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I swam competitively until I was a teenager, I went to the pool next to Campona to train. My dad often came for me and my siblings to take their tired coffins home by car. Usually he drove on the main road, Nagytétényi út, but since he was an adventurous habitus, one day he kept going straight, not at the traffic light, but at the intersection, and then turned onto a side street.
Thus we arrived at Dézsmaház street, a few hundred meters from the pool, which later became our daily route and has been my mother’s favorite street ever since.
Recently, a modern Baptist church (Rose Garden Community House) was built here, next to which there was also a kindergarten, most of the houses were painted. Of course, that doesn’t mean your mood has changed, in fact.
Apart from the small wrinkles, the street has not changed (in principle) in the last two hundred years. A true jeweler, with its old-looking houses, Szekler doors and Mediterranean character, amber walls and charming inhabitants, it is a curiosity in the area.
The street is located in the XVII. century did not even exist, the inhabitants only began to move here later. The area was used as a mining yard before settlement, as the masters of the quarries produced the snow-white limestone cliffs of Budafok for sale. Some workers, saving time and money, lived in excavated cavities.
On one side of today’s cobbled alley, there were once excavations in the ground, mostly wine cellars, but today these plots serve more as residential houses.
It is as if we have merged Szentendre with a winery town, the row of colorful buildings is not an everyday sight here.
Unsurprisingly the row of wineries on the north side, as the grapes were grown on the southern slopes. Swabian winegrowers only in the seventeenth. They began to build their houses here in the second half of the 19th century, when the winery took center stage. The beginning of the harvest used to be associated with famous days, even in the 19th century. It may have started at certain times in the 20th century. This was important because the manor allotment, grape sage and then from the 1860s rib sage were collected on this day.
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Gallery: Dézsmaház street(Photo: Gábor Czerkl / Index)
The huge old iron doors above the basements were decorated in the Baroque style, sadly chewed up by time, but traces of them can still be seen to this day. The ornate doors were the sight of the Promontora of the time.
Mysterious Goldsmith
According to legend, the XIX. In the 16th century, a goldsmith lived here who used his house as a fortress. Wells were dug in the cellars of the street, so this craftsman also drilled the sink. A ladder led to the bottom of his well, from where it was possible to take a secret flight to the Danube. It was a fairy tale escape route suitable for a fairy tale. It could not be determined what escaped.
Mrs. Ferencné Hirtling “Marika” moved here in 1994 with her husband. We learned from him that the street was named after him today, of course, after the draw.
Not far from the fairytale goldsmith, two houses away, was the bath house. Inside the old building, a steep staircase carved in stone led to the vine collecting vats in the room below, also made of stone. The tithe (that is, the teal) was transported here, that is, to the Eger chapter.
And what did Promontor have to do with Eger? Well, the hillside in the area belonged to the Eger chapter.
The street was distorted into Baucsek Street in the mid-1940s, regaining its original name only in 1990, after the regime change. The Social Democrat Ernő Baucsek was a member of the local leadership in 1919, during the Commune. His restaurant was also on the corner of Dézsmaház and Vilmos utca. The window for the dispensing of food and drinks can be seen in parcel 21 to this day.
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Gallery: Dézsmaház streetPhoto: Gábor Czerkl / Index
There was a carpet workshop on Calle Dézsmaház 27. The works required water, so there is also a well dug in limestone on this plot.
The water is still at the bottom of the 23 meter deep well. The Mária Radóczy Gallery has been waiting for visitors at the carpet workshop site since 1997. On the side walls and basement ceiling of today’s dark purple house are originally works from two hundred years ago, with traces of spikes. that form a beautiful texture.
By the way, Mary is my “girlfriend”, a renowned fire enamel artist, one more reason to enjoy visiting Dézsmaház street, our family’s favorite.
(Cover image: Gábor Czerkl / Index)
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