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Vérmező
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The Vérmező is a park in Budapest at the I. District of Krisztinaváros. Here Martinovics of Ignatius and his companions in the decapitation of the 20th of May 1795. The park stretches from the western foot of Castle Hill Attila the road, the Boulevard and Miko Christina Street bounded. Below it crosses the Devil's ditch; Vérmező the area of the Pleistocene was established as the alluvial plains of the stream. The defendants in the execution of the conspiracy Martinovics (water color, 1795) In the 14th century the Logod village were, lying in this place, which was destroyed during the Turkish occupation. After the Turks were driven out of the area called glacis, or the sequence of providing protection for the area was flat. In 1752 just a gun shot away from the castle wall a protection zone has been designated for military, therefore, up to 18 end of this century were not allowed to incorporate. In 1769, the War Council authorization of the glacis areas were those who committed them to the construction of the buildings, however, the owners were obliged to destroy the buildings. In such circumstances, however, no one wanted to build, so the area remained undeveloped. In 1784 the Governor of the glacis's, where land ended and free for those who wanted to build. These houses are no longer related to the military administration. Later, the reeve of Vérmező were used as a scyte field, so at that time the area was called Generalate meadow. It was named of Martinovics Ignatius, and others here in the 1795th were in the execution on 20th of May, at the Moscow square's end side of the Vérmező he got a monument. The area for the first time around 1820 were gardening. Later used as a military parade. In 1896, the occasion of the millennium, and in 1934, Miklós Horthy, the occasion of 15 years of marching in a military dress parade and the grand festival was held in the field. Between the two World Wars was also horses here. It is interesting that there was in 1931 Biatorbágy funeral train attack victims. The fact is well known that in 1930 the late Protestant garrison church, a few years later a statue was designed by Gyula Gombos in the northern part. Because of the war and then none of them materialized. Budapest II. World War II siege of that was the last area where they could easily courier aircraft to land. For this reason, the end of the war, dozens of shot-up aircraft wrecks lay scattered about the area. After World War II from the western part for the Sout
