Kristály Hotel
and Restaurant
Mater
Szarka the innkeeper ventured new enterprise at the end of the 1760s: he
leased the building that was just finished by Jakab Fellner, the manor's
noted architect. The new inn was situated in a good place: not far from
the main square, where the traffic of five streets collected, at the junction
of the Old and Budai streets, where a lane towards the springs and the
far vineyards began.
Besides the local craftsmen and farmers, more and more guests came from
remote towns.
In 1803, the language reformer poet Ferenc Kazinczy had to stop here because
of an illness. In 1809, Sándor Kisfaludy (a poet again!) was dwelling here
together with the other members of the Kaiser's Guard. In the first half
of the 19th century, a number of Hungarian celebrities were among the inn's
guests, namely Mihály Vörösmarty, József Bajza, Mór Perzel. During the
1948-49 revolution and war of independence, the soldiers of Komárom's castle
often came here to wet their whistles until captain György Klapka forbade
his officers sneaking out here from the besieged catle...
The walls of the old hotel and resturant remind us of famous innkeepers,
renowned gipsy musicians, noisygroups of tourists from the capital, and
succesful (or scandalous) theatrical performances...
