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The medieval building of the Church of Our Lady in Buda
was converted to be the coronation church between 1872-96,
with the design and guidance of Frigyes Schulek, student
of Friedrich Schmidt from Vienna. The story of the building
model, prepared during the construction, sheds light on the
design process. The model was created in the sculptor?s work
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shop of the construction office from 1877-1884, undergoing
several conversions just for the purpose of testing the different
design versions. This work was carried out in parallel with the
construction until 1884. From analysing the resources, it could
be concluded that Schulek designed the facade with two towers
of different sizes: a lower neo-Romanesque north tower and
another one reconstructed from the existing south tower. In
this design, Imre Henszlmann, the instructor of the Temporary
Committee of Monuments, played a major role; in his expert
report, published in 1874, he suggested building the towers
following the supposed invention of the first builders. Schulek
realized this suggestion on the model. Although he had submit
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ted the plan with two different towers to a design judgement,
the discussion never took place, since the minister, Ágoston
Trefort, withdrew the construction of the neo-Romanesque
north tower from the building programme in 1884, referring to
financial difficulties. So this design stage was only discovered
during the research of the model.
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