Erzsébetváros

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District of Budapest in Central Hungary, Hungary

Erzsébetváros (German: Elisabethstadt, both names meaning Elizabethtown) is the 7th district of Budapest, situated on the Pest side of the Danube. The inner half of the district was the historic Jewish quarter of Pest. The Dohány Street Synagogue, the largest functioning synagogue in Europe, is located in this district. Currently it is the most densely populated district of Budapest with 29,681.3 person per km². In 1910 Erzsébetváros had 152,454 inhabitants. During the socialist era Erzsébetváros's population decreased rapidly, because young people and families moved to the newer "panelized" boom districts (Újpest, Újbuda, Óbuda, Kispest etc.). Gentrification and recovery started in the middle of the 2000s.

Name

Erzsébetváros was named on 17 January 1882 after Queen Elisabeth (a.k.a. "The Empress Sissi"), the popular consort of Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary Franz Joseph I of the Habsburg Empire.
Until the unification of Budapest in 1873 this area was part of Terézváros. Between 1873 and 1882 it was named District VII without name.

Politics

The current mayor of VII. District of Budapest is Péter Niedermüller (DK).

The District Assembly, elected at the 2019 local government elections, is made up of 15 members (1 Mayor, 10 Individual constituencies MEPs and 4 Compensation List MEPs) divided into this political parties and alliances:^[3]

List of mayors

Twin towns – sister cities

Erzsébetváros is twinned with:^[4]

• Karlovac, Croatia
• Nevers, France
• Požega, Croatia
• Safed, Israel
• Stari Grad (Belgrade), Serbia
• Stavroupoli, Greece
• Sveti Vlas (Nesebar), Bulgaria

See also

• Gozsdu-udvar
• List of districts in Budapest

Gallery

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  Madách square
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  Blaha Lujza square
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  The Synagogue
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  Square of Roses

Notes

1. Coalition of Momentum–DK–MSZP–Dialogue–LMP.
2. György Hunvald was arrested in a pre-trial detention for breach of fiduciary responsibility in February 2009. Deputy mayor József Gergely (MSZP) managed the district for the remaining part of his term.

References

1. "94/2012. (XII. 27.) Főv. Kgy. rendelet – a közterület- és városrésznevek megállapításáról, azok jelöléséről, valamint a házszám-megállapítás szabályairól" (in Hungarian).
2. "A fővárosi kerületek, a megyei jogú városok, a városok területe, lakónépessége és a lakások száma" [The area of districts of the capital, of the towns with county's rights, resident population and number of dwellings]. Magyarország közigazgatási helynévkönyve 2016. január 1 [Gazetteer of Hungary 1 January 2016] (PDF). Hungarian Central Statistical Office. 2016. p. 21.
3. "Városi közgyűlés tagjai 2019-2024 - Budapest VII. kerület". valasztas.hu. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
4. "Erzsébetváros Kulturális Koncepció 2021" (PDF) (in Hungarian). Erzsébetváros. 2021. p. 42. Retrieved 4 June 2024.

External links

• Aerial photographs of Erzsébetváros
• The old jewish quarter of Pest