The traditionally working-class neighbourhood went through a process of gentrification due to the office-building boom of the 1990s.
Angyalföld is located in the northern part of Pest, between the Danube and the railway lines.
Most probable it relates to the Engl family, originally from South Tirol.
The name Engl can be found in the register of population of the outskirts of Terézváros, drawn up during the census of the 1770s.
It had a narrower meaning because the names of three smaller neighbourhoods (Erdőtelkek, Felsőbikarét, Lőportárdűlő) were not revived after 1990.