Storytelling Bus Stops - Csomay-site

In Veszprém, the development of suburban residential areas started at the end of the 19th century, typically financed by private investors, with the Officials' Quarter in Budapest's District VIII serving as a model. In Veszprém, the House-building Society was founded in 1889 by master builder Kálmán Csomay Sr. In 1889, the Veszprém Building Company was founded in 1889 by master builder Kálmán Csomay, brick and cement manufacturer Ignác Ábeles and grain merchant Emil Stern. The construction of the first officers' quarters was started by  Kálmán Csomay Sr began on the plot of land next to the central railway station (today Budapest, Rózsa, Diófa, Balaton and Viola streets), on which he built comfortable family houses for his own employees and railway workers, which is why it was once called Csomay or Brother-in-Law Quarters. From 1910, Ignác Ábeles and Emil Stern parcelled out plots of land in the area adjacent to Csomay's, behind the site of the civil school (now Kossuth School), and by the end of the 1930s the officials' quarter (present-day Ady Endre Street), consisting of 32 houses, was built here.

Members of the Csomay family were key figures in the construction industry of Veszprém. Their excellent craftsmanship, their open-minded approach to innovation and their sense of proportion are praised by the emblematic buildings of the town: County Hall, Petőfi Theatre, the Lutheran Church in Kossuth Street, the houses of Diófa Street and Újtelep, as well as the nationwide famous reinforced concrete fences.