New stock exchange building photos

New stock exchange building photos

Wekerle Sándor (Wurm) Street - Apáczai Csere János (Mária Valéria) Street, the headquarters of the Budapest Commodity and Value Exchange. The photograph was taken between 1880 and 1890.

Fortepan / Budapest City Archives. Archive reference: HU.BFL.XV.19.d.1.05.070

The main hall of the stock exchange, from above. Below, a crowd of heavily retouched figures. The picture was taken in the 1870s.

FSZEK Budapest Collection

The Dunapalota / Ritz hotel building and the rebuilt New Stock Exchange building. The picture was taken in 1916.

Fortepan / Budapest City Archives. Archive reference: HU.BFL.XV.19.d.1.08.083

New Stock Exchange building. The picture was taken in 1936.

Fortepan / Pál Breuer

The Dunapalota / Ritz Hotel and the rebuilt New Stock Exchange Building. On the far left is Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz. The picture was taken in 1943.

Fortepan / Archive for Contemporary History ETH Zurich / Agnes Hirschi / Carl Lutz

The Dunapalota / Ritz Hotel and the New Stock Exchange Building were set on fire by a bombing raid on 15 January 1945 and burnt to the ground for several days. The picture was taken in 1945.

Fortepan / Red Army

Wekerle Sándor (Wurm) street - corner of Dunakorzó, behind the ruined New Exchange building the demolished Széchenyi Chain Bridge. The picture was taken in 1945.

Fortepan / Gergely Kirilly

Wekerle Sándor (Wurm) street - Apáczai Csere János (Mária Valéria) street, behind the ruined New Stock Exchange building, behind the Parliament. On the right is the Wurm Courtyard, later Dorottya Palace. The picture was taken in 1945.

Fortepan / Gergely Kirilly

The Danube Corridor, Thonet Courtyard on the right, with the burnt-out New Exchange Building in the background. The picture was taken in 1945.

Fortepan / Red Army

"What is needed is a serious, persistent will on the part of each of us, directed to visit, use and animate the young institution frequently, perhaps at first with some sacrifice of our habits, our desires and our interests."

Baron Frigyes Kochmeister (1816-1907)

President of the BSE (1864-1900)

"As regards freedom of action, our institution desires nothing more than to do what is in the interest of the country as a whole, and to be free from any unilateral tendency, as it has been far from seeking to cultivate its own interests at the expense of the common good. "

Baron Zsigmond Kornfeld (1852-1909)

President of the BSE (1900-1909)

"Our poor mother, this dismembered Hungary is sick, seriously sick, and let us put aside all other interests, real or apparent, and keep in mind the only point of view: what is necessary, what is good for our poor, sick mother: Hungary."

Sándor Fleissig (1869-1939)

President of the BSE (1931-1939)