The residential building of number 37, Népszínház street, is located in the
8th district
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In mathematics
8 is:
* a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2.
* a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the ...
of
Budapest,
Hungary, on the odd side of the street between Nagyfuvaros and Kisfuvaros street.
Location
Its neighboring buildings are number 35 Ruchlinder house, built between 1911-1912 based on Béla Málnai and Haász's plan, and number 39 Atlas City Hotel, owned by Mellow Mood Hotels. The building is 600 meters away from the "
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" metro line 2 station and tram lines 4 and 6, 150 meters away from the "
II. János Pál pápa tér" station of metro line 4, and 100 meters away from the stops of tram lines 28, 28A, 37, 37A and 62 as well as from the stops of bus lines 99 and 217E.
History
The building was built between 1909 and 1911, with signs of
Art Nouveau
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and
Art Deco, on the behalf of Ármin Goldberger and his wife based on the plans of Béla Löffler and Sándor Löffler. The Löffler brothers, Sándor "Samu" Löffler (1877,
Budapest – 1962,
Melbourne) and Béla Löffler (1880,
Budapest – the end of the 1930s, probably
Jerusalem), were architects in the turn of the century, in the early modernist era.
In 1906, they opened an architectural office in
Budapest and with many of their works contributed to Budapest's cultural history and its cityscape, e.g.: 37 Népszínház Street, Magda Udvar in Mátyás tér 4. Their most famous work is the plan of the orthodox Synagogue of Kazincy Street, finished in 1913, with which they gained acknowledgement and publicity. The Löffler brothers became sought-after and successful architects of
Budapest.
The building was a so-called "
Yellow-star house
The yellow-star houses were a network of almost 1,950 designated compulsory places of residence for around 220,000 Budapest Jews from 21 June 1944 until late November 1944. Both the houses and their residents were obliged to display the yellow sta ...
". The
yellow-star house
The yellow-star houses were a network of almost 1,950 designated compulsory places of residence for around 220,000 Budapest Jews from 21 June 1944 until late November 1944. Both the houses and their residents were obliged to display the yellow sta ...
s were buildings in
Budapest, which were appointed as residence for
Jews, under the regulation 1944-IX/147.501-514 issued on 16 June 1944. The origin of the name is that under the regulation the entrance of the buildings had to be marked with the
Star of David
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A derivation of the ''seal of Solomon'', which was used for decorative ...
. Also in accordance with this regulation the
Jews were obligated to wear yellow-stars as well.
The picture "37 Népszínház Street – first façade plan 1909" shows the first draft made by the architects, which was rejected. It's not so "common", but on several occasions the investor did not like the first draft and requested a completely new façade from the architects.
Pictures from 1911
Pictures from 2017
References
Népszínház utca
Népszínház utca 37.
Magyar Építőművészet 1911.(IX. year) 9. edition
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Józsefváros
Art Nouveau architecture in Budapest
Art Deco architecture
Art Nouveau apartment buildings