Kossuth Lajos tér, Budapest

The Lajos Kossuth Square is a historically meaningful place on the Danube facing away from the longitudinal side of the Hungarian Parliament building in Budapest. It is located in the 5th district of Budapest, accessible by a station of the Budapest Metro Line 2. He only since 1927 has the name of the Hungarian revolutionary Lajos Kossuth ( 1802-1894 ), before he was called Országház tér ( " Parliament Square ", 1898-1927 ), Tömő tér or, in German language city Schopperplatz ( 1853-1898 ). The latter name refers to the embankment of the Danube near swampy terrain. His first known name was Urban Auswindplatz (ship unloading - 1820 ).

Towards the end of the 19th century Imre Steindl's powerful parliament building ( 1885-1904 ) and the Museum of Ethnography, were built, originally the Palace of Justice. The square is also flanked the Ministry of Agriculture.

The normally quiet place in the government district was the site of numerous political demonstrations, such as on 23 and 25 October 1956 relating to the Hungarian national uprising - was shot on the 25th here by snipers of the political police AVO in the peaceful crowd. On March 15, 1989, the anniversary of the Revolution of 1848, a major rally took place at the beginning of the democratic changes here.

In the fall of 2006, there was on the court to week-long demonstrations against the government of Ferenc Gyurcsány and subsequently for several months barriers.

The Kossuth tér is also excellent for its monuments as symbolic place of great political importance. So in 1927, completed in Kossuth monument was removed in 1945 because it was "too little optimistic," designed and also noble protagonists Hungarian uprisings reminded to others. But after 1945 a statue of the poet Attila József ( 1905-1937 ) was built. On the south side of the square since 1935 is that established by János Pásztor Equestrian statue of Count Ferenc II Rákóczi, leader of the anti-Habsburg Hungarian uprising movement from 1703 to 1711. A memorial also commemorates the victims of 1956.

The 2010 elected Orbán government plans to reconstruct the overall artistic state of the place of before 1944. So shall also, among others, the Kossuth monument be erected again and existing monuments, such as that be, treated for Attila József ( In case Atillas 20 meters closer to the bank of the Danube )