the tower rooms of Buda Post palace. In 1972, the museum, the end of the 19th century was built and today is a listed building in the Andrássy út 3 Today, the collection of the Foundation for Post and Telecommunications ( Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány ) is regretted.

More

• Opera House, Andrássy út 22
• Művész Kávéház, traditional artist - cafe opposite the Opera House, Andrássy út 29
• Divatcsarnok, department store Andrássy út 39
• Lukács Cukrászda, old famous pastry shop, Andrássy út 70
• Ballet Institute
• Goethe -Institut
• The " Pest Broadway " - the theater district around Nagymező utca
• Liszt Ferenc tér and Jókai tér - famous places of amusement
• Út intersection of the main ring road with the Andrássy - Octagon
• House of Terror, now a museum, formerly the headquarters of the state police in the Andrássy út 60
• Old Academy of Music, Andrássy út 67
• Franz Liszt Memorial House
• Bábszínház Budapest, Andrássy út 69
• Ancient Art Hall
• Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Andrássy út 69-71
• Headquarters of the Hungarian State Railways, Andrássy út 73-75
• Zoltán Kodály Memorial House, Kodály körönd 1
• Office of the Association of Hungarian Journalists, Andrássy út 101
• Hopp Ferenc East Asian Art Museum, Andrássy út 103
• Turkish Embassy in Budapest, Andrássy út 123