Erzsébetváros

7th District of Budapest

Budapest VII. kerülete
*Erzsébetváros*
7th District of Budapest Budapest VII. kerülete Erzsébetváros
District of Budapest
	District VII
	Flag Coat of arms
	Location of District VII in Budapest (shown in grey)
	Coordinates: 47°30′2″N 19°4′7.41″E / 47.50056°N 19.0687250°E
Country	Hungary
Region	Central Hungary
City	Budapest
Established	17 November 1873
Quarters	List Erzsébetváros;
Government
• Mayor	Péter Niedermüller (DK)
Area
• Total	2.09 km2 (0.81 sq mi)
• Rank	23rd
Population (2016)
• Total	53,381
• Rank	19th
• Density	25,541/km2 (66,150/sq mi)
Demonym	hetedik kerületi ("7th districter")
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	1071 ... 1078
Website	erzsebetvaros.hu

Erzsébetváros (German: Elisabethstadt, both names meaning 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 29,681.3 person per km². 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.

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.

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:^[3]

	Seats	Current District Assembly
Opposition coalition^[a]	9	M
Fidesz-KDNP	3
Independent	2
Élhető Erzsébetváros	1

List of mayors

	Party	Date
János Faragó	SZDSZ	1990–1994
Karola Bakonyi	MSZP	1994–1998
Zoltán Szabó	MSZP	1998–2002
György Hunvald	MSZP	2002–2010^[b]
Zsolt Vattamány	Fidesz	2010–2019
Péter Niedermüller	DK	2019–

Twin towns – sister cities

Erzsébetváros is twinned with:^[4]

Karlovac, Croatia
Nevers, France
Požega, Croatia
Safed, Israel
Stari Grad (Belgrade), Serbia
Stavroupoli, Greece
Sveti Vlas (Nesebar), Bulgaria

Gallery

Madách square
Blaha Lujza square
The Synagogue
Square of Roses

Notes

^ Coalition of Momentum–DK–MSZP–Dialogue–LMP.
^ György Hunvald was arrested in a pre-trial detention for breach of fiduciary responsibility in February 2009. Deputy mayor József Gergely (MSZP) managed the district for the remaining part of his term.