Kiscelli Museum (Schmidt Mansion)

Budapest · Ungern · Museum

Mágnás Elza was found in a trunk in the Danube in 1914. Legend says she returned to her lover's mansion on the Óbuda hill. Her killer was never punished.

The building on Kiscelli hill was first a Trinitarian monastery, then a military hospital, and finally the private mansion of the furniture magnate Miksa Schmidt. His mistress was Emília Turcsányi, known across Budapest as Mágnás Elza — the queen of the city's finest night establishments. In January 1914 she was brutally murdered, and her body was recovered folded into a trunk in the Danube. The legend that survives in Óbuda says Elza never left the house where she was happiest: visitors to the old crypt and the nave of the monastery church describe perfume in an empty hall, the sound of heeled shoes on the stone floor, and doors that swing shut behind them. The museum makes no secret of it and runs its own crypt walks by torchlight. The crypt is cold all year round.

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Hvor ligger Kiscelli Museum (Schmidt Mansion)?

Kiscelli Museum (Schmidt Mansion) ligger i Budapest, Ungern.