HUNGARYS PARLAMENT

MAGYARORSZG PARLAMENTJE

Budapest was united from three cities in 1873 and seven years later the National Assembly resolved to establish a new, representative Parliament Building, expressing the sovereignty of the nation. A competition was published, which was won by Imre Steindl, but the plans of the other two competitors were also realized, facing the Parliament: one serves today as the Ethnographical Museum, the other as the Ministry of Agriculture. Construction from the winning plan was started in 1885 and the building was inaugurated on the 1000th anniversary of the country in 1896, and completed in 1904. (The architect of the building went blind before its completion.) It is currently the largest building in Hungary, and the second largest Parliament in Europe.

Az Orszghz ptkezshez felttell szabtk, hogy kizrlag hazai ptanyagokat hasznljanak fel. Az ptkezs 1885-tl 1904-ig tartott, azaz a tervez az plet teljes befejezst mr nem rhette meg. Maga az plet 268 m hossz, 123 m szles s 95 m magas, alapterlete 17 745 ngyzetmter. Kzponti eleme a kupola, amelynek kt oldaln emelkedik a kpviselhz (ma az orszggyls) s a volt frendihz (ma Kongresszusi terem) lsterme. Az pletnek 27 kapuja van, bell 29 lpcshz s 13 szemly- s teherlift szolglja a kzlekedst s szlltst. Az pletben valamivel tbb mint 200 irodahelyisg tallhat. A Duna felli oldal a fhomlokzat, de a hivatalos fbejrat a Kossuth trrl nylik. Kvl s bell sszesen 242 szobor van a falakon, jeles freskk s festmnyek is dsztik az Orszghzat.

There were about one thousand people working on its construction in which 40 million bricks, half a million precious stones and 40 kg gold were used.

Az ptkezs sorn tlagosan ezer ember dolgozott, 40 milli tglt, flmilli dszkvet s 40 kg aranyat hasznltak fel.

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