Budapest records: longest, biggest, highest…

Did you know that there is no higher than Janos Hill, lower than the Danube, older than the Voros Sun (Red Hedgehog), bigger than Dohany Street Synagogue and longer than Ulloi Road? Vs.hu walked through these places.

The highest point of Budapest

The highest point of Budapest is the Erzsebet Lookout on the top of the 527 m long Janos Hill. It was handed over in September 1910 and it was the highest lookout building in Europe.

From the tower, which was built according to the plans of Frigyes Schulek, panoramic view can be up to 80km on a clear day, vs.hu says.

The lowest natural point of Budapest

The lowest natural point of the capital is the Danube. It means 96 meters height above sea level at an average water level.

Underground

The shortest distance between two underground stations is located between Kodaly Korond and Bajza Street. The 190 m station is located in the Millennium subway line, which was the first continental European underground railway.

We can come to the surface with the city’s longest path escalator in the Szell Kalman Square subway station.

Buildings

The highest building of Budapest is the 154 m high Szava Street transmission tower, which was built in 1988.

The oldest building of the capital is located in the Buda Castle, the Voros Sun inn, which had long been the only inn of the castle.

The building was constructed around the 1260’s and was united with the other houses of the Gothic building in the 18th century, thus gaining its present appearance. In the 1760’s, a dance hall was built in the yard and later the first theater of Buda also opened here.

Arpad Bridge, which connects Angyalfold and Obuda is the busiest bridge of Budapest. It was also the longest one until the handover of Megyeri Bridge in 2008. Approximately 150 thousand vehicles passing by in the twice three lanes and the two tramway tracks each day.

According to vs.hu, Szolo Street town house of Obuda is the biggest residential house of not only Budapest, but Hungary too. The block-of flats was built in 1970 and it is longer than 300 m, living there approximately 3,000 people in 885 apartments.

The narrowest house of Budapest is located in the Varkert wharf. The building is only 6m 20cm wide on its façade facing to the Danube. The owner, Henrik Lajos Enderes sold the plot to Mano and Armin Mandl, who had built a two-facaded, three-story building with a patio by architects Weinreb and Spiegel in the end of the 1890’s. This is how the 22 m-long, neo-Gothic facade house became striking at the bank of the Danube.

Islamic holy place

In the 2nd disctrict, Tomb of Gul Baba is the world’s northernmost Islamic holy place, which is the only active Islamic pilgrimage site in the territory of the Christian Europe.