![]() It was difficult to find a place for the kilometre-stone at the extremely narrow bridgehead (Photo: Fortepan/No.: 18594)įinally, a solution was found to place a statue at the corner of the Ministry of Welfare, on the sidewalk: a marble statue of Jenő Körmendi Frim's Patrona Hungariae, which is standing on a slender column, on a stylised kilometre stone, with a relief on three sides of the column. It was also suggested that a traditional 0-kilometre stone be erected in the middle of the road at the Buda end of the Chain Bridge, separated from the traffic by an iron fence, but the Chain Bridge's roadway was so narrow that it simply could not fit there. The problem was that before World War II, Clark Ádám Square was much better built in, it was not a real square, just an intersection, meaning there was not much free space. However, they did not know where this marking stone could fit. What is certain, however, is that until the 1930s, it was not particularly important to mark the starting point. In fact, this was not so complicated, as the beginnings of the roads had previously been calculated from the Royal Palace, and the starting point was relocated to the bridgehead after the Chain Bridge was built. The Public Works Council has now officially stated that this so-called zero point is in the axis of the Buda bridgehead of the Chain Bridge in Clark Ádám Square.” ![]() However, this numbering is just disappearing suddenly, and so far no one has really known where the point from which the distances are calculated. ![]() The issue was also dealt with by the Public Works Council, as reported in the article of the 22 April 1932 issue of the 8 Órai Ujság: “ Anyone who arrives in Budapest by car, for example, can watch the declining numbering of kilometres all the way to the city borders. In the ranks of the Hungária Automobil Club - that is, the Car Club - more precisely at the suggestion of Pál Festetics in the early 1930s, it was stated that the point from which the roads starting from Budapest should start should be indicated. The statue erected on in Clark Ádám Square (Photo: FSZEK Budapest Collection) Cars had become more common even in Hungary, and there had been more and more relatively well-built roads, i.e., paved with stone or asphalt. However, the system was not uniform for a long time, distances was calculated from the starting point of the road, and they were given in miles, not kilometres.įor a long time, it did not matter too much where the start of the road was calculated from, the travel speeds were also quite slow. Kilometre stone from the 1940s (Photo: Fortepan/No.: 32451)ĭistances have, of course, been shown on the roads for a very long time, as this is one of the most important figures for travellers. (There is an exception to this, because the kilometres on Road 1 are calculated from the BAH junction.) That is, say, on Road 7, if we see that Budapest is 38 kilometres away, then we know that it is not the city borders that are 38 kilometres away, but the “starting point” of Clark Ádám Square, the milestone that marks the beginning of the roads. Presumably everyone knows that the length of the roads starting from Budapest is calculated from the Buda end of the Chain Bridge.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |