Ferenc Schmidl's Residence

On the northern section of the route stands the family home built by Ferenc Schmidl for himself between 1936 and 1938—a two-story modern villa whose street facade is adorned with a statue of Saint Joseph and the Child Jesus by Béla Ohmann.

Across the street stands the Neo-Baroque house built by Ferenc Schmidl for Rezső Barót, director of the commercial school, and the attorney Ábrahám Pattantyús. Ferenc Schmidl (1902–1977) was a defining architectural figure in Székesfehérvár. His father was a master chimney sweep and also the president of the local Industrial Guild. From 1926, Schmidl worked as a municipal engineer, and from 1932 he served as the head of the city's Engineering Office and as a technical advisor. It was him who invited the architect Dr. Iván Kotsis to Fehérvár, and Kotsis later invited him to lecture at the university in the late 1940s. In 1977, Schmidl received the Ybl Prize for his life's work and educational activities.