Laszlo Szekely buildings Masterpost

    Yesterday I was walking through the cemetery in my neighbourhood and I accidentally saw the tomb of Laslo Szekely, a lucrative architect that worked on Timișoara.
    I was curious to see just how many buildings he planned and I could find bits here and there, but not an exhaustive list, especially not with good images. So I decided to make a Masterpost myself with everything I could find. If you know of any others, or the stories behind them, please participate by writing in!
    These first two I find the most interesting:

Eerie!

Communal Slaughterhouse - Abatorul comunal

Built in 1905, limited activity in 1989, abolished in 1992. Damaged by disrepair and demolitions.

Hydroelectric Waterworks Plant - Uzina de apă

Motor room

Built in 1910, the motor room contains Ganz turbines with 600 H.P. It was made for powering the tram service, public lighting and industry, and it is still functional today.

Buildings in the central square Corso (Piața Victoriei):

(more or less in chronological order because I couldn't find the dates for two of them)

Corso means "avenue" or "a social promenade" in Italian. Present in some Mediterranean countries. This is a clue to the Italian influence on the city.

Neuhausz Palace - Palatul Neuhausz

Built in 1911-1912 on Corso Boulevard.

Weiss Palace - Palatul Weiss

Built in 1912, the palace was designed by the Arnold Merbl Co., and only the gable was designed by Laszlo Szekely. The Weiss family had several famous doctors and industrialists in Timişoara, and renting apartments in this building was a profitable enterprise for them.

Dauerbach Palace - Palatul Dauerbach

Built in 1912-1913.

Hilt & Vogel Palace - Palatul Hilt & Vogel

Built in 1912-1913 in Art Nouveau style.

Szechenyi Palace - Palatul Szechenyi

Built in 1900-1914 by the Szechenyi Society.

Chamber of Commerce Industry and Agriculture Timis - Camera de Comerț și Industrie

Hotel Timișoara - Pension Central

Other buildings:

Roman Catholic High School Gerhardinum (Piarist High School) - Liceul Piarist

Brück House - Casa Brück

Built 1910, Art-Nouveau and Secession style, eclectic character. Restored in 2012.

City Asylum Fund Palace - Palatul Fondului Azilului Orășenesc (Palatul Ştefania)

Built in 1908 in Fabric neighbourhood.

Fabric Turkish Bathhouse - Baia Publică Neptun

Built 1913-1914

Virgin Mary Monument - Statuia Sfânta Maria din Piața Maria

Built in 1906 on the place where Gheorghe Doja was publicly executed for leading a peasants' revolt against the kingdom's landed nobility, and is now considered a martyr. The execution was performed by sitting the condemned on a smouldering hot iron throne, wearing a heated crown and sceptre, mocking his ambition to be king.

Hungarian Credit Bank - Banca Generală Maghiară de Credit

Emmer House - Casa Emmer

Built in 1908 in Art Nouveau style.

Forestry High School - Liceul Silvic

Built in 1908.

Firefighters barracks in Iosefvaros - Cazarma Pompierilor din Iosefin (sediul Detașamentul 2 de Pompieri Timișoara)

Built in 1906, costing 84.000 crowns, the equivalent of 25kg of gold. The watchtower could oversee the entire western part of the city: Josephstadt/Iosefin, Elisabethstadt/Elisabetin, Franzstadt/Mehala.

Israelite boarding school in Timisoara - Liceul Israelit din Timișoara

The Stocking Factory - Fabrica de Ciorapi pre-2015

This tower is what is left of the stocking factory after it was demolished in 2015 to build a Kaufland supermarket in it's place

Fabric Orthodox Romanian Church - Biserica ortodoxă română din Fabric

Houses for his family:

The Palace of the widow Szekely - Palatul văduvei Szekely

Built in 1911 in Viennese Secession style with minimalistic modern character for his mother, Jujana Szekely (born. Mados). She was the president of the Reunion of Reformed Evangelical Women in Timisoara.

Karoly Kiss Palace - Palatul Karoly Kiss

Karoly Kiss House - Casa Karoly Kiss

Both were built in 1911 for Karoly Kiss, the urbanistic engineer which was also Laszlo's brother-in-law. On Splaiul Nistrului.

Serbian Orthodox episcopal palace in Timisoara - Palatul episcopal sârb din Timişoara

He also planned the second floor of this building above in 1905-1906, on top of the old one-story byzantine base (from 1745-1747). The ornaments on this building facade were covered with cement during the communist period and were renovated in 2014, discovering that 35 different pattern moulds needed to be used to remake the old ornaments underneath.

In other cities and towns:

Salonta Town Hall - Primăria Salonta

Salonta State High School - Liceul superior de stat Salonta

Slaughterhouse of Becicherecul Mare - Abatorul din Becicherecul Mare

Knitting factory in Gyula - Fabrică de tricotaje din Gyula

Vršac Orthodox Serbian bishopric - Palatul episcopiei ortodoxe sârbe din Vârșeț

Sources: Wikipedia, Heritageoftimisoara, Welcometoromania, Szekely Laszlo (album trilingv - maghiară, română, engleză). Editura Erdelyi Hírado, Cluj, 2002, Delesega Gyula - Temesvari Kalauz, Editura Marineasa, Timișoara, 2003, ISBN 973-631-047-7.