About the neighborhood
District of Budapest in Central Hungary, Hungary
Erzsébetváros (Hungarian pronunciation: ˈɛrʒeːbɛtvaːroʃ; German: Elisabethstadt, lit. Elizabethtown) is the 7th district of Budapest, situated on the Pest side of the Danube. The inner half of the district was the historic Jewish quarter of Pest. The Dohány Street Synagogue, the largest functioning synagogue in Europe, is located in this district. Currently it is the most densely populated district of Budapest with 23,630 inhabitants per km.
Name
Erzsébetváros was named on 17 January 1882 after Queen Elisabeth (a.k.a. "The Empress Sissi"), the popular consort of Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary Franz Joseph I of the Habsburg Empire.
Until the unification of Budapest in 1873 this area was part of Terézváros. Between 1873 and 1882 it was named District VII without name.
History
In 1910 Erzsébetváros had 152,454 inhabitants. During the socialist era Erzsébetváros's population decreased rapidly, because young people and families moved to the newer "panelized" boom districts (Újpest, Újbuda, Óbuda, Kispest etc.). Gentrification and recovery started in the middle of the 2000s.
Demographics
Source: KSH Politics
The current mayor of VII. District of Budapest is Péter Niedermüller (DK).
The District Assembly, elected at the 2019 local government elections, is made up of 15 members (1 Mayor, 10 Individual constituencies MEPs and 4 Compensation List MEPs) divided into this political parties and alliances:
List of mayors
Twin towns – sister cities
Erzsébetváros is twinned with:
Karlovac, Croatia
Nevers, France
Požega, Croatia
Safed, Israel
Stari Grad (Belgrade), Serbia
Stavroupoli, Greece
Sveti Vlas (Nesebar), Bulgaria
Gheorgheni, Romania
Comrat, Moldova
See also
Gozsdu-udvar
List of districts in Budapest
Gallery
Notes
References
External links
Aerial photographs of Erzsébetváros
The old jewish quarter of Pest
Districts I. Várkerület
II. 2nd district
III. Óbuda-Békásmegyer
IV. Újpest
V. Belváros-Lipótváros
VI. Terézváros
VII. Erzsébetváros
VIII. Józsefváros
IX. Ferencváros
X. Kőbánya
XI. Újbuda
XII. Hegyvidék
XIII. 13th district
XIV. Zugló
XV. 15th district
XVI. 16th district
XVII. Rákosmente
XVIII. Pestszentlőrinc-Pestszentimre
XIX. Kispest
XX. Pesterzsébet
XXI. Csepel
XXII. Budafok-Tétény
XXIII. Soroksár
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