Unusual Facades of Budapest : Vak Bottyán utca 6

This uniquely designed building is located at Vak Bottyán utca 6 in the 11th district of Budapest. I could not find much information about its construction, but based on a source I found, it was designed by Miklós Nászay.

According to the flat data sheets (these were forms that had to be filled out for each house in Budapest to identify the Jewish inhabitants of Budapest in 1944), the house was inhabited by non-Jews. One of the flats was owned by Ilona Farkas, the wife of Kornél Oszlányi, a Hungarian military officer who served as a division commander during World War II. According to the records, he was the most highly decorated Hungarian soldier and the sole individual to receive the Knight’s Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa in 1944.

At the end of the war, Kornél Oszlányi managed to evade capture and execution by the Soviets and spent some time in American captivity in Germany. In 1951, he relocated to the United States. He passed away in Cleveland in 1960.

Old facade in Vak Bottyán utca, Budapest

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