Erzsébetváros
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7th District of Budapest
Budapest VII. kerülete Erzsébetváros | |
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District VII | |
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 | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Postal code | 1071 ... 1078 |
Website | erzsebetvaros |
Erzsébetváros (German: Elisabethstadt, both names meaning Elizabethtown) is the 7th district of
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
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
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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
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 | |||||||||
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Opposition coalition[a] | 9 | M | |||||||||
Fidesz-KDNP | 3 | ||||||||||
Independent | 2 | ||||||||||
Élhető Erzsébetváros | 1 |
List of mayors
Member | Party | Date | |
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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
Erzsébetváros is twinned with:[4]
- Karlovac, Croatia
- Nevers, France
- Safed, Israel
- Stari Grad (Belgrade), Serbia
- Stavroupoli, Greece
- Sveti Vlas (Nesebar), Bulgaria
See also
Gallery
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Madách square
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Blaha Lujza square
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The Synagogue
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Square of Roses
Notes
- LMP.
- ^ György Hunvald was arrested in a pre-trial detention for breach of fiduciary responsibility in February 2009. Deputy mayor József Gergely (MSZP) managed the district for the remaining part of his term.
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Testvérvárosok" (in Hungarian). Erzsébetváros. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
External links
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