Pasarét (german: Sauwiesen) is a neighbourhood on the

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side of

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On the maps edited around the beginning of the nineteenth century it was called ''Sauwiesen (Pig Meadow)'' and also as ''Schmalzbergel (Fat Hill)''. At the time of and within this area's founding, people spoke

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, hence, the German nicknames; however, this countryside preserved the Hungarian language as well. On earlier army maps, it is simply labelled as ''Ried (meadow)''. The

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(''rácok'') living in the Castle District also called this place ''Paša'' (meadow in

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: paša.

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: паша). In 1847

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connected the Serbian name with the Hungarian word for meadow (rét) to form the present name of this part of Buda. The first vehicle of the

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ran from 4 p.m. on June 24, 1874, and regular traffic began on the following day. The clay-mines which made possible to build up the road in Pasarét in the 1880s were on the place of the now Vasas Sporttelep (Sport Stadion). The huge Ludovika Engineer Academy was built up in 1895 vis-á-vis the than woody excursionspot with famous restaurant-gardens "Szép Ilona". After creating an association for settling down became the Pasarét the villa-quartier in the beginning of the twentieth century and the area has been fully built-up between the two world wars. Great artists and scientists settled here, among others

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(composer), Ernö Dohnányi (composer),

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(politician),

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(writer), and

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(writer).

Bauhaus in Budapest

In the 1930s several houses and a whole street were built in

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style. This neighborhood's bus-station and church built in 1933-34 are two of its most momentous building-compositions.

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*https://welovebudapest.com/en/toplists/a-guide-to-the-second-district-of-budapest/ Neighbourhoods of Budapest Buda 2nd District of Budapest {{Budapest-geo-stub

Bauhaus in Budapest

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