Zugló
- Alsórákos
- Herminamező
- Istvánmező
- Kiszugló
- Nagyzugló
- Rákosfalva
- Törökőr
- City Park
Zugló is the name of the 14th district in Budapest. The old German name Lerch field is no longer used. The district lies to the east of the city center on the Pest side.
Location and data
The 14th district is located in the inner part of the city. To the north is the 4th District in the northwest of the 13th district and northeast of the 15th district. The eastern neighbor is the 16th district. To the southeast is the 10th district and south of the 8th district. Zugló bordered on the southwest by the 6th and 7th district. The district boundaries run along the line Dózsa György út - Vágány utca - Rákosrendező palyaudvar ( " Station Rákosrendező " ) - Rákosszentmihályi körvasút ( " Ringbahn Rákosszentmihály " ) - Kerepesi út.
With regard to the population of almost 120,000 Zugló takes the third place of the 23 districts of Budapest. With an area of about 18 km ², the 14th district is but only in the middle. Despite the relatively high population density of our Youth Hostel is a green district. It is often referred to as the lung of the city. For example, there is the City Park, the largest park in Budapest.
There are well- developed road and rail connections to the north of Buda, Pest to the inner areas and the Gödöllő HEV also to the surroundings of the capital.
The 14th district is divided into the following districts: Alsórákos, Herminamező, Istvánmező, Kiszugló, Nagyzugló, Rákosfalva, Törökőr and City Park.
History
On the site of today's Zugló there was the historic Rakos mezeje ( " Rákosfeld "). In the Middle Ages it was an uninhabited wooded swamps. There, the Hungarian National meetings were held 1286-1540. John Hunyadi was crowned in 1445 Rákosfeld. Otherwise took hunters and scavengers cancer, the area that were present in Rakos Brook ( " cancer -Bach " ) many cancers. In the course of urban development, the forests were gradually cut down.
Emperor Leopold I granted the territory of the city of Pest. In the 18th century it was reforested esp. with willows. With the spread of the city a sand desert resembling area of City Park in the 19th century were cultivated. Palatine Joseph was build in 1842 in memory of his deceased daughter Hermina Chapel. Since then, the history of the present district Herminamező is dated. Mid-19th century the first villas in today Hermina út and the Ajtósi - Dürer sor were built. In the 1880s and 1890s the building of houses started in today's Thokoly út and the Erzsébet királyné út, later also in the vicinity of Bosnyák tér. In 1869, a skating rink was opened on the lake in the City Park. The further development of the park took place in 1896 as part of the celebrations for the 1000th anniversary of the Conquest. In 1906, the Műcsarnok ( " Kunsthalle " ), the Museum of Fine Arts were completed and the Rakos Brook was led to the regulated lake. During this time, the ring road and the castle Vajdahunya that reflects the history of a thousand years style in Hungary as a three dimensional museum was established. Even before the turn of the century, a stretch of the Millennium railway was built. The road network in our Youth Hostel is still the urban planning of the time of the turn of the century. The radiating arrangement of roads facilitated the transport and joined the so-called sleeping districts and the agglomeration with the center. In the outer region settled in the early 20th century industrial enterprises.
The 14th district has been to 13 newly created as part of the 1930 agreed restructuring of the districts along with the districts of 11. Previously, the area belonged to the districts 6, 7 and 10 In the decades after the Second World War a number of buildings were út at the Füredi útca, Kerepesi who built Nagy Lajos Király útja and Kacsóh Pongrác út.
Mayor
Important streets and squares
Roads:
- Cinkotai út
- Dózsa György út
- Egressy út
- Erzsébet királyné útja
- Fogarasi út
- Füredi utca
- Fűrész utca
- Gvadányi utca
- Hungaria krt
- Kerepesi út
- Mexikói út
- Nagy Lajos Király útja
- Ond vezér útja
- Öv utca
- Rona utca
- Stefánia út
- Szentmihályi út
- Szugló utca
- Thokoly út
- Vezér utca
Places:
- Argentína tér
- Báthory István park
- Bosnyák tér
- Egressy tér
- Heldenplatz
- Kassai tér
- Nagybecskerek tér
- Ógyalla tér
- Ors vezér ( northern part)
- Rákosmezei tér
- Tihany tér
- Turán tér
- Újvidék tér
- Zoborhegy tér
Building:
- Kunsthalle
- Museum of Fine Arts ( " Museum of Fine Arts " )
- Castle Vajdahunyad
- Széchenyi Bath
- Közlekedési Muzeum ( " Transport Museum " )
- Petőfi Csarnok ( " Petőfi Halls" )
- Department of Geography Budapest (Magyar Állami Földtani Intézet ) by Odon Lechner
- Faculty of Architecture Ybl ( Ybl Miklós Építéstudományi Kar )
- Papp László Budapest Sports
Culture
In Zugló the Evangelical Lutheran Theological University is ( Evangélikus Hittudományi Egyetem ). In the field of secondary education, the two arts schools Szent István Király Szakközépiskola Academy of Music and the Alapfokú Művészetoktatási Intézmény be mentioned.
Famous people
- Oszkar Asbóth, the inventor of the helicopter Asbóth lived in the 1920s in the Gyarmat utca 7 / c.
- The poet, writer and translator Mihály Babits lived from 1901 to 1905 in the Dózsa György út 11
- The pianist Mihaly Bacher had 1981-1987 domiciled in Ajtósi Dürer sor 5
- The historian and writer Ferenc Fejtő lived from 1931 at Lima Nova tér 1
- The writer and philosopher Béla Hamvas lived from 1945 until his death in 1968 in the Erzsébet királyné útja 13
- The director Zoltán Huszárik lived in Columbus utca 38
- Who died in 2006, cinematographer György Illés lived in the Rona utca 171
- The poet Attila József spent the years 1933-1936 in the Korong utca 6
- Frigyes Karinthy, also a poet, writer and translator was in the Thokoly út 95 at home ..
- The actor Kálmán Latabár lived until his death in 1970 in the Dózsa György út 17
- The poet László Nagy pair and Margit Szécsi lived between 1960 und1967 in the former Angol utca 16 (now Derkai utca ).
- The footballer Ferenc Puskás, captain of the Golden Team was resident from 1954 to 1956 in the Columbus utca 57
- The author Imre Sarkadi lived from 1949 to 1961 in the Thokoly út 85, where
- The poet, writer and journalist Ernő Szép lived.
- The poet and translator Árpád Tóth spent the years 1912-1915 in the Dózsa György út 11
- The actor Jenő út Törzs lived in the Stefánia 71
- The poet Zoltán Zelk lived for 20 years in the Balázs utca 24 and the Columbus utca 54 / b.