Erzsébetváros
7th District of Budapest
Budapest VII. kerülete Erzsébetváros | |
|---|---|
| District VII | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
 Location of District VII in Budapest (shown in grey) | |
| Coordinates: 47°30′2″N 19°4′7.41″E / 47.50056°N 19.0687250°E | |
| Country | Hungary |
| Region | Central Hungary |
| City | Budapest |
| Established | 17 November 1873 |
| Quarters[1] | List
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| Government | |
| • Mayor | Péter Niedermüller (DK) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.09 km2 (0.81 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 23rd |
| Population (2016)[2] | |
| • Total | 53,381 |
| • Rank | 19th |
| • Density | 25,541/km2 (66,150/sq mi) |
| Demonym | hetedik kerületi ("7th districter") |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 1071 ... 1078 |
| Website | erzsebetvaros |
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
[edit]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
[edit]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]
| Party | Seats | Current District Assembly | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition coalition[a] | 9 | M | |||||||||
| Fidesz-KDNP | 3 | ||||||||||
| Independent | 2 | ||||||||||
| Élhető Erzsébetváros | 1 | ||||||||||
List of mayors
[edit]| Member | Party | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| János Faragó | SZDSZ | 1990–1994 | |
| Karola Bakonyi | MSZP | 1994–1998 | |
| Zoltán Szabó | MSZP | 1998–2002 | |
| György Hunvald | MSZP | 2002–2010[b] | |
| Zsolt Vattamány | Fidesz | 2010–2019 | |
| Péter Niedermüller | DK | 2019– | |
Twin towns – sister cities
[edit]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
[edit]Gallery
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Madách square -
Blaha Lujza square -
The Synagogue -
Square of Roses
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "94/2012. (XII. 27.) Főv. Kgy. rendelet – a közterület- és városrésznevek megállapításáról, azok jelöléséről, valamint a házszám-megállapítás szabályairól" (in Hungarian).
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ "Városi közgyűlés tagjai 2019-2024 - Budapest VII. kerület". valasztas.hu. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
- ^ "Erzsébetváros Kulturális Koncepció 2021" (PDF) (in Hungarian). Erzsébetváros. 2021. p. 42. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
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