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Képaláírás: This is the seventh piece of a 14-part series, utilizing the 14 statues featured on the two quarter-round colonnades of Hősök tere/Heroes' Square. Since all of the protagonists are major and significant figures in the history of Hungary, some Budapest streets are named after them here and there. The primary aim of this series is not to introduce the statues or characters (all are commonplaces frequently featured in touristic photoguides), but roads, squares and public spaces bearing their names. Szent László tér is in the centre of Kőbánya, one of the largest districts of Budapest, having grown into a densely inhabited, yet primarily industrial area of the city already prior to WWI. This region also supplied basic services to the developing Budapest: one can find the largest cemetery and the main prisons of the capital here, as well. The population of the district was even growing after 1945, new housing estates were erected around. After 1989 the district’s industrial significance deteriorated, the number of the unemployed is relatively high. However, Szent László tér (known as Pataky István tér during the Communist regime) is a messenger of the old and classy Kőbánya: it houses the building of the local government office, some educational institutions, a community center and last but not least one of the nicest Roman Catholic churches of Budapest, designed by Ödön Lechner, constructed between 1894 and 1899, and ornamented by the works of the greatest artists of the age. The church, heavily injured during WWII and partially restored after then, was thoroughly reconstructed at the beginning of the 1990s, and has belonging to the national heritage again since then. - 9 further public places are named after this king, standing as second in the row of Heroes’ Square statues. Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary is generally referred as the most beloved king of Hungary, a whole cycle of legends is associated with his name. He was canonized within one hundred years of his death, in 1192. His reign, as it was common in the age he lived, was beginning with complicated family affairs in 1077, and by the end of it, in 1095 he has reorganized and strengthened the institutions of Roman Catholicism throughout the country. As you can judge from his goldened glory (two further statues are provided with additions of this material, none of them has been mentioned yet) and his carreer, he is considered to be a key-figure in the history of Hungarian Catholicism. This statue, a design of Ede Telcs, was completed and placed to its present spot in 1911.

Ismertető szöveg: I. (Szent) László (Lengyelország, 1040. június 27. - Nyitra, 1095. július 29.) Árpád-házi magyar király (1077-1095). Bátyja, I. Géza után lépett a trónra, utóda Könyves Kálmán volt. (Forrás: Wikipédia)


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