Eger is a city where arriving is not enough. In Eger, you can also come home.
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Looking for accommodation in Eger, Hungary? Rád-Vár Apartmanház is in the historic town centre, right next to Eger Castle, at Almagyar u. 7. Our apartment and studio apartment are ideal for couples and families who want to explore the city on foot.
Distances as the crow flies.
Eger is famous for its castle, its thermal baths and the Egri Bikavér (Bull's Blood) red wine. Lying between the Bükk and Mátra hills, it is a great base for day trips, and it is about two hours from Budapest by car or train.
Introduction: the beginnings
Famous residents
From 1939 to the present
of Almagyar Street in Eger
and of the Rád-Vár Apartment House.
As early as the Middle Ages, the main road leading through Maklár, along the Eger valley, towards the southern and eastern parts of the country ran here. It took its name from the settlement called Almagyar.
After the Ottoman rule, almost the entire town had to be rebuilt from scratch. Most of the streets kept winding where they had in the Middle Ages. The monograph Monuments of Heves County writes that "at the beginning of the 18th century, and even according to the street census of 1788, the German immigrants who settled here called it German Street or Tanners' Street. Until the regulation of the Eger stream, one of its branches ran along the back boundary of the plots, which made the place ideal for practising the craft."
A short history
of Almagyar Street in Eger
and of the Rád-Vár Apartment House.
József Francz, a master mason of Eger who worked as murariorum magister on the building of the Lyceum, bought a house here in 1779. In 1780 he rebuilt it into a small palace bearing the characteristic features of the Lyceum's façade. On 8 March 1790 the town magistrate dealt with József Francz's building plan.
In 1831 the building belonged to József Francz Jr., and later to the Galambos family. It is very likely that the famous cinematographer György Illés (1914–2006), twice awarded the Kossuth Prize and later rector of the University of Theatre and Film Arts, was born in this house at number 7 on 2 November 1914. Among others, he was the cinematographer of the films Budapesti tavasz, Ház a sziklák alatt, Húsz óra, Isten hozta, őrnagy úr! and Az ötödik pecsét. In 1995 György Illés was made an honorary citizen of Eger.
A short history
of Almagyar Street in Eger
and of the Rád-Vár Apartment House.
Between the autumn of 1939 and the spring of 1944, Polish civilian refugees lived in the building. But this is not the end of the house's story: in the autumn of 1944 heavy fighting broke out in the town, and on 29 November the retreating German 8th Jäger Division blew up the bridges over the Eger stream together with other buildings, including this 18th-century house, to block the advancing Soviet tanks. A large part of the street front was destroyed in the explosion: the gateway and two street-facing rooms of the former baroque house were lost.
The ruined building was restored after the war, but because of the hard living conditions it was sadly not rebuilt in its original form. The house still reflects this today.
