Last weekend saw a beautiful show in the Hungarian Heritage
House. A programme was the dances from Kalotaszeg. The Hungarian Heritage House
is a national institution founded in 2001 with the purpose of preserving and
promoting Hungarian folk tradition.
The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble founded in 1951, is devoted to collecting the folklore
treasury of the Carpathian Basin and presenting it on stage. The Ensemble's
repertoire related to folk tradition:
historical music, authentic folk music and dance, traditional-based contemporary dance-shows.
The Royal Vigadó building at the time of the Turkish
occupation, one, built by the Turks
storehouse, and later was an arsenal.
The end of the 19th century,
rapidly growing bourgeoisie expressed the need to also be Vigadó in Buda. The citizens of Buda in 1892, was first asked
in writing from the leadership of
Capital of Culture Palace of similar structure Pest Concert Hall, where
their meetings, keep their amusement. . In 1894 he finally solved the
problem: the armory, which was suitable
for the location of the prospective Buda Vigadó building. The main street -
Corvin Square - School Street side of the triangle bounded by the city
purchased the adjacent land as well. In 1897, the capital of the General
Assembly of the public tender for the building, which won Kallina Mor and son
in law. The architects were very difficult before, because it was not easy to
satisfy the needs of many, theaters, libraries and other cultural purposes and
building design for a specified block. Their task is finally resolved well. The
design competitions in 1896 and two years later, after the construction, begun
in the spring of 1898, and the following autumn building has a floor area of
800 négyszögöl structure was in place.
The built between 1898 and 1900, two-storey, fully
furnished, tympanum, dome-like building with a mansard tetőfelépítménnyel,
especially in the neo-Renaissance style that bears the marks of the disease is
characterized by an eclectic style. The
door and window framing the sills also in Italy (Rome, Florence) Renaissance
palota építészetből known solutions.
The house has two decorated (Corvin Square and Main Street)
and a subordinate (the School Street) was a facade. The building to the south,
in the direction you're Corvin tér. Middle simple array wings attached. On the
first floor a large, semicircular, circular windows on the second floor were
installed. These windows framing the source of ornate, baroque character.
Old photographs show that the building was a main street at
the corner cafe, the restaurant and School streets. The eclectic look is
relatively simple to stunning art nouveau interior decor compensated. The
impressive spacious lobby decorated with marble columns, karst, it wide marble
staircase to the first floor. Illuminated by hundreds of lights along the
stairs, the inner walls are painted pale green.
The cafe downstairs, upstairs 400 people were in the restaurant .The
first floor is a 350 square meter main hall housed. The room is perfect for
organizing balls Wall surfaces of large mirrors . On the side of the streets parallel wings
further small rooms, interior view corridors, lounges, clubs and reading rooms,
card room opened. On the upper floors of four private apartments were created.
The building was the 1900th on January 20, was handed over
by Mayor .
The 306-seat ballroom, later converted into a theater.
Today, it is home to the theater in the first row of the Hungarian State Folk
Ensemble, who are more than 120 times each year occur here. Today, the
building's many functions: the Concert Hall was replaced by the Hungarian
Institute for Culture and Heritage House.
The building was reconstructed in 2007. The work has
clearly was the last renovation of the exterior forties, took place after 1945.
The war caused serious damage restoration was thorough, but it will not restore
the original state, but also sought to develop a much simpler building.
Solutions of the original building plans were easy to follow and retrieve
archival material. This is important because the biggest part is not destroyed
more contemporary images, maybe the contemporary imagery plenty of documented
Corvin tér main facade of the exception.
The result of the reconstruction of the building can be
seen. The sills are missing from the statues were returned to the tympanum
above is also missing the mythological statues. Opened the front wheels
ablaknyílásait previously bricked, so the building was open to the Corvin tér.
Back into the ground floor of a former great cafe and restaurant windows. The
main entrance is re-covered driveway. The total external refurbishment of the interior
renovation will hopefully be acceptable.
In 2011 the building was declared a national monument
Kalotaszeg is a region in Transylvania comprising around 40
villages with Hungarian and Hungarian-Romanian mixed population, located among
the mountains that separate the Transylvanian Basin from the Hungarian Great
Plain.
In the second half of the 19th century it was perhaps in
the villages of Kalotaszeg that folk art flourished in the richest and most
varied forms: costume, painted furniture, woodcarving, embroidery, weaving and
a great many genres producing minor objects, vocal and instrumental music,
dance, and festive customs all existed side by side and intertwined. .Even nowadays West-Romania is one of the location where
people keep the old transylvanian hungarian folk traditions alive.
At an early stage only the young girls' and women's blouses
were decorated with hand embroidering. Later skirts, other clothing and step by step tablecloths
and towels became more and more fancy. Of course these were only used
occasionally on holidays since people treasured these things back in those days
in the poor world.
