The number is less than the 208 buildings listed in 2005, but more than the 38 listed in 2004, the 53 in 2003, 34 in 2002, 22 in 2001, 31 in 2000, 75 in 1999, 1 in 1998 and 10 in 1997. The buildings to be listed this year - thereby creating a legal basis for their historical preservation - include Budapest?s Botanical Gardens, the Dreher Brewery and the former home of the Stock Exchange.
The Stock Exchange building has retained hardly any of its original fixtures, but, when Hungary?s public television broadcaster, which currently uses the building as its headquarters, moves out, some of the site?s forgotten treasures could be discovered, according to art historian Attila Győr, who decides which buildings are listed for the National Office of Cultural Heritage.
While the Palace and Palm House at Budapest?s Botanical Gardens, or Füvészkert in Hungarian, is already listed, the entire site will be listed this year, as will the parts of the Dreher Brewery, in the capital?s Kőbánya district, built before 1918. Additional sites in Budapest to be listed include a building in Frankel Leó Street which was once part of the Lukács baths, the headquarters of the Hungarian Electricity Works in Váci Street, the Törley, Sacelláry and Czuba-Durozier mansions in Budapest?s District XXII, and two water purification plants in the Újpest district. Outside of the capital, sites to be listed include a cellar row in Zsámbék, several art nouveau homes in Szeged, the Reformed church in Csajág, the Catholic church in Rakamaz, part of the Palace Park in Gödöllő, a Bauhaus wing of the hospital in Mohács, a mill in Biatorbágy and a Roman road in the forest near Szomód, Győr said.
Around 11,000 buildings are listed in Hungary.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
