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Walking in Pasarét
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6 point multicache. You'll find a part of the password and a piece of the 6th place's coordinate
1st point: N 47° 30,8210' E 19° 0,1940' 154 m
2nd point: N 47° 30,9060' E 19° 0,0650' 154 m
3rd point: N 47° 31,4550' E 18° 59,5940' 167 m
4th point: N 47° 31,2520' E 18° 59,9610' 164 m
5th point: N 47° 31,4280' E 18° 59,8230' 183 m
6th point: "N47°AB,CDB; E18°EF,EGF; h=BDC m"
At the 6th point you must guess what is the coordinate.
WALKING IN PASARÉT
I invite you for a walk of 6 points in Pasarét. You can walk in the greenbelt all the way. You will find a part of the password as well as a piece of the coordinates of the point 6 at each point. The cache will take you to the following interesting places: Raoul Wallenberg, Áron Gábor, Pasaréti square, Béla Bartók, Imre Nagy.
The name and the history of Pasarét
Pasarét (“Pasha’s meadow”) wasn’t named after the meadow of a Turkish pasha, but the name dates from the time of the language reform at the age of enlightenment. At the beginning of the 19th century the majority of the citizens of Buda was German, so everybody spoke German and the public places had German names. The area of Pasarét was called Sauwiesen (“Pig’s meadow”) and Schmalzbergel (“Grease hill”). In 1844 Gábor Döbrentei made suggestions for the Hungarian names of 56 public places in Buda in the newspaper called Honderu and the general meeting of Buda accepted them on 11th June 1847. Beside Pasarét Csillebérc, Dobogókõ, Farkasrét, Huvösvölgy, Jánoshegy, Zuglilget got its name at that time. In the 1880s, at the beginning of Pasaréti street, where Vasas sports grounds can be found today, there was a coal and clay mine: Pasaréti street was built on behalf of the capital and the surrounding area was divided into parcels for villas. In a few decades, the well-known character of the quarter was formed; villas with gardens owned by the upper middle-class. Many artists, writers and scientists have been living here ever since.
Point 1: N47 30,8210' E19 0,1940' 154 m
1st part of the password: From the words on the two stone walls next to the statue of Wallenberg the one that is indicated twice. 'EG' in the coordinates of point 6 = the sum of the numbers in the year of setting up the statue. Then change the digits of this 2 digit number.
Raoul Wallenberg
He was born in Stockholm on 4th August 1912 and died probably in the prison of NKVD in Lubianka (Moscow). He was a Swedish diplomat. His parents were one of the wealthiest banker families of Sweden. He went to school in Stockholm and in 1935 he got a degree of architecture at the university of Michigan. On the request of the USA the Council of War Refugees working in Stockholm elaborated a plan to save the European Jews. In the framework of this plan he was sent to Budapest on 9th July 1944 to hinder the deportation of the Jews. By bribing, threatening, with false Swedish documents he set several hundred thousand people free from ghettos and death marches.
Point 2: N47 30,9060' E19 0,0650' 154 m
2nd part of the password: the first letter of the artist’s surname who made the monument of Áron Gábor.
Áron Gábor
He was born in Bereck (Transylvania) on 27th November 1814. He learned to be a joiner, then he became a soldier. In 1831 he joined the infantry regiment in Kézdivásárhely, then he got artillery practice in Gyulafehérvár and in 1845 he discharged. In Budapest and Vienna he listened to military technical lectures. In 1848 he lived in Moldavia. When he heard about the war of independence, he returned to Transylvania. By the autumn of 1848 the Austrian troops occupied Transylvania, at the end of November only Háromszék remained in Hungarian hands in Székely land. At the national assembly it came up on 12th November 1848 that Háromszék should capitulate, too, but Áron Gábor convinced them of persistence. He undertook to make cannons in two weeks and to make trial shootings in the market of Sepsiszentgyörgy. He cast his first cannons in Bodvaj with primitive home-made casting moulds, but on 27th November 1848, his trial shooting hit the target. Two days later the Austrian imperial troops led by general Puchner were defeated at the battle in Hídvég, with the help of the cannons. Owing to this, the fortune of war turned and at the beginning of 1849, with the leadership of Bem apó (Uncle Bem) the whole North-Transylvania got back to the Hungarians. The cannon casting was made by national cooperation, Áron Gábor cast 73 cannons in half a year. The raw material was mainly the bells of the Transylvanian churches as well as household copper and tin dishes, counterweights of wall-clocks. Lajos Kossuth appointed him to a major and the commander-in-chief of the Székely artillery. Áron Gábor was killed in a battle against the united Austrian and Russian troops at Uzon on 2nd July 1849, in which the Hungarians won. In 1892 a great monument was erected above his tomb in Eresztevény. In Hungary an iron foundry and machine-factory was named after him in the 1950s. His statue was set up in Bereck in 1992.
Point 3: N47°31,4550' E18 59,5940' 167 m
3rd part of the password: You can find the statue of the person, whose honour the church of Pasarét was built in, in the front hall of the building. Even when the inner doors are closed, the external doors are kept open, so the statue can be visited all day (of course, the external doors are also closed for the night). The third part of the password is the first letter of the lowest row (7 letters) of the text below the statue. In the coordinates of point 6 'AB' = the number of the external doors (the two-wing doors should be counted two)then multiply this number with 5 and add to the sum 1.
Pasaréti square
The Népszabadság newspaper initiated to choose the 7 wonders of Hungary at the end of 2006, when a committee of experts chose the 21 candidates from the candidates that had got the most votes. The architectural complex of Pasaréti square, the church and the bus terminal can be found among them. The Franciscans settled in Pasarét in 1929 and they started building a church a few years later. They commissioned Gyula Rimanóczy in 1931 and on the basis of his plans the construction of the building was completed in 1933-34. Gyula Rimanóczy is an architect awarded with the Ybl and Kossuth prizes, an outstanding representative of the Hungarian avantgarde architecture, the follower of the Bauhaus school. The square and the bus terminal were renewed in 2002. The Matteo restaurant, which can be found in the building, has got the prize of the best restaurant of Budapest several times. A traffic circus was built on the square, with the statue of Virgin Mary in the middle.
Point 4: N47 31,2520' E18 59,9610' 164 m
The 6th password for huns, search for the placing year number. 'F' is the second digit of the year number.
László Németh
He was born in Nagybánya, on 18th April 1901, lived and worked in Pasarét and died on 3rd March 1975. He was a writer awarded with the Kossuth prize. He won the short-story competition invited by Nyugat journal. He wrote a lot of novels, he belonged to the peasant writers with József Erdélyi, Gyula Illyés, János Kodolányi and Lõrinc Szabó. He started a paper with the title Tanú (Witness), he was the co-worker of several journals. In 1951 he translated Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. His main works are: Dread, Eszter Égetõ, Bolyai, Gallilei.
After the walk, if you’re hungry, you can visit Lugas Restaurant at 77 Szilágyi Erzsébet alley, which has been a popular restaurant for a long time.
Point 5 N47 31,4280' E18 59,8230' 183 m
5th part of the password: the first letter of the surname of the artist making the relief of Imre Nagy. In the coordinates of point 6 'CD' = the house number multiplied with 2 and changed the digits.
Imre Nagy
He was born in Kaposvár, on 7th June 1896 and was executed in Budapest on 16th June 1958. He was a politician, a prime minister and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Science. He completed 8 classes of elementary school, and then he got a two-year training as a journeyman of engine fitter. Later he joined a higher commercial school, which he couldn’t complete as in the May of 1915 he was called in for military service. In 1918 he was taken prisoner of war by the Russians. He joined the Red Army and the Bolshevik party. He returned to Hungary in 1921. In 1925 he joined the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party. Until 1927 he spent 3 years in prison during 6 years. Between 1930 and 1944 he lived in the Sovietunion, he was a co-worker of the Comintern and a Soviet citizen. He was an agent of NKVD under the code-name Volodia, and on the basis of his reports 13 people were condemned to death. From December of 1944 he was the minister of agriculture, in 1945 the minister of home affairs, then the minister of food. In August of 1949 he was expelled from the party, after this he became the rector of the University of Agricultural Sciences. From 1950 he was the minister of agriculture again. From 4th July 1953 he was the prime minister, his government gave up the policy of forced industrial development. In May 1955 he was expelled from the party again, then he got more active from the beginning of the political changes in the summer of 1956. On 24th October 1956 until 4th November he was the prime minister once more. He took his stand on introducing the multi-party system, announced quitting the Warsaw Treaty. When The Soviet troops marched in, he got shelter at the Embassy of Yugoslavia, from where he was kidnapped on 21st November and he and his family were kept under arrest in Snagova (Rumania) until April 1957. From here he was transported to Hungary and on 15th June 1958 he was condemned to death together with Pál Maléter, József Szilágyi, Miklós Gimes and Géza Losonczy. Later his body was exhumed and was solemnly re-buried on 16th June 1989. On the day of János Kádár’s death, on 6th July 1989 he was rehabilitated by the Supreme Court. The sculptor Tamás Varga set up his monument next to Kossuth square. He lived in Pasarét for 7 years. In 1958 the house was taken from the family and the Austrian military attaché lived there until 1990. Today the Imre Nagy House of the Hungarian Academy of Science can be visited by appointment in advance.
Point 6: N47°AB,CDB; E18°EF,EGF; h=BDC m.
4th part of the password: It’s in the cache hidden at the memorial building of Béla Bartók (you don’t need to go inside the fence to find it). There’s an alternative cache on the back of the opposite bench. In the coordinates of point 6 “E” = the last digit of the house number. The cache is a plastic box of 18x11x7 cm.
Béla Bartók
He was born in Nagyszentmiklós on 25th March 1881 and died in New York on 26th September 1945. He was a composer, pianist, musicologist, the member of the Hungarian Academy of Science. His father was a headmaster, his mother was a pianist and a teacher. From 1892 he learned at Ferenc Erkel’s son László Erkel in Pozsony for four years, then he finished the Academy of Music in Budapest in 1903. The Hungarian folk music had a great influence on his career, with Kodály’s help he carried on a decade’s folk music collecting work in Hungary, Transylvania, Slovakia and North-Africa. He composed music for theatrical works like the Wooden Prince, the Duke of Bluebeard’s Castle, the Miraculous Mandarin. Between the two world wars he travelled all over the world, he became a well-known performer and composer of the time. During his stay in Hungary between 1932-40 he lived in his house in Pasarét, after this he escaped to the USA from the fascism with his wife and he died there. Some of his most important works: Kossuth symphony, Cantata profana, string-quartets, piano concertos, violin concertos, the Concerto, the violin sonata written for Yehudi Menuhin. The memorial house is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day except for Monday, and there are concerts almost every week.
The complete password: the passwords formed at points 1-6 written one after the other, without space.
If you have some more time, you can visit 79 Szilágyi Erzsébet alley. László Németh lived here; his statue is standing near 13 Pasaréti street, next to Vasas SC.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ng cbvag 6 gel gb frnepu arne gur jnyy.