Sashegy
Sashegy is a hill and neighbourhood in Budapest, Hungary. It is a green, upper-middle-class area in Buda with expensive family homes. Administratively Sashegy is divided between the 11th and the 12th districts of Budapest.
[Image:Sashegy-from-Gellerthegy.jpg|thumb|400px|View to Sashegy from Gellérthegy]
Maps
- The streets on Google Maps
- Near view on Google
Name
The present-day name was given to the hill in 1847 when the geographical features of the Buda Hills were renamed under the initiative of Hungarian philologist Gábor Döbrentei. Sashegy is the translation of the former German name, Adlerberg. According to a popular legend a parade was held on 2 September 1686 by the victorious Christian armies after capturing Buda Castle from the Ottoman Turks. During the parade eagles flew from the hill nearby towards the castle.Medieval Hungarian names were also recorded. At first the hill was called Királyhegy in the 13th century because Hungarian kings usually took a rest here during hunting trips. Later it became a church property under the names Paphegy, Baráthegy or Istenhegy. The Ottomans called the hill Muhanek in the 16th and 17th century.
History
After the Ottoman occupation vineyards were planted on the lower slopes of the hill. German colonists played an important part in the rebirth of viticulture in the Buda Hills. During the 18th–19th centuries Adlerberg, as it was then called, was part of the Buda-Sashegy Wine Region. According to the 1789 land register of Buda the vineyards on Adlerberg covered. The Buda-Sashegyi Kadarka wine, made from Black Kadarka, earned a reputation throughout Europe. The vineyards of Sashegy were destroyed in 1890 by phylloxera. After the plague viticulture was supplanted by the production of stone fruit. The lower slopes were planted with orchards, mainly peach-trees, while the rocky upper areas of the hill remained barren at all times.At the beginning of the 20th century, a military complex was built at the foot of the hill. The first great building on the hill itself was the college of the Congregation of Notre Dame de Sion, established in 1930. Suburbanization only began in the 1940s and 1950s when family homes were built in place of the old orchards. In 1944 concrete bunkers were built on the top of the hill, and many new villas were destroyed during the siege of Budapest in 1944–45. The present stock of houses mainly comes from the last decades of the 20th century. The natural upper areas were preserved with the establishment of the nature reserve in 1958. According to the 1990 census Sashegy had 9030 inhabitants.
Streets
The process of suburbanization was accelerated by designation of new streets across the neighbourhood. The main roads around foot of the hill followed much older pathways like the old Sashegyi út which connected the valley under Gellért Hill with Farkasrét.The majority of the new streets were established in the period between 1928 and 1941. The most important among them was Miasszonyunk útja, leading towards the college, in 1930.