Anker Palace ( hu, Anker-palota) is a building in

Terézváros Terézváros (English: Theresa Town, German: Theresienstadt) is the District VI of Budapest, and was named after Queen Maria Theresa in 1777, who visited the neighbourhood 26 years earlier in 1751. The territory was first inhabited in the early 1 ...

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. It was built by

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insurance company, the Anker Life and Pension Company. The building was built in the

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and was completed in 1910. It faces on to Deák Ferenc Square. There are

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on the facade and two statues of women with outstretched arms on the roof.

Anker Köz

Hungary, Budapest, Downtown- Anker House 2

Anker Köz (alley) runs in a curve around the rear of the building. The

Galileo Circle The Galileo Circle (''Galilei Kör'') was an atheist-materialist student organization that functioned in Budapest between 1908 and 1919. Their center was located at the Anker Köz in Terézváros, Budapest. The circle had several subgroups with f ...

was based here, 1910-1919.

Notable residents

* Geza Hofi * Léopold Szondi

References

{{Coord, 47.49785656907723, 19.0553552708005, display=title Buildings and structures in Budapest