- Condition: MNH (**)
- Year: 2012
- Catalogue: Scott / Michel
- Number(s): 4227-28 / 5547-48
- Catalog value: 4,5 $ / 3,6 €
- Internal ID: 011_15
- Size: 40 x 30 mm
- Categories: Health Tourism - Spas II.
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Health Tourism - Spas II
Date of issue: 22 March 2012
Magyar Posta is expanding its regular stamp series Health
Tourism – Spas with two new denominations. The philatelic
novelties depict characteristic interior and exterior details of
Budapest’s Király and Rudas Baths. The graphics of the first
day covers and the postmarks are decorated with compositions
related to the baths. The stamps were made by printing company
Pénzjegynyomda using artistic photographs by József Hajdú and
designs by the graphic artist Ferenc Svindt.
The construction of the Király Baths (Budapest, District II,
Fő u. 84) was started by Arslan, the Pasha of Buda, in 1565,
and completed by his successor Sokoli Mustafa. It did not and does
not have its own direct supply of thermal water as the Turks built
the baths some distance from the springs within the city walls to
ensure bathing could continue in the event of a siege. The water
was fed from the neighbourhood of the Lukács Baths, as it still is
today. A century after the end of Turkish rule, the baths came into
the ownership of the König family in 1796, who rebuilt it to its
present form, combining the old with the new while preserving its
original character. The name of the König family in Hungarian
(király), which means king, was adopted by the baths. The baths,
which were damaged in the Second World War, were fully restored in
1950. There are 4 pools for public use. The thermal water contains
sodium, calcium, magnesium, hydrocarbonate and sulphate chloride,
and also has high fluoride ion content. It is recommended for the
treatment of degenerative joint diseases, chronic and subacute
arthritis, discus hernia, spinal deformity, neuralgia, skeletal
calcium deficiency and postaccident rehabilitation.
The construction of the Rudas Baths (Budapest, District I,
Döbrentei tér 9) between 1566 and 1572 is associated with the name
of the pasha of Buda Sokoli Mustafa. It was an Ilige style bath,
which used thermal water. The heart of the baths is the Turkish
eight-columned hall with an octagonal pool. The columns support a
semispherical dome, which lets light into the building. The dome
hall has a square floor plan with semidomes in each corner and
stalactite vaults beneath them, which are tiered and typical of
Turkish architecture. In the Turkish era it was known as the
green-columned baths, which archaeologists believe was named after
a green column which is no longer extant. There are several
explanations of its current name. One is that it was named after
the pole (rúd in Hungarian) to which the ferry on the Danube
moored, while others think that it is derived from the name the
Serbs living in the neighbourhood used for the Baths, Rudna Ilige,
meaning mineral baths. The building was greatly affected by the
reconstruction works started in 2004. Today there are six steam
pools and a swimming pool for visitors seeking relaxation and
recovery. The radioactive thermal water contains sodium, calcium,
magnesium, hydrocarbonate and sulphate, and also has high fluoride
ion content. It is recommended for the treatment of degenerative
joint diseases, chronic and subacute arthritis, discus hernia,
neuralgia and skeletal calcium deficiency. (Source:
budapestgyogyfurdoi.hu)
TECHNICAL CARACTERISTICS
Order code: 2012022050231 (set) 2012022060032 (Király FDC)
2012022060132 (Rudas FDC)
Date of issue: 22 March 2012
Face value: HUF 495
Number of copies issued dependent on demand
Perforated size: 40 x 30 mm (50 stamps/sheet)
Printed by Pénzjegynyomda
Photo by József Hajdú
Designed by Ferenc Svindt
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